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F. LeRon Shults

F. LeRon Shults

Professor

Department of Global Development and Planning >

 

+47 38 14 20 71

Office:
IJ337 ( Universitetsveien 19, Kristiansand )
Office hours:
to be arranged

 

Professor Shults' curriculum vitae is available here:

www.leronshultsblog.com

Scientific publications

  • Shults, F. LeRon; Lane, Justin E. (2020). Death threats and religion: A computer simulation. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion. ISSN: 2049-7555.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon; Gore, Ross (2020). Modeling Radicalization and Violent Extremism. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. ISSN: 2213-8684. s 405 - 410. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-34127-5_41.
  • Poudel, Amrit Bahadur; Vos, Pauline; Shults, F. LeRon (2020). Students of Religion Studying Social Conflict through Simulation and Modelling - An Exploration. Advances in Social Simulation. Looking in the Mirror. ISBN: 978-3-030-34126-8. Springer Nature. 37. s 379 - 383.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon; Wildman, Wesley J.; Diallo, Saikou; Puga-Gonzalez, Ivan; Voas, David (2020). The Artificial Society Analytics Platform. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. ISSN: 2213-8684. s 411 - 426. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-34127-5_42.
  • Vos, Pauline; Dallas, Markos; Poudel, Amrit Bahadur; Shults, F. LeRon (2020). Using Social Simulations in Interdisciplinary Primary Education - an Expert Appraisal. Advances in Social Simulation. Looking in the Mirror. ISBN: 978-3-030-34126-8. Springer Nature. 45. s 451 - 456.
  • Shults, F. LeRon (2018). A Germ of Tranquil Atheism. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift. ISSN: 0039-6761. 94 (3). s 183 - 194.
  • Gore, Ross; Shults, F. LeRon; Wozny, Philip; Dignum, Frank; Boshuijzen-Van Burken, Christine; Royakkers, Lamber (2019). A Value Sensitive ABM of the Refugee Crisis in the Netherlands. Simulation Series. ISSN: 0735-9276. 51 (1). s 1 - 12. doi:10.23919/SpringSim.2019.8732867.
  • Lemos, Carlos; Gore, Ross; Lessard-Phillips, Laurence; Shults, F. LeRon (2019). A network agent-based model of ethnocentrism and intergroup cooperation. Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology. ISSN: 0033-5177. s 1 - 27. doi:10.1007/s11135-019-00856-y.
  • Shults, F. LeRon (2019). Computer modeling in philosophy of religion. Open Philosophy. ISSN: 2543-8875. 2 (1). s 108 - 125. doi:10.1515/opphil-2019-0011.
  • Shults, F. LeRon; Wildman, Wesley J. (2019). Ethics, computer simulation, and the future of humanity. Human Simulation: Perspectives, Insights, and Applications. ISBN: 978-3-030-17089-9. Springer. Kapittel 2. s 21 - 40.
  • Xanthopoulou, Themis Dimitra; Prinz, Andreas; Shults, F. LeRon (2019). Generating Executable Code from High-Level Social or Socio-Ecological Model Descriptions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ISSN: 0302-9743. 11753 LNCSs 150 - 162. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30690-8_9.
  • Diallo, Saikou; Wildman, Wesley J.; Shults, F. LeRon (2019). Human simulation: A transdisciplinary approach to studying societal problems. Human Simulation: Perspectives, Insights, and Applications. ISBN: 978-3-030-17089-9. Springer. kapittel 1. s 3 - 20.
  • Puga-Gonzalez, Ivan; Voas, David; Wildman, Wesley J.; Diallo, Saikou; Shults, F. LeRon (2019). Minority integration in a Western city: An agent-based modelling approach. Human Simulation: Perspectives, Insights, and Applications. ISBN: 978-3-030-17089-9. Springer. Kapittel 10. s 179 - 190.
  • Shults, F. LeRon; McCauley, Robert N.; Lane, Justin E. (2019). Modeling and simulation as a pedagogical and heuristic tool for developing theories in cognitive science: An example from ritual competence theory. Human Simulation: Perspectives, Insights, and Applications. ISBN: 978-3-030-17089-9. Springer. Kapittel 8. s 143 - 156.
