Posts by Stephen Lloyd-Moffett

Stephen Lloyd-Moffett

Dr. Stephen Lloyd-Moffett (Ph.D.) is a professor of Religious Studies at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. Professor Lloyd-Moffett has broad interests in religion, publishing or lecturing on the mystical life of César Chávez, religion in modern Greece, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, ignorance of Islam in America, and most recently in the relationship between religion and wine. He is the author of Beauty for Ashes: The Spiritual Transformation of a Modern Greek Community, and The Soul of Wine: Finding Religion in the Fruit of the Vine. In 2010, he was named one of the Top 20 under 40 in San Luis Obispo and was awarded the Cal Poly College of Liberal arts teaching award and the President's Community Service Award. His interests outside the classroom include communal living, wine making, and spending time with his sons, Basil and Phineas.