Valerie Michaelson, Colleen M. Davison, Pamela Dickey Young, and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich address the need for comprehensive sex education in our schools, in a feature by The Conversation.
School of Religion's Professor Shobhana Xavier, has been interviewed for her new book "Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American Sufism"
Lives Lived: Professor Millard SchumakerA very touching article about the life of Dr. Millard Schumaker can be found in the September 11th edition of The Queen's Gazette, written by our very own Professor William Morrow.
A PDF version can be found on page 6 of the Queen's Gazette.
This past summer our beloved Elias Andrews Room underwent a long overdue renovation. The new look was unveiled at the Graduate Students /Faculty Meet and Greet in September.
Pamela Dickey Young, Acting Director, was appointed as Distinguished Visitor at Aston University in Birmingham, UK in July 2018. One of her public tasks was to deliver a lecture entitled: “What’s Religion Got to Do with It? How Young Adults in Canada Make Decisions about ‘Premarital’ Sex.”
The School of Religion is delighted to welcome Dr. Matthew Dougherty as Flora Jane Baker Postdoctoral Fellow for the period July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2020.
Dr. Dougherty has a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The School of Religion is delighted to welcome Dr. M.Shobhana Xavier as a member of faculty.
Dr. Xavier has a PhD in Religion and Culture from the joint Wilfrid Laurier U program in Religious Diversity in North America.
Her work is in areas such as transnational Sufism; religion, race and ethnicity; religion and migration; religion and gender; and sacred spaces.
Millard Kent Schumaker, Emeritus Professor of Queen’s Theological and the Department of Religious Studies of Queen’s University, passed away on June 20, 2018.
Queen's School of Religion is pleased to be offering the following new courses in 2018-19:
RELS 301: Themes and Religious Studies: Race, Ethnicity and Religion
In the second of a two-part series, Richard Ascough adds his voice to Sharday Mosurinjohn’s reflections on a new blog post assignment she used in RELS 341 (Spirituality, Secularity, and Non-Religion).
Read their co-authored post at The Blog Assignment: Confronting "Spirituality" in Teaching Religious Studies.
