Alan Davies
Modern Christianity and Judaism
Graeme Nicholson
BA, MA (Dalhousie), BD (Union, New York), PhD (Toronto). Department of Philosophy. Areas of research include ontology and hermeneutics, Plato, philosophical theology. Selected publications include Justifying Our Existence: An Essay in Applied Phenomenology New Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics (2009), Plato’s Phaedrus: The Philosophy of Love (1999), Illustrations of Being: Drawing Upon Heidegger and Upon Metaphysics (1992), Hans-Georg Gadamer on Education, Poetry and History (1992)
Joseph O’Connell
South Asian Religions
Peter Richardson
B.Arch. (Toronto), B.D. (Knox College), Ph.D. (Cambridge); F.R.A.I.C (Hon.); F.R.S.C., Department and Centre for the Study of Religion. Prof. Richardson’s areas of research include Christian origins in Jewish and Roman contexts; religion, archaeology, and architecture in the Eastern half of the Mediterranean during the late Hellenistic and early Roman periods. His recent publications are “Josephus’s Galilee in Life and War in Archaeological Perspective” (2001); City and Sanctuary: Religion and Architecture in the Roman Near East (2002); “Jesus and Palestinian Social Protest: Archaeological and Literary Perspectives” (2002); Building Jewish in the Roman East (2004); “Study of the Greco-Roman World” (2006); “Khirbet Qana (and Other Villages) as a Context for Jesus” (2006); “The Beginnings of Christian Anti-Judaism”(2006); (with Douglas Richardson and John de Visser) Canadian Churches, an Architectural History (2007); “Jewish Galilee, its Hellenization, Romanization, and Commercialization” (2008). Festschrift presented in 2000: (Stephen Wilson and Michel Desjardins, eds) Text and Artifact in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Peter Richardson. Contact: prchrdsn@chass.utoronto.ca
Thomas McIntire
Ph.D.(Pennsylvania), M.A. (Pennsylvania), M. Div. (Faith), B.A. (Shelton). Department and Centre for the Study of Religion. Thomas McIntire has been at the University of Toronto since 1982, where he is, in addition to Religion, cross-appointed to the Department of History, the Centre for South Asian Studies, and the Collaborative Graduate Program in Womens Studies. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, Università di Firenze, and the Université canadienne en France. Prof. McIntires’s is currently producing a critical edition of a major unpublished manuscript by Florence Nightengale, containing her philosophical and religious thought. His is also writing a World History of Modern Christianity, in connection with which he spent his last sabbatical in Rome and recently visited diverse Christian communities in China. Areas of interest include world history of modern Christianity, modern European social and religious history, historiography. His primary teaching is in World Christianity since 1750, and Historiography of Religions. Opportunities for Student Supervision/Areas of Interest include Modern Christianity, in Europe and world-wide, and history of religions. His principal publications include, 2003. Dissenting History, Dissenting Religion: the Unsettling Thought of Herbert Butterfield. (Yale), 2001. “From Church and State to Religions as Public Life in Modern Europe“, 1999. “Secularization, Secular Religions, and Religious Pluralism in European and North American Societies“, 1998. The Parish and Cathdral of St. James, Toronto, 1797-1997, (co-author) (winner of the Kilbourn Award), 1998. Women in the Life of St. James’ Cathedral