  • Shults, F. LeRon (2019). Modeling metaphysics: The rise of simulation and the reversal of platonism. Simulation Series. ISSN: 0735-9276. 51 (1). s 1 - 12. doi:10.23919/SpringSim.2019.8732897.
  • Normann, Roger; Puga-Gonzalez, Ivan; Shults, F. LeRon; Homme, Gro Anita (2019). Multi-agent kunstig intelligens og offentlig politikk. Samfundslederskab i Skandinavien. ISSN: 2596-6200. 34 (4). s 309 - 325. doi:10.22439/sis.v34i4.5878.
  • Teehan, John; Shults, F. LeRon (2019). Religion, Empathy, and Cooperation: A Case Study in the Promises and Challenges of Modeling and Simulation. Human Simulation: Perspectives, Insights, and Applications. ISBN: 978-3-030-17089-9. Springer. Kapittel 9. s 157 - 178.
  • Poudel, Amrit Bahadur; Vos, Pauline; Shults, F. LeRon (2019). Students of Development Studies learning about modelling and simulations as a research approach in their discipline. Proceedings of the Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education. ISBN: 978-90-73346-75-8. European Society for Research in Mathematics Education. KAPITTEL. s 1256 - 1263.
  • Shults, F. LeRon; Wildman, Wesley J.; Dignum, Virginia (2019). The ethics of computer modeling and simulation. Winter simulation conference : proceedings. ISSN: 0891-7736. doi:10.1109/WSC.2018.8632517.
  • Shults, F. LeRon; Gore, Ross; Wildman, Wesley J.; Lynch, Christopher J.; Lane, Justin E; Toft, Monica Duffy (2018). A Generative Model of the Mutual Escalation of Anxiety Between Religious Groups. JASSS : Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. ISSN: 1460-7425. 21 (4). doi:10.18564/jasss.3840.
  • Lane, Justin E; Shults, F. LeRon; Wildman, Wesley J. (2018). A potential explanation for self-radicalisation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. ISSN: 0140-525X. doi:10.1017/S0140525X18001760.
  • Shults, F. LeRon (2018). Can we predict and prevent religious radicalisation?. Violent Extremism in the 21st Century: International Perspectives. ISBN: 1-5275-1580-X. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Chapter three. s 45 - 71.
  • Shults, F. LeRon; Lane, Justin E (2018). Cognition, Culture, and Social Simulation. Journal of Cognition and Culture. ISSN: 1567-7095. 18 (5). s 451 - 461. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340039.
  • Shults, F. LeRon; Wildman, Wesley J. (2018). Emergence: What does it mean and how is it relevant to computer engineering?. Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems Engineering. ISBN: 9781119378860. John Wiley & Sons. kapittel. s 21 - 34.
  • Gore, Ross; Shults, F. LeRon; Lemos, Carlos; Wildman, Wesley J. (2018). Forecasting changes in religiosity and existential security with an agent-based model. JASSS : Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. ISSN: 1460-7425. 21 (1). doi:10.18564/jasss.3596.
  • Shults, F. LeRon; Tolk, A.*; Wildman, Wesley J.; Diallo, Saikou (2018). Human Simulation as Lingua Franca for relating the Humanities and Social Sciences. Journal of Cognition and Culture. ISSN: 1567-7095. 18 (5). s 462 - 482. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340040.
  • Shults, F. LeRon; Wildman, Wesley J. (2018). Modeling Catalhoyuk: Simulating religious entanglement in a Neolithic town. Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life. ISBN: 978-1-60732-736-3. University Press of Colorado. 2018.
  • Shults, F. LeRon; Wildman, Wesley J.; Lane, Justin E; Diallo, Saikou; Lynch, Christopher J. (2018). Multiple axialities: A computational model of the axial age. Journal of Cognition and Culture. ISSN: 1567-7095. 18 (5). s 537 - 564. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340043.
  • Shults, F. LeRon (2018). Simulating supernatural seeking. Religion, Brain and Behavior. ISSN: 2153-599X. s 1 - 4. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2018.1453530.
  • Shults, F. LeRon (2018). Strategies for Promoting Safe Sects: Response to Brandon Daniel-Hughes and Jeffrey B. Speaks. American Journal of Theology and Philosophy. ISSN: 0194-3448. 39 (3). s 80 - 93.
