Religion

Christoph Emmrich

Director, Centre for South Asian Studies

Associate Professor, Department for the Study of Religion

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Religion
• Centres
  • Centre for South Asian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Buddhism Hinduism and Jainism
• Nepal Burma and Tamilnadu (India)
• Newar; Nepali; Burmese; Mon; Tamil; Sanskrit and Pali languages and literatures
• Religion; ritual; gender; children; girl children‎; time; travel and memory
• South Asia and Southeast Asia
• The Newars the Mon and the Tamilians

Office: (416) 978-6463
Website
Email: christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca
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David Novak

Professor, Department for the Study of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science

Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Philosophy
  • Religion
• Centres
  • Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies
  • Joint Centre for Bioethics

Areas of Expertise

• Jewish law and ethics
• Philosophy of law
• Philosophy of religion
• Political philosophy

Office: 416-946-3229
Home: 416-545-0106
Mobile: 647-404-6935
Languages: Hebrew, German, Yiddish
Website
Email: david.novak@utoronto.ca
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Frances Garrett

Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Religion

Areas of Expertise

• Tibetan Buddhism

Office: 416-978-1020
Website
Email: frances.garrett@utoronto.ca
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Isabelle Cochelin

Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science

Associate Professor, Department of Centre for Medieval Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science

Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • History
  • Religion
• Centres
  • Centre for Medieval Studies
  • Centre for the Study of Religion

Areas of Expertise

• History of medieval childhood
• History of monasticism
• History of Poverty (1000-1500)
• History of servants and service (1000-1700)
• Medieval history
• Medieval social history
• Old age in the medieval period
• Youth in the medieval period

Office: 416-978-7414
Languages: French
Email: isabelle.cochelin@utoronto.ca
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John Kloppenborg

Professor, Department for the Study of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science

Chair, Department for the Study of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Religion
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of Religion

Areas of Expertise

• Early Christianity
• Historical Jesus

Office: 416-978-6493
Home: 416-604-2597
Email: chair.religion@utoronto.ca
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Mark McGowan

Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science

Professor, Department of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science

Principal Emeritus, St. Michael's College

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • History
  • Religion
• Centres
  • Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies
  • Centre for the Study of Religion

Areas of Expertise

• Catholic Church (Canada and the world)
• Catholic education in Canada
• History of Christianity
• Immigration and Canada
• Religion and Communications
• The Irish in Canada

Office: 416-926-1300 ext. 3253
Home: 905-668-0959
Mobile: 647-771-1865
Email: mark.mcgowan@utoronto.ca
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Moira McQueen

Professor, Department of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science

Professor, University of St. Michael's College, Faculty of Theology

Executive Director, Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute, University of St. Michael's College

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Religion

Areas of Expertise

• Care of the elderly
• Conscience issues in health care
• Diversity and gender issues
• Euthanasia
• Fundamental ethics
• Moral theology and bioethics
• Organ donation
• Palliative care
• Reproductive technology
• Sexual Ethics
• stem cell research

Office: 416-926-7285
Website
Email: moira.mcqueen@utoronto.ca
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Pamela Klassen

Professor, Department for the Study of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science

Professor, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Anthropology
  • Religion
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States
  • Humanities Centre
  • Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Contemporary Christianity
• Religion
• Religion in the public sphere
• Religious diversity
• ritual and healing
• Women and religion

Office: 416-585-4573
Website
Email: p.klassen@utoronto.ca
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Phyllis Airhart

Professor, Department for the Study of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Religion
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of Religion

Areas of Expertise

• History of Christianity in North America
• History of the United Church of Canada

Office: 416-585-4536
Email: p.airhart@utoronto.ca
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Reid Locklin

Associate Professor, Department of the Study of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Religion

Areas of Expertise

• Catholic Church
• Interreligious dialogue

Office: 416-926-1300 x3317
Home: 416-929-7192
Email: reid.locklin@utoronto.ca
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Ruth Marshall

Associate Professor, Department of the Study of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Political Science
  • Religion
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of Religion

Areas of Expertise

• Citizenship state politics and violence in Nigeria & Cote d’Ivoire
• Continental philosophy of religion
• Continental political philosophy
• Pentecostalism radical reformist Islam and religious revival in the Global South
• Post-colonial theory African Studies
• Religion and Politics
• Religious conflict and violence
• Secularism and democratic theory
• United States Politics – the Religious Right since the 1970s; the rise of the alt-right; the MAGA movement; QAnon; the Trump years and party politics
• United States Religion – evangelicals and race; White Christian nationalism; theocracy; dominionism; reconstructionism; Christian cults; QAnon and its Christian roots and networks

Office: 416-978-0241
Email: ruth.marshall@utoronto.ca
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Simon Coleman

Jackman Professor, Department of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science

Jackman Professor, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Anthropology
  • Religion
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of Religion

Areas of Expertise

• Cathedrals
• Pentecostalism
• Pilgrimage
• Ritual

Office: 416-978-4788
Languages: Swedish
Website
Email: simon.coleman@utoronto.ca
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Suwanda Sugunasiri

Adjunct Professor, Department of Religion, Faculty of Divinity

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Religion

Areas of Expertise

• Buddhianscience and western science
• Buddhism as religion
• Buddhism as science
• Buddhism for western society
• Buddhist education
• Buddhist meditation
• South asian canadian literature

Office: 647-267-2425
Languages: Sinhala, Pali, Sanskrit
Email: bhikkhumihita.sugunasiri@utoronto.ca
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