Religious conflict and violence

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online