  • Wildman, Wesley J.; Fishwick, Paul; Shults, F. LeRon (2018). Teaching at the intersection of simulation and the humanities. Winter simulation conference : proceedings. ISSN: 0891-7736. s 4162 - 4174. doi:10.1109/WSC.2017.8248136.
  • Shults, F. LeRon; Gore, Ross; Lemos, Carlos; Wildman, Wesley J. (2018). Why do the godless prosper? Modeling the cognitive and coalitional mechanisms that promote atheism. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. ISSN: 1941-1022. 10 (3). s 218 - 228. doi:10.1037/rel0000198.
  • Shults, F. LeRon; Lane, Justin E.; Wildman, Wesley J.; Diallo, Saikou; Lynch, Christopher J.; Gore, Ross (2017). Modelling terror management theory: Computer simulations of the impact of mortality salience on religiosity. Religion, Brain and Behavior. ISSN: 2153-599X. 8 (1). s 77 - 100. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2016.1238846.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2016). Can theism be defeated? CSR and the debunking of supernatural agent abductions. Religion, Brain and Behavior. ISSN: 2153-599X. 6 (4). s 349 - 355. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2015.1107251.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2016). The Atheist Machine. Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion. ISBN: 9781474266895. Bloomsbury Academic. Chapter 8. s 163 - 192.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2015). How to survive the anthropocene: Adaptive atheism and the evolution of homo deiparensis. Religions. ISSN: 2077-1444. 6 (2). s 724 - 741. doi:10.3390/rel6020724.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2015). Religion and the Prizing of Peace: Reflections on the 2014 Peace Prize. Agder Vitenskapsakademi - Årbok 2014. ISBN: 978-82-8314-034-7. Portal forlag. Chapter 7. s 232 - 236.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2015). What's the Use? Pragmatic reflections on Neville's Ultimates. American Journal of Theology and Philosophy. ISSN: 0194-3448. 36 (1). s 69 - 80.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2014). Excavating Theogonies: Anthropomorphic Promiscuity and Sociographic Prudery in the Neolithic and Now. Religion at Work in a Neolithic Society: Vital Matters. ISBN: 9781107671263. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 3. s 58 - 85.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2014). Theology after Pandora: The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (and Culture). Revisioning, Renewing, Rediscovering The Triune Center: Essays in Honor of Stanley J. Grenz. ISBN: 9781610973144. Wipf and Stock Publishers. Chapter 18. s 361 - 381.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2012). Dis-integrating Psychology and Theology. Journal of psychology and theology. ISSN: 0091-6471. 40 (1). s 21 - 25.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2012). Ethics, exemplarity and atonement. Theology and the Science of Moral Action. ISBN: 0415895790. Routledge. chapter.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2012). Religion and science in Christian theology. The Routledge companion to religion and science. ISBN: 978-0-415-49244-7. Routledge. Chapter 1. s 3 - 12.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2012). Science and Religious Supremacy: Toward a Naturalist Theology of Religions. Science and the World's Religions: Volume 3, Religions and Controversies. ISBN: 9780313387326. Praeger. Chapter 4. s 73 - 100.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (3). Science and Spirit? Response to Amos Yong's "The Spirit of Creation". Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. ISSN: 1916-6087. s 123 - 125.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2012). The Problem of Good (and Evil): Arguing about Axiological Origins in Science and Religion. Science and the World's Religions: Volume 1, Origins and Destinies. ISBN: 9780313387326. Praeger. Chapter 2. s 39 - 68.