News

On November 8, 2024, the Department of Religious Studies held a scholarly discussion on "The 2024 US Presidential Election: A Nation Divided?” with Andrew Hunt, Veronica Kitchen, Carmen Celestini and Scott Kline.⁣⁣⁣
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Scholars discussed the 47th Presidential election and what it means for US-Canada relations, Canadian domestic politics, the role of religion in politics, information on social media, and the future of liberal democracy.⁣⁣⁣
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The event was well attended with over fifty in-person participants. ⁣

On Thursday, October 24, 2024, the Religious Studies department held a student event. 
An opportunity for students and professors connected to the program to get to know each other. More than twenty people came out for pizza and great conversation!

Congratulations to Tucker Finch, winner of the Distinguished Achievement Award in Religious Studies for 2023 - 2024. 

Congratulations to Peter Frick on his new book entitled Understanding Paul: The Existential Perspective

Congratulations to Jess Gilbert, winner of the Distinguished Academic Achievement Award in Religious Studies for 2022- 2023.

Dr. David Seljak delivered the opening lecture at the "Land, Law, Religion, and Reconciliation" colloquium hosted by university of Victoria, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society.

We are very proud and pleased to announce that Dr. Doris Jakobsh received a lifetime achievement award from Sikh Studies, in honour of her contributions.

This book brings a broad, holistic approach to the study of the phenomena of the global Sikh community referred to collectively as the Panth.

Living Nembutsu is a sourcebook for Jodo Shinshu Buddhists and other interested readers looking to apply Pure Land perspectives to the problems of contemporary society.

Congratulations to our faculty member, James Diamond, on his recently published book entitled Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought (Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization/Liverpool University Press, 2019), coauthored with Menachem Kellner.