Identities Under Construction: Religion, Gender, and Sexuality among Youth in Canada by Pamela Dickey Young and Heather Shipley has just been published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Drawing from survey responses and interviews with nearly 500 young adults in Canada, the book explores the development, fluidity, and intertwining of religious, gender, and sexual identities.
Dr. Juan Cole, University of Michigan, will be making a presentation on his recent book, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires, online Tuesday, October 6th, 5:30pm via Facebook Live at www.facebook.com/MSGPQU. This lecture organized by Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives is co-sponsored by the School of Religion, Department of History, and Office of Faith and Spiritual Life. Poster attached.
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"Pamela Dickey Young discusses Pope Francis’ watershed endorsement on same-sex civil unions, an endorsement that emerged on October 21 2020 in the debut of Evgeny Afineevsky’s documentary Francesco at the Rome Film Festival. Young fills in details about official teachings of the Catholic Church related to same same sex unions, the views of more conservative Catholics, and how the endorsement is a huge step forward for LGBTQI+ Catholics, but still falls short of official recognition of the diversity of loving relationships within the Catholic Church."
Kathryn Lofton’s “The Present Life of Blasphemy: Kanye West in American Popular Culture” has been rescheduled from March 2020. Please join the School of Religion as we host Kathryn Lofton virtually on February 2nd at 2:30pm.
Register Now: Zoom Link
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The Jewish Studies Program and the School of Religion at Queen’s University will host an important discussion on the future of antisemitism and hate movements in the post-Trump period.
Tracy Trothen is very pleased to announce the publication of her coauthored (with Professor Calvin Mercer) book: Religion and the Technological Future: An Introduction to Biohacking, A.I., and Transhumanism (Palgrave MacMillan).
