San Francisco Theological Seminary
Tully Professor of Psychology and Religion
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1978

B.A. Abilene Christian University, 1967
M.Div. Yale University Divinity School, 1971
M.A. University of Chicago Divinity School, 1973
Ph.D. University of Chicago Divinity School, 1975

Phone: 415/451-2882
E-mail: lrambo@sfts.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Conversion: Spiritual and Religious Transformation
• Film Studies
• Jesus: Images and Experiences in Art, Film, Fiction, Scripture, and Culture
• Multi-Cultural Pastoral Care and Counseling
• Art and Religion: Creativity and Healing
• Religion and the Human Sciences [Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology of Religion]

Selected Publications

• Editor, Pastoral Psychology
• "Anthropology and the Study of Conversion," In The Anthropology of Religious Conversion, edited by Andrew Buckser and Stephen D. Glazier (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
• "Theories of Conversion," Social Compass (1999: 46: 3) 259-272.
• Understanding Religious Conversion (Yale University Press, 1993).
• "Archaeology of Memory: Reflections on De Staebler’s Sculptures," forthcoming in Space for Faiths: Stephen De Staebler’s Winged Figure, Art and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union, edited by Doug Adams.