About
Dr. Borchert is a Lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro having received his PhD from Syracuse University in 2021. He is interested in how religious practices and media technologies intersect across American religious histories, particularly their impact on embodiment and death. He teaches on American religion, religion and embodiment, death, Christianities, and religion and media/technology.
John is Co-Chair of the Religion and Media Workshop of the American Academy of Religion, and serves on the board of the
gamevironments, the only journal on religion and video gaming.
You can follow him on Twitter
@JohnWBorchertEducation
PhD Religion – Syracuse University, 2021
MPhil Religion – Syracuse University, 2016
MA Religion – Syracuse University, 2013
BA Philosophy and Religion – Ithaca College, 2009 Work Shared in CORE
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PUBLICATIONS
“Religion” co-authored with Gregory P. Grieve in
Digital Religion 2.0, ed. Heidi Campbell, (New York: Routledge 2020). forthcoming
Editor,
Gamevironments special issue “Video Gaming and Post Mortality”, 9:1, 2018
https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/current-papers-and-archive/
Review
, Internet Afterlife: Virtual Salvation in the 21st Century, Kevin O’Neill. In Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, 7:1, 2018
INVITED POSTS
Approaching Digital Religion through Pedagogy and Posthumanism, Media Commons, September 2017,
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/question/how-does-digital-intersect-spiritualityreligion-how-have-digitalvirtual-technologies-broa-3
Contemporary Urban Necro-Politics and Ritual Negotiation, Material Religions, October 2016,
http://materialreligions.blogspot.com/2016/10/contemporary-urban-necro-politics-and.htmlMemberships
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Board Member, International Academy for the Study of Gaming and Religions 2018-
Editorial Board, gamevironments¸2018-
Editorial Assistant, Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture (Brill) 2018-
Steering Committee, Religion & Media Workshop, AAR 2018-
Steering Committee, Death, Dying & Beyond Unit, AAR 2018-
