School of Religion
School of Religion
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. 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.
Current PhD Candidate in Cultural Studies, James Kwateng-Yeboah, writes about Ghana's response to financial appeals from churches in an article that was recently published in The Conversation.
Read about it in the Queen's Gazette.
RELS Spring 2018 Convocation
On Tuesday, June 5th, 2018 School of Religion faculty members and staff joined RELS graduates and their families to help celebrate their convocation. A small reception was held in the Elias Andrews Room after the graduation ceremony in Grant Hall.
Sharday Mosurinjohn shares her experience with a new blog assignment in RELS 341 on the Religious Studies Project website.
Read her post at The Blog Assignment: "Authentic" Learning about Spirituality, Secularity, and Nonreligion?
