Kevin (Kev) Grane
Scholar and Educator of Religion and Philosophy
Kevin “Kev” Grane is a PhD Candidate in the joint program at the University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology in Colorado, USA. Demographically, Kevin specializes in White Christian Nationalism and religious “nones.” Pedagogically Kevin utilizes a comparative critical lens directed toward decoding lived practices. Kevin highlights comprehensive and necessarily intersectional contexts of religious identity formation for the purposes of giving voice to the ideologically marginalized and appreciating native rationalities.
## Conference Presentations### 2025““Nones” and Near-Death Experiences: A Critical Insight” Society For The Anthropology Of Religion By Annual Conference UC Santa Barbara, June 21st to 23rd 2025.“Nones and Pleasure: A Systematic Analysis of the Perception and Application of Pleasure in the Lives of Religious Nones”Fifteenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society at the University of Rome, Summer 2025.“Nones and Pleasure: A Systematic Analysis of the Perception and Application of Pleasure in the Lives of Religious Nones” Regional American Academy of Religious Studies Conference, March 2025.““Nones” and Near-Death Experiences: A Critical Insight” Regional American Academy of Religious Studies Conference, March 2025.“Nones and Pleasure: A Systematic Analysis of the Perception and Application of Pleasure in the Lives of Religious Nones” Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies. Oxford University, Spring 2025.“Faith and Transitions: Religious Notions of Accountability and Gender Affirming Care for Youth” The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory in conjunction with The New Polis. Special issue on Religion and Bioethics, January 2025.### 2024“Displacing the Geographic Implications of White Christian Nationalism” Australian Association for the Study of Religion, 49th Annual Conference: Thinking Religion in Place, November 19th and 20th 2024.“Understanding Religious “Nones”: Internal Classifications and Characteristics” American Baptist Coalition of the Rocky Mountains Annual Gathering, Fall 2024.“Language and Humanity: A Critical Analysis of White Christian Nationalism” British Association for the Study of Religious (BASR), University of Leeds, Fall 2024.“Disease or Defense? Learning to See Past the Moral Repugnance of White Christian Nationalism” World Christianity Conference Sponsored by the Princeton Theological Seminary, Spring 2024.“Post-Modern Westernization as Religions Polarization” Religion and Bible Society of the Rocky Mountain-Great Plains co-sponsored by the American Academy of Religion, Spring 2024.### 2023“Religious Sacrificial Sympathy: How Man Became More Valuable than Beast.” The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory in conjunction with The New Polis. Fall 2023.### 2022“Cherubim in Antiquity: A Test Case in Greco-Christian Dialogue.” American Academy of Religion, Rocky Mountain District, 2022.
Publications
2025
“Nones and Near Death Experiences: A Critical Insight” CG Scholar. https://doi.org/10.18848/2154-8633/CGP/v16i01/1-17“Postmodern Westernization as Religious Polarization” NEXT Journal at University of Colorado Boulder, Volume 8, 2025. https://journals.colorado.edu/index.php/next/article/view/3165“Faith and Transitions: Religious Notions of Accountability and Gender Affirming Care for Youth” The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory in conjunction with The New Polis. Special issue on Religion and Bioethics, January 2025. https://www.jcrt.org/archives/24.1/Grane.pdf
Proposed, advertised, and moderated conference working for the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory2024
“Religious Sacrificial Sympathy: How Man Became More Valuable Than Beast” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory; a Whitestone publication, Spring 2024. https://www.jcrt.org/archives/23.1/Grane.pdf b“Dangerous Ramifications of Recent Ghar Wapsi Efforts” NEXT Journal at University of Colorado Boulder, 2024. https://journals.colorado.edu/index.php/next/article/view/2701
2023
“Evolution of Gender Hierarchy in Western Protestantism.” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory; a Whitestone publication, Spring 2023. https://www.jcrt.org/archives/22.1/Grane.pdf
Teaching
Experience
2025 - Current
Metropolitan State University; Denver CO
Adjunct Professor
“Religions of Aisa” – Spring 2026
“Morality and the Good Life” – Spring 2026
“Judaism, Christianity, and Islam” – Fall 2025
2021 – 2024
University of Denver; Denver CO
Teaching Assistant
“Buddhism in the USA” – Winter 2024.
“Hebrew Bible” – Winter 2024.
“Islam on Film” – Fall 2022 and Spring 2023.
“Art, Thought, and Spirituality” – Winter 2022.
“Bible as Literature” – Spring 2022.
“Abrahamic Traditions” – Fall 2021.
2019 - 2021
University of Oklahoma; Norman OK
Teaching Assistant:
“Gateway to College Learning” - Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2021.
Education
2023 - Present
Joint Doctoral Program, University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology
PhD Coursework Completed
Thesis: “The Phantom Denomination: A Study of White Christian Nationalism”
Committee: Drs. Carl Raschke, Dheepa Sundaram, and Antony Alumkal
2021 – 2023
University of Denver
MA Religious Studies
Focus: Critical Theory
Thesis: “The American Religious Decision: Significant Influences Upon the Religious Decision and the Decline of Christianity”
2017 – 2021
University of Oklahoma
BA, Religious Studies
Ministerial
PositionsLicensed Pastor of the American Baptist Coalition of the Rockey Mountains.
2023 – 2025
Forefront Church, Denver CO
Associate Pastor
2021 – 2023
Forefront Church, Denver CO
NextGen Pastor
2019 – 2021
Mission OKC, Oklahoma City, OK
Associate Pastor
2018 – 2019
The Road Church
Assistant Youth Pastor
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