Donald Wiebe’s primary areas of research interest are philosophy of the social sciences, epistemology, philosophy of religion, the history of the academic and scientific study of religion, and method and theory in the study of religion. He is the author of Religion and Truth: Towards and Alternative Paradigm for the Study of Religion (1981), The Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought (1991), Beyond Legitimation: Essays on the Problem of Religious Knowledge (1994), and The Politics of Religious Studies: The Continuing Conflict with Theology in the Academy (1999). He has edited several books and sets of congress proceedings, and edits the series Toronto Studies in Religion for Peter Lang Press. In 1985 Dr. Wiebe, with Luther H. Martin and E. Thomas Lawson, founded the North American Association for the Study of Religion, which became affiliated to the IAHR in 1990; he twice served as President of that Association (1986-87, 1991-92).
Trinity College
BTh (Mennonite Brethren), BA (Wilfred Laurier), MA (Guelph), PhD (Lancaster)
Room 327, Larkin Building
tel: (416) 978-2567
email: dwiebe@trinity.utoronto.ca
Areas of research
philosophy of the social sciences, epistemology, philosophy of religion, the history of the academic and scientific study of religion, and method and theory in the study of religion.
Selected publications
editor, TORONTO STUDIES IN RELIGION (Peter Lang Press)
The Politics of Religious Studies: The Continuing Conflict with Theology in the Academy (1999)
Beyond Legitimation: Essays on the Problem of Religious Knowledge (1994)
The Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought (1991)
Religion and Truth: Towards and Alternative Paradigm for the Study of Religion (1981)