Religion

Professor of Religion

Professor of Religion, Rom Maczka is an authority on the study of Christianity and Marxism. He has served as director of the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Marxism, has lectured frequently on Marxist historiography and Christian Marxist relations in the former Eastern Europe, and has eleven years of ministry experience in a missionary context. As a research associate for the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Marxism, he authored Christianity and Marxism in Higher Education as well as articles that appeared in the Lutheran Quarterly, Mennonite Quarterly Review, and Occasional Papers on Religion and Eastern Europe.

Before the breakup of the Soviet Union, Mr. Maczka was invited to chair the subcommittee on religion of the U.S. - U.S.S.R. bilateral Emerging Leader Summit Conference, an effort sponsored by the Soviet Committee on Youth Organizations and the American Center for International Leadership. In the wake of the Soviet breakup he participated on an inter-religious task force assessing Soviet religious developments in light of American church involvement. He has received research and educational grants from Stewards Foundation, David D. Cook Foundation, Lilly Foundation, Richardson Foundation, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Mennonite Central Committee.

More recently Mr. Maczka has served as guest professor at the United Theological College, Bangalore, India and undertaken field research into religion and paramilitary activity in Chiapas and the Guatemalan highlands. Included in his course offerings are systematic theology, world religions, church history, monks and mystics, modern theology, holocaust studies and Reformation history. He earned a both a B.A. and a M.A. degree at Wheaton College and earned a Ph.D. at Leipzig University in Germany. Mr. Maczka joined the Carthage faculty in 1989.

Maczka's curriculum vitae, syllabi and classroom resources my be accessed from Rom Maczka's home page.