M. Shobhana Xavier - New Book, Pod Cast
School of Religion's Professor Shobhana Xavier, has been interviewed for her new book "Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American Sufism"
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Lives Lived: Professor Millard Schumaker
Lives Lived: Professor Millard Schumaker
A 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.
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Elias Andrews Room Gets A New Look!
Elias Andrews Room Gets A New Look!
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.
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Pamela Dickey Young lectures at Birmingham and Nottingham Universities
Pamela Dickey Young lectures at Birmingham and Nottingham Universities
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.”
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Dr. Matthew Dougherty to join the School of Religion as new Baker PostDoc
New Flora Jane Baker Postdoctoral Fellow
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.
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The School of Religion Welcomes Dr. Shobhana Xavier to the Faculty
New Faculty Member to Join Queen's School of Religion
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.
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Tributes to Professor Emeritus Millard Schumaker
Emeritus Professor Millard Schumaker (1936-2018)
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.
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New RELS Courses for 2018-2019
New RELS Courses to be offered in 2018-2019
Queen's School of Religion is pleased to be offering the following new courses in 2018-19:
FALL 2018
RELS 301: Themes and Religious Studies: Race, Ethnicity and Religion
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The Blog Assignment: Part II
A Followup to "The Blog Assignment"
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.
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Recent RELS MA graduate contributes to The Conversation
Lessons from Religious Groups for a 'Ghana Beyond Aid'
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.
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