CURRICULUM VITAE
George V. Campbell
George V. ("Van") Campbell, Ph.D.
128 Garden Avenue
Grove City, PA 16127
(724) 458-0101
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Associate Professor of Sociology and Religion
Grove City College, 100 Campus Drive, Box 3089
Grove City, PA 16127-2104
(724) 458-3319; gvcampbell@gcc.edu
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born:
Reared:
Marital Status:
Children
Health:
April 15, 1953, Jackson, TN
Huntsville, AL (1957-71); lived in Panama Canal Zone, January, 1971-August, 1973
Married Karen P. Underwood, April 24, 1976
Derek, born July 31, 1982; Joanna, born July 4, 1984
Excellent
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Date
Institution
Degree
1999
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Ph.D., Religious Studies; focus in Sociology of Religion
Dissertation Advisor: Professor Roland Robertson, now
of the University of Aberdeen (Sociology Department)
Dissertation: "The Relativization of Tradition: A Study of
‘The Evangelical Post-Conservative Controversy’ in
Contemporary American Evangelical Protestantism."
1988
Indiana University of PA
Indiana, PA
One semester Psy.D. counseling course in Family Therapy
1981
Dallas Theological Seminary Th.M. (Master of Theology)
Dallas, TX
Hebrew, Semitics and Old Testament Studies, and Greek
1975
Bryan College
Dayton, TN
B.S. Double Major: Business Administration and Natural
Science
1971
Balboa High School
Panama Canal Zone
High School Diploma
PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION
September, 2008 to Present
Professor of Sociology and Religion
Grove City College, Grove City, PA
September, 2005- August, 2008
Associate Professor of Sociology and Religion
Grove City College, Grove City, PA
September, 2000-August, 2005
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Religion
Grove City College, Grove City, PA
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September, 1999-May, 2000
Temporary Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Indiana University of PA, Indiana, PA
April, 1985-August, 2000
Pastor
Calvary Evangelical Free Church, Indiana, PA
November, 1984-April, 1985
Interim Pastor
Stamps Presbyterian Church, Stamps, AR
August, 1981-August, 1984
Pastor
Grace Bible Church, Homer, LA
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PUBLICATIONS
Biblical Foundations for Christian Leaders (Victoriya Printers, Chennai (Madras), India (June, 2008).
“Refusing God’s Blessing: An Exposition of Genesis 11:27-32,” Bibliotheca Sacra 165 (July, 2008):
268-82 (a refereed journal).
“Religion and the Phases of Globalization,” pp. 281-302 in Religion, Globalization and Culture, Peter
Beyer and Lori Beaman, eds. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2007).
“Running Ahead of God: An Exposition of Genesis 16,” Bibliotheca Sacra 163 (July, 2006): 276-91 (a
refereed journal).
Author of, Everything You Know Seems Wrong: Globalization and the Relativizing of Tradition
(University Press of America, 2005).
Book description: A potent cause of the current cultural conflicts, and of the periodic recurrence of such
conflicts is an effect of pluralism and globalization called the "relativizing of tradition," largely
unexplored until now. Everything You Know Seems Wrong elucidates this process and discusses how it
undermines established beliefs and traditions. The book examines the sense of threat and insecurity that
"relativizing of tradition" produces and the range of reactions it generates, including conflict within
individuals, movements, and cultures. The book examines in depth the contemporary effects of the
process in America's first faith, Evangelical Protestantism, and then looks at the likely effects of the
process in the global future.
Wadsworth's Sociology Online Resources and Writing Companion for Kendall's Sociology in Our
Times, 5th edition. 2005. With Michele Adams, David J. Ayers, George Van Pelt Campbell.
Thomson/Wadsworth. ISBN: 0-534-62637-8.
"Religion and Culture: Challenges and Prospects in the Next Generation," Journal of the Evangelical
Theological Society June, 2000 (a refereed journal).
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Taught “Biblical Foundations for Christian Leaders” course to 60 poor Christian Leaders in Chennai
(Madras), India, January 7-12, 2008 (equivalent to ¾ of an Intersession course).
