Dr.  Amarnath Amarasingam has been recently quoted in several articles and a pod casts regarding the individual commonly known as "Jihadi Jack"

• Is "Jihadi Jack" Canada's Problem Now? (Pod Cast)
• "How a UK-Born Accused Terrorist Suddenly Became Canadian"

Dr. Shobhana Xavier received a research grant from the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World at Shenandoah University for her research on Sufism in contemporary Sri Lanka.
You can read more about it on the website for information about the other recipients of the grant.

Dr. Shobhana Xavier presented some of her research on Sufi shrines in contemporary Sri Lanka at the Sufism and Body Conference at Utrecht University on September 13, 2019. More information about the conference and the program.

SENSIS: The senses of Islam | International Conference: Sufism and the Body

Queen's School of Religion is excited to announce that we will be hosting Professor Biko Mandela Gray, an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, as a Queen's Visiting Scholar. Professor Gray works on African American religion broadly, and is interested in connections between race, subjectivity, religion, and embodiment. He is currently completing a book on contemporary racial justice movements, like Blacklivesmatter, and is exploring the intersections between embodiment, religion, and subjectivity.

Dr. Amarnath Amarasingam has been recently quoted in several media sources. 

2020-2021 Canada Graduate Scholarship - Masters (CGS-M) Competition

Guidelines and complete instructions for the 2020-2021 Canada Graduate Scholarships –Master’s (CGS M) competition are now available from this website:

Link to Website

The online Canadian Common CV (CCV) and the online Research Portal application for the 2020-2021 CGS M competition are accessed from the same website.

A group of the world’s top performing students gathered in Dublin from 11–13 November 2019 to take part in the Global Undergraduate Summit, a 3-day conference where students from 38 universities, 12 countries and 25 different categories gathered to collaborate and share research.

RELS MA student Samuel Maclennan was Highly Commended in the Philosophy category for his paper Queering Mary in Christian Feminist Theological Literature. 

More information on the Global Undergraduate Summit

The annual American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Conference was held was held in San Diego, California in November of this year and was well attended by the Queen's University, School of Religion's faculty. There participation covered a variety of activities listed below.

There are still some spaces available in the following RELS courses:

RELS 163  Religion and Popular Culture

RELS 210  Hebrew Bible

RELS 218  Christianity

RELS 236  Religion and Sex

RELS 240  Magic, Witchcraft, and the Supernatural

A wonderful time was had by all at the 2019 Holiday Festivities at the Donald Gordon Center, for a festive luncheon to celebrate the end of Fall term.