2012/13 Fellows-in-residence

Martin Adam
(Pacific and Asian Studies, Religious Studies)

Action and Agency in Early Buddhist Ethics

Megan Swift
(Germanic and Slavic Studies)

Drawing an Atheist Paradise: Soviet Book Illustrations and The Battle for the Fairytale in Leninist and Stalinist Society, 1917-53

Abdelmadjid Benhabib
(University of Tlemcen, Algeria)

A Study About Noah’s Story in the Qur’anic Text

Judith Berman
(University of Pennsylvania)

Indigenous Perspectives on Religion: George Hunt’s Unpublished Manuscripts on the Kwakwaka’wakw Winter Ceremonial

Bruce Bryant-Scott
(University of Wales)

Interruption: The Implications of the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas for Christian Theology in Canada

Elizabeth DeVolder
(University of BC)

The Silver Lining: Neoliberalism, Philanthropy and the Marketing of Hope

Mathew Guest
(Durham University)

Christianity and the University Experience in Contemporary England

William James
(Queen’s University)

Religious Diversity in English Canadian Fiction in the 21st Century

Nathan Loewen
(Vanier College)

Teaching a Global Introduction to the Philosophy of Religions

Megan Macdonald
(University of London)

The Performance of Religious Identity: Embodied, Material, Temporal

Mohammad Molavi
(Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran)

A Comparative Study on the Position of Hadith in the Modern Qur'ānic Commentaries: (Fī- zilāl - el- Qur'ān; Al- minār, min- vahyi el- Qur'ān, and Al-furqān) as Case Studies

Muhammad Said
(State College for Islamic Studies, Indonesia)

Interest and Riba in Islamic Financial Business Institutions: The Perspective of Ethico-Legal Hermeneutics

Rinku Lamba
(Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)

Bhakti and the Shaping of Social Imaginaries in Colonial India

Celeste Pedri
(Beader)

maziniminensikaan: Performing Ojibwe Spirituality Through the Art of Traditional Beading

Tamsin Jones
(Religious Studies)

Beyond Truth: Trauma Theory and Religious Experience

Ben Wood
(University of Toronto)

Non-Sectarianism and Soteriology in Tibetan Buddhism According to Losel Tengyong (b. 1804) 

Gaelan Gilbert
(PhD Candidate, English)

Political Ecology and Future Community in the Later Middle Ages

Chihiro Saka
(MA Candidate, Pacific and Asian Studies)

Exploring a Women’s Position in Buddhist History: Kumano bikuni’s Appropriation of Buddhism to the Needs of Women in Medieval Japan

Caleb Langille
(MA Candidate, English)

Ethical Monstrosity or Dis-Enclosure?: Christianity as Radical Politics in Two Movements

Alison Murray
(MA Candidate, History)

Christianity, Medicine and Agency: Monstrous Births in Early Modern France

Emily Smith
(MA Candidate, English)

Edification Without Assurance Vayleth Not Much”: Predestination and Incarnation in Sixteenth-Century Reformation Drama

Justine Semmens
(PhD Candidate, History)

The Shifting Dynamics of Sexual Deviance in Catholic Reformation France, 1550-1650