religious studies specialist

Our task will be to interrogate these various theoretical positions, typically put forth by anthropologists and religious studies specialists, and to investigate the ways in which the visual constructs and negotiates different ideological positions.

"A lot of people think nothing but polygamy" when they hear of the Mormons, said Rodney Stark, a religious studies specialist at Baylor University in Texas, even though that practice has been outlawed by the church for more than a century.