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The following directory includes University of
Toronto professors teaching courses for the Ethnic, Immigration, and
Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. In addition, departmental
representatives are listed, as well as faculty members whose academic
interests concern either ethnicity or immigration.
RELIGION
DEPARTMENT
Pamela Klassen
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Professor Pamela Klassen teaches
RLG
2037—Religion and Healing (2002-2003) and has taught RLG 3931—Topics in
North American Religion in the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies
Collaborative Program. She has been the representative for Religious
Studies on the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies program committee. Her
interests include: Christianity in North America; gender and religion;
health and healing; and the anthropology of religion.
Selected
Publications
Klassen, Pamela. "Textual
Healing: Mainstream Protestants and the Therapeutic Text, 1900-1925," Church
History 75.4 (2006).
______. "Ritual Appropriation
and Appropriate Ritual: Christian Healing and Adaptation of Asian
Religions," History and Anthropology 16.3
(September 2005): 377-91.
______. "The Robes of
Womanhood: Dress and Authenticity among African American Methodist
Women in the Nineteenth Century," Religion and American
Culture 14.1 (2004): 39-82.
______. "Agency, Embodiment,
and Scrupulous Women," The Journal of Religion 84
(2004): 592-603.
______. "The Scandal of Pain
in Childbirth." In Suffering Religion, edited by
Robert Gibbs and Elliot R. Wolfson. London; New York: Routledge, 2002.
______. Blessed
Events: Religion and Home Birth in America. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2001.
______. "Sacred Maternities
and Post-Biomedical Bodies: Religion and Nature in Contemporary Home
Birth," Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society
26.3 (2001): 775-810.
______. Going by the
Moon and the Stars: Stories of Two Russian Mennonite Women.
Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1994.
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Reid Locklin
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Professor Reid Locklin teaches RLG
3236—Religious Pluralism and the Church in the Ethnic and Pluralism
Studies Collaborative Program. He teaches in the areas of Theology of
Religions, Ecclesiology, Advaita Vedanta, Augustine, and Comparative
Theology/Interreligious Dialogue. Professor Locklin is Co-Director
(with F. Clingerman, C. Chilson, and E. Runions) of "Pedagogies for
Civic Engagement," a Wabash Center Project Grant, 2008-2009
Selected
Publications
Locklin, Reid. "Toward an Interreligious Theology
of Church: Revisitng Bernard Lonergan's Contribution to the 'Dialogue
of Religions,'" Journal of Ecumenical Studies 43
(2008).
_____. "No Weapons but Words: Teaching as Conquest
in Ancient and Modern Advaita." In Weapons of Mass
Instruction: Proceedings of a St. Michael's College Symposium (25-26
November 2005), edited by J. Goering, F. Guardiani, and G.
Silano (New York, Ottawa, and Toronto: Legas, forthcoming.
_____. "Crossing Boundaries, Across Generations:
To and From the 1893 Parliament" (with J. Hill Fletcher). Paper
presented at Selected Session, Catholic Theological Society of America
Annual Meeting, 2008.
_____. "From Conquest to Conversation: Discerning
the Rough Contours of an Advaita Missiology." Paper presented at The
Church in Pluralist Contexts, Ecclesiological Investigations
International Meeting, 2008.
_____. "Interreligious Prudentia:
Wisdom from Peter Lombard for he Post-Conciliar Church." In Vatican
II: Forty Years Later, edited by W. Madges (Maryknoll: Orbis,
2006).
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Amira Mittermaier
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Professor Amira Mittermaier is the
representative for Religion on the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Program
Committee for 1999-2000. Her interests and areas of research are in
modern Islam, Sufism, postcoloniality and modernity in the Middle East,
anthropology of region, discourses of superstition.
Selected
Publications
Mittermaier, Amira. "Placing Dreams, Dreaming
Places: Reflections on Saint Shrines in Modern Cairo," forthcoming in Yearbook
for the Sociology of Islam.
______. "The Book of Visions: Dreams, Poetry, and
Prophecy in Contemporary Egypt," International Journal of
Middle East Studies 39 (2007): 229-247.
______. "A Matter of Interpretation: Dreams,
Islam, and Psychology in Contemporary Egypt," Paper presented at After
Pluralism: Rethinking Models of Interreligious Engagement,
Munk Centre, University of Toronto, March 22-24, 2007.
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Walid Saleh
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Professor Walid Saleh Was the
representative for Religion on the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies program
committee for 2003-2005. His areas of research include: the Qur'an;
Quranic exegetical tradition; apocalyptic Islamic literature; history
of Arabic lexicography; and medieval Arabic biographies.
Selected
Publications
Saleh, Walid. "The Bible Islamized: A Muslim
Hebraist-Evangelist at Work." Paper presented at The
Persistence of Philology, University College, University of
Toronto, March 15-17, 2007.
______. "What if you were ordered to fight? Saul
in the Qur'an." In Saul in Story and Tradition,
edited by Carl Ehrlich. Forschung, 2005.
______. The Formation of the Classical
Tafsir Tradition: The Qur'an Commentary of Al-thalabi.
Leiden: Brill, 2003.
______. "The Formation of Classical Qur'an
Commentaries: Al-Tha'labi and the Triumph of Sunnism" (2003).
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Larry Schmidt
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Professor Larry Schmidt was the
representative for Religion on the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Program
Committee for 1999-2000. His interests include: religion, ethics, and
technology.
Selected
Publications
Schmidt, Larry, and Patrick Patterson. "The
Christian Materialism of Simone Weil." In The Christian
Materialism of Simone Weil, edited by E. Jane Doering and
Eric O. Springsted. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2004.
______. "The Measure of Justice: The Language of
Limit in the Writings of Simone Weil" (2000).
______. "Voegelin Not Mysterious" (2000).
______, and Terry Barker. "George Grant on Simone
Weil: The Saint and the Thinker" (1996).
______. "Towards a Canadian Theology" (1993).
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