Stephen J. Shoemaker is an American scholar, specialising in ancient and early medieval Christianity and early Islam.
He serves as a professor of religious studies at the University of Oregon.
His work has focused on early devotion to the Virgin Mary, Christian Apocrypha and formative Islam and its relationship with Near Eastern Christianity.
Shoemaker received his Ph.D. from Duke University in religious studies.
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