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2012). Wising Up: The Evolution of Natural Theology – The Boyle Lecture 2012 Response. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. ISSN: 0591-2385. 47 (3). s 542 - 548. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2012.01273.x.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2011). Bearing gods in mind and culture. Religion, Brain and Behavior. ISSN: 2153-599X. 1 (2). s 154 - 167. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2011.613615.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2011). De-oedipalizing theology: desire, difference and Deleuze. Saving desire : the seduction of Christian theology. ISBN: 978-0-8028-6626-4. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. Chapter 7. s 73 - 104.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2011). Empathically reading the religious texts of others. Hellige skrifter i verdensreligionene. ISBN: 978-82-7634-902-3. Cappelen Damm Høyskoleforlaget. Chapter 7. s 179 - 195.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon; Sandage, Steven (2011). Relational spirituality and transformation. The Popular Encyclopedia of Christian Counseling. ISBN: 0736943560. Harvest House Publishers. Chapter 7. s 146 - 148.
  • Shults, LeRon (2010). Religious symbolism at the limits of human engagement. Theology and Science. ISSN: 1474-6700. 8 (3). s 303 - 318.
  • Shults, LeRon (2010). Religious symbolism: engaging the limits of human identification. Human Identity at the Intersection of Science, Technology and Religion. ISBN: 978-1-4094-1050-8. Ashgate. Chapter 2. s 39 - 56.
  • Shults, LeRon (2010). Spiritual entanglement: transforming religious symbols at Catalhoyuk. Religion in the Emergence of Civilization: Catalhoyuk as a Case Study. Cambridge University Press.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2010). Spiritual entanglement: transforming religious symbols at Catalhoyuk. Religion in the emergence of civilization : Çatalhöyük as a case study. ISBN: 978-0-521-15019-4. Cambridge University Press. 3. s 73 - 98.
  • Shults, LeRon (2010). The philosophical turn to alterity in Christology and ethics. Christology and ethics. ISBN: 978-0-8028-4509-2. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. s 179 - 211.
  • Shults, LeRon (2010). The roots of spirituality and the limits of human mensuration. The roots of spirituality and the limits of human mensuration. ISBN: 9780521135887. Cambridge University Press. Section V..
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2010). Transforming Theological Symbols. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. ISSN: 0591-2385. 45 (3). s 713 - 732.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2010). Transforming ecclesiologies in a multireligious world. Walk humbly with the Lord : church and mission engaging plurality. ISBN: 978-0-8028-6630-1. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. Chapter. s 135 - 149.
  • Shults, LeRon (2010). Transforming religious plurality: anxiety and differentiation in religious "families of origin". Studies in Interreligious Dialogue. ISSN: 0926-2326. 20 (2). s 148 - 169.
  • Shults, LeRon (2009). A Philosophical Introduction to "Divine Action". Philosophy, science, and divine action. ISBN: 9004177876. Brill Academic Publishers. s 1 - 15.
  • Shults, LeRon (2009). Reforming Ecclesiology in Emerging Churches. Theology Today. ISSN: 0040-5736. 65 (4). s 425 - 438.
  • Shults, LeRon (2008). Spirit and Spirituality: Philosophical Trends in Late Modern Pneumatology. Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. ISSN: 0272-0965. 30
  • Shults, LeRon (2008). That Than Which Nothing More Lovely Can Be Conceived. Visions of Agape, edited by Craig Boyd. Ashgate.
  • Shults, LeRon (2007). Current Trends in Pneumatology. Spirit and Spirituality. University of Copenhagen. faglig_bok_forlag. s 20 - 38.
