Description: Dan Wells (Ph.D., Florida State University) is a scholar of religion in America and a Methodist pastor. Dan is currently consulting faculty at Duke Divinity School, where he teaches hybrid residential and online courses in American religious history. In addition to his academic work, Dan is the pastor of Dresden Church located in the Appalachian region…
Scholar of Religion in America
Faculty Profile About Dan Wells (Ph.D., Florida State University) is the Senior Researcher and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Everything Happens Project , Duke Divinity School, where he teaches courses on the prosperity gospel in American religious history.
Dan also researches the relationship between religion, politics, and race in the United States. His research and writing analyzes networks of white supremacy in American religious conservatism. He also focuses on the use of aesthetics, theory, and method in the study of religion. He teaches courses on religion, race, and ethnicity, and religion in the Americas.