Julie J. Ingersoll is an American religious studies scholar. She is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Florida. Ingersoll is from Maine, and studied at

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and

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before obtaining a

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in Religious Studies from the

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. She previously taught at

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, Rhodes College, and

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. Ingersoll specializes in Christianity and gender and Christian Reconstructionism. She wrote ''Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles'' (

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) in 2003, in which she suggested that "an unequivocal commitment to

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gender roles currently ranks for this generation of evangelicals as a paramount priority, as significant as the debate on biblical inerrancy was in the previous generation." In 2015 she wrote ''Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction'' (

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). There she argued that "core Reconstructionist ideas have exerted an outsized influence on political, cultural, and legal life" in the United States. Ingersoll has also contributed articles to the ''

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'' and '' Religion Dispatches''.

References

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