  • Shults, LeRon (2007). Incorporating Figuration and Spirituality. Image and Imagination. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. faglig_bok_forlag. s 337 - 340.
  • Shults, LeRon (2007). Tending to the Other in Late Modern Missions and Ecumenism. Svensk Missionstidsskrift. ISSN: 0346-217X. 95 (4). s 415 - 434.
  • Shults, LeRon (2007). The philosophy of time the turn to futurity in late modern philosophy. Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology. ISSN: 0039-338X. 61 (1). s 47 - 60.
  • Shults, F. LeRon (2006). Trinitarian Faith Seeking Transformative Understanding. The Oxford Handbook on Religion and Science. ISBN: 978-0199543656. Oxford University Press. kapittel. s 488 - 502.
  • Shults, LeRon (2006). Trinitarian Faith Seeking Transformative Understanding. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science. Oxford University Press. faglig_bok_forlag. s 15.
  • Diallo, Saikou; Wildman, Wesley J.; Shults, F. LeRon; Tolk, A.* (2019). Human Simulation: Perspectives, Insights, and Applications. ISBN: 978-3-030-17089-9. Springer. s 94.
  • Shults, F. LeRon (2018). Practicing Safe Sects : Religious Reproduction in Scientific and Philosophical Perspective. ISBN: 978-90-04-36095-2. Brill Academic Publishers. s 252.
  • Shults, F. LeRon (1999). Sub Ratione Dei: Wolfhart Pannenberg’s Theological Anthropology and the Postfoundationalist Task of Theology. ISBN: 978-0-8028-4686-0. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. s 280.
  • Shults, F. LeRon (1999). The Postfoundationalist Task of Theology: Wolfhart Pannenberg and the New Theological Rationality. ISBN: 978-0-8028-4686-0. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. s 280.
  • Shults, F. LeRon; Sandage, Steven (2003). The Faces of Forgiveness: Searching for Wholeness and Salvation. ISBN: 9780801026249. Baker Academic. s 270.
  • Shults, F. LeRon (2003). Reforming Theological Anthropology: After the Philosophical Turn to Relationality. ISBN: 978-0-8028-4887-1. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. s 278.
  • Shults, F. LeRon (2005). Reforming the Doctrine of God. ISBN: 978-0-8028-2988-7. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. s 336.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2016). Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion. ISBN: 9781474266895. Bloomsbury Academic. s 194.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2014). Iconoclastic Theology: Gilles Deleuze and the Secretion of Atheism. ISBN: 9780748684137. Edinburgh University Press. s 225.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon (2014). Theology after the Birth of God: Atheist Conceptions in Cognition and Culture. ISBN: 9781137364548. Palgrave Macmillan. s 238.
  • Shults, Fount LeRon; Henriksen, Jan-Olav (2011). Saving desire : the seduction of Christian theology. ISBN: 978-0-8028-6626-4. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
  • Shults, LeRon (2010). Christology and ethics. ISBN: 978-0-8028-4509-2. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. s 224.
  • Shults, LeRon (2008). Christology and Science. ISBN: 9780802862488. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. s 171.
  • Shults, LeRon; Hollingsworth, Andrea (2008). The Holy Spirit. ISBN: 9780802824646. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. s 156.
  • Shults, LeRon (2008). Christology and scienceIngen tittel. ISBN: 0754652319. Ashgate. s 182.
  • Shults, LeRon (2006). Transforming Spirituality. ISBN: 080102823X. Baker Academic. s 300.
  • Shults, LeRon (2006). The Evolution of Rationality. ISBN: 0802827896. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. s 426.
  • Puga-Gonzalez, Ivan; Shults, F. LeRon (2019). InCREDulity in Artificial Societies.
  • Wildman, Wesley J.; Shults, F. LeRon; Diallo, Saikou (2019). Computational Demography of Religion: A Proposal.
  • Wildman, Wesley J.; Shults, F. LeRon (2019). Simulating Secularities: Studying Religion and Nonreligion in Artificial Societies.

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