Participant in National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, June 25-July 13, 2007, at The
Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, entitled, “Teaching the
Reformation in a Pluralist Age.”
Participant in Scholars’ Seminar at Calvin College, “Taste and See that the Lord is Good: Liturgical
Participation and the Dynamics of Happiness,” July 10-28, 2006, led by Dr. Ellen Charry, Margaret W.
Harmon Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary.
Interviewed in the Croatian publication Epoha: Journal for Cultural Communication, for the September,
2006, edition devoted to globalization, Elia Pekica Pagon, editor (www.epoha.net).
I presented a professional paper entitled, “The Effects of Globalization on Religion” at the 2005 Pruit
Memorial Symposium Conference “Global Christianity: Challenging Modernity and the West,”
sponsored by Baylor University in Waco, TX on November 12, 2005.
I presented a professional paper entitled, “Everything You Know Seems Wrong: How Globalization
Undermines Moral Consensus,” at the National Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of
Religion, San Francisco, CA, August 14, 2004.
Participant in Scholars' Seminar at Calvin College, "Morality, Culture, and the Power of Religion in
Social Life," funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, June 25 - July 27, 2001, led by Dr. Christian Smith,
then Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, currently Professor of
Sociology, Notre Dame University.
I presented a professional paper entitled, "Religion and Culture: Challenges and Prospects in the
Next Twenty Years," at the National Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Orlando,
FL, November 19, 1998.
I presented a professional paper entitled, "The Future of Religion: Secularization and
Sacralization in the Modern World (A Study of the Secularization Thesis)," April 7, 1995, at the
Eastern Regional Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Phoenixville, PA.
I presented a professional paper entitled "Social Forces Behind the 'New Christian Right'," Nov.
9, 1993, at the National Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Washington, DC.
I presented a professional paper entitled, "A Literary Approach to Ezra-Nehemiah: Structure,
Themes, Theology," on April 6, 1990, to the Eastern Region Annual Meeting of the Evangelical
Theological Society in Hatfield, PA.
I presented a professional paper entitled, "Nehemiah 7: A Study in Exegesis of Genealogies and
Lists," on March 4, 1983 to the Southwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in
Longview, TX.
Founder and Chair, “Religion and Culture Study Group,” Evangelical Theological Society (1998-2001).
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George V. Campbell
Listed in Who’s Who in America, 2006 edition (60th edition).
Listed in Who’s Who in America, 2005 edition (59th edition).
Listed in Who’s Who in America, 2004 edition (58th edition).
Listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2002 edition.
I am a member of the Association for the Sociology of Religion.
I am a member of the Evangelical Theological Society (since 1977).
REFERENCES
Dr. Paul R. Schaefer
Chair, Department of Religion
Professor of Religion
Grove City College
100 Campus Drive, Box 3080
Grove City, PA 16127
724-458-2202
prschaefer@gcc.edu
Chair of my second Department
Ordained in the Presbyterian Church of America
Dr. David Ayers
Assistant Dean, Calderwood School
of Arts and Letters
Chair, Department of Sociology
Professor of Sociology
Grove City College
100 Campus Drive, Box 2594
Grove City, PA 16127
Office: (724) 458-2010
djayers@gcc.edu
Chair of my primary Department
Dr. Eugene Merrill
Dallas Theological Seminary
3909 Swiss Avenue
Dallas, TX 75204
EMerrill@dts.edu
Personal friend; my Th.M. Thesis advisor
Professor of Semitics and Old Testament Studies
Dallas Theological Seminary
(214) 824-3094
Professor Roland Robertson
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Edward Wright Building
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3QY
Scotland UK
Dissertation Advisor
Until May, 1999:
Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology
Professor of Religious Studies
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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George V. Campbell
Office: Tel +44 (0)1224 273429
Home phone: +44 1224 634809
Messages: +44 (0)1224 272760 & 272729
r.robertson@abdn.ac.uk
University of Aberdeen: +44 (0)1224 272000
Department of Sociology: +44 (0)1224-272760
Http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sociology/roland.htm
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