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RICHARD AMESBURY
Associate Professor of Ethics;
Associate Professor of Religion (CGU)
On Sabbatical Leave: 2009-2010
(Dr. Amesbury is spending the spring semester of his sabbatical at University of Zürich.)
Office: Craig 213
Phone: (909) 447-2581
Email: ramesbury@cst.edu
Personal Web Site
Dr. Amesbury works at the intersection of ethics, political theory,
and philosophy of religion. His current research and teaching interests include the
relation between religion and human rights; the place of religion in liberal democracies;
theories of secularization; the ethics of belief and citizenship; the philosophy of
Ludwig Wittgenstein; the implications of religious plurality; and the construction of
"religion" as a category.
EDUCATION
A.B., Harvard University
Diploma in Theology, Oxford University
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
RECENT PUBLICATIONS / ACHIEVEMENTS
Faith and Human Rights: Christianity and the Global
Struggle for Human Dignity (Fortress, 2008)
Morality and Social Criticism: The Force of Reasons in
Discursive Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
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