The School of Religion has recently brought in two Post-Doctoral Fellows: Richard Last who is doing a full-time, two-year appointment, and Valerie Michaelson who is doing a part-time appointment with the School of Religion and the Faculty of Health Sciences for at least two years.

Post-Doctoral Fellows are scholars who have recently completed doctoral studies and wish to do further research in a specific area of interest. They work under the supervision of a faculty member in the School, and enrich the community with their expertise, interests and, in some cases, teaching.

The Honourable John Matheson remembered

The School fondly remembers The Honourable John Matheson who passed away recently at the age of 96.

Hasina Shain Daya has received a Pathy Family Fellowship through the Queen's International Centre to support a sustainable development project in Kenya.

Ms. Daya writes:

My name is Hasina Shain Daya and I graduated from a RELS program in 2014. Following a summer participating in Queen's Summer Innovation Institute.  I will be moving to a small village outside of Nakuru, Kenya to complete a sustainable development project with the financial support of the Pathy Family Fellowship offered through the Queen's University International Centre (QUIC).

"Gurus of Modern Yoga", a book Ellen Goldberg co-edited with Mark Singleton and published by Oxford University Press, will be released December 2014.

This volume explores the contributions that individual gurus have made to the formation of the practices and discourses of yoga in today's world. The focus is not limited to India, but also considers the teachings of yoga gurus in the modern, transnational world, and within the Hindu diaspora.

Queen's School of Religion is pleased to announce the publication of a new book co-edited by Professor James Miller.

The Huffington Post recently ran an article in which RELS 322/822 "Yoga in India and the West" was named one of the "coolest classes" offered at a post-secondary institution in Canada, alongside "History Whodunits", "Global Modernisms with a focus on Piracy", "Hockey: Culture and Commerce", and 29 others.

Ellen Goldberg teaches RELS 322/822 in the Winter term 2015.

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Oxford University Press has just published the third edition of Women and Religious Traditions edited by Leona Anderson and Pamela Dickey Young.

Using a critical feminist lens, this text explores the roles and interactions of women within major world faiths. For each tradition, the text examines the history and status of women, family structures, sexuality, and social change, as well as texts, rituals and interpretations by and for women.

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His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, delivered the Donald Mathers Memorial Lecture on Friday, 26 September, 2014. The lecture was held in Grant Hall, with 900 people in attendance, including students and members of the Coptic church from Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto.

Prof. Ellen Goldberg has been awarded the W.J. Barnes Teaching Excellence Award by the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society.

This is an annual award presented to deserving members of the Faculty of Arts and Science who have made a significant contribution to teaching. See the Barnes Award website for more information.

Congratulations, Prof. Goldberg!

Prof. Richard Ascough's new book, 1 and 2 Thessalonians: Encountering the Christ Group at Thessalonike, has been published by Sheffield Phoenix Press in their Guides to the New Testament Series.

This short overview narrates the story of the founding of the Christ group at Thessalonike through an examination of the literary content of the two canonical letters ascribed to Paul alongside comparative work with inscriptions from voluntary associations.