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Still finalizing your courses for 2019-2020?  We've provided more detail about our upcoming courses, so take another look at what's on offer for 2019-2020.

Congratulations to Dr. Shobhana Xavier who has been awarded a Wabash Center Fellowship for a project entitled:  "Navigating the Taboos of Race, Ethnicity and Religion in the Classroom." For the Fellowship project she will be researching and reflecting on her religious studies pedagogical practices, especially for her course on race, ethnicity and religion.

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

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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.

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.

»ÆÉ«ÊÓƵ School of Religion is excited to announce that we will be hosting Professor , an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, as a »ÆÉ«ÊÓƵ 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:

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. 

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 »ÆÉ«ÊÓƵ, School of Religion's faculty. There participation covered a variety of activities listed below.