Professors Hillary Rodrigues and Tom Robinson have been colleagues for three decades. Over this time, they have team-taught the World Religions course to thousands of students. They have taken a special interest in how to tailor religious studies courses for an increasingly digitally comfortable audience. This has led to the development of a range of digital resources designed to help students engage in the religious environment around them in a critically nuanced and balanced way.
Rodrigues and Robinson did their Ph.D. studies at McMaster University, with Rodrigues specializing in Eastern Religions and Robinson in Western Religions. They have spent most of their teaching careers in the Religious Studies Department of the University of Lethbridge, in Alberta, Canada. Both have published widely in their fields.
BOOKS BY PROFESSOR RODRIGUES
2025 The Supreme Refuge, Vol.1: Durgā’s Transformation into the Hindu Great Goddess. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
2025 Introducing Hinduism, 3rd. ed. London and New York: Routledge Publishers.
2022 World Religions: a guide to the essentials. (with Tom Robinson); (additional chapters by James Linville and John Harding). 3rd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
2018 Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navarātri Festival in South Asia. Caleb Simmons, Moumita Sen, and Hillary Rodrigues, eds. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2018.
2016 Hinduism – the eBook 2nd Edition. Journal of Buddhist Ethics Online Books.
2013 The Study of Religion: A Reader, J. S. Harding and H. Rodrigues, eds. New York and London: Routledge.
2011 Studying Hinduism in Practice. H. Rodrigues, ed. London and New York: Routledge Publishers.
2009 Introduction to The Study of Religion (with John S. Harding). London and New York: Routledge Publishers.
2003 Ritual Worship of the Great Goddess: The Liturgy of the Durgā Pūjā with Interpretations. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
2001 Krishnamurti’s Insight: An Examination of his Teachings on the Nature of Mind and Religion. Varanasi: Pilgrims Publishing.
Rodrigues is currently completing the second volume of his comprehensive study of the Hindu goddess Durga (to be published by SUNY Press) and researching the configurations of the modern nondual spirituality movement.
BOOKS BY PROFESSOR ROBINSON
2025 Revisiting the God-fearer Thesis in the Development of Early Christianity. Library of New Testament Studies 713. London: T&TClark / Bloomsbury.
2022 World Religions: a guide to the essentials. (with Hillary Rodrigues) (additional chapters by James Linville and John Harding). 3rd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
2017 Who Were the First Christians? Dismantling the Urban Thesis. New York: Oxford University Press.
2016 Preacher Girl: Uldine Utley and the Industry of Revival. Waco TX: Baylor University Press.
2013 / 2004 Early Christian Reader. (with Steve Mason). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson). Reprint: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013.
2012 “Out of the Mouths of Babes”: Girls Evangelists in the Flapper Era. (with Lanette Ruff). New York: Oxford University Press.
2009 Ignatius of Antioch and the Parting of the Ways: Early Jewish-Christian Relations. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson / Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
2006 Mastering New Testament Greek: Essential Tools for Students, with software. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson / Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
1993 The Early Church: An Annotated Bibliography of Works in English on the Early Church, with Brent Shaw et al. Metuchen: NJ: The American Theological Library Association and Scarecrow Press.
1988 The Bauer Thesis Examined: The Geography of Heresy in the Early Christian Church. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.
1987/1989 Greek Verb Endings: A Reverse Index. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.
Robinson is currently working on a manuscript provisionally titled "Wrinkles in Jewish-Christian Dialogue," in which he examines the post-Holocaust efforts to reinterpret early Christian writings that speak harshly of Judaism.