Jeffrey Scholes, PhD

Jeffrey Scholes is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy department and the Director of the Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He has written books and articles on American evangelical political theology and on the relationship between religion and sport in the United States. His latest books are Christianity, Race, and Sport (Routledge, 2021) and Religion and Sport in North America, co-edited with Randall Balmer (Routledge, 2022). He is currently working on a book on religion and sports fandom.

Scholes, J. (2025). Sacred Shoes: Religion at the Sidelines. International Journal of Sport and Religion, 2(2), 11-29. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ijsr.2024.a951625

Watching (and Tweeting and Arguing and Betting on) Sports,” in Media, Religion and Culture: An Introduction, 2nd ed., Jeffrey Mahan, (New York: Routledge, 2025).

Observing and Traversing the Sacred/Profane Boundary in Sport (2024). In The Companion to Christianity and Sport in Europe and North America (19th-21st centuries), Eds. Brian Bolt, Dries Vanysacker, Chad Carlson, Matt Hoven, and Ivo Jirásek, Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers.

Scholes, J. (2023). Religion and Sport Scholarship: A Brief History. International Journal of Sport and Religion, 1(1), 29-37. https://doi.org/10.1353/ijsr.2023.0002 

Scholes, J. (2022). We Will Not Shut Up and Dribble: LeBron James and the Tripartite Human Being. Religions, 13(2), 148. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13020148 

Scholes, J., & Balmer, R. (Eds.). (2022). Religion and sport in North America: Critical essays for the twenty-first century. Taylor & Francis.

Scholes, J. (2021). Christianity, race, and sport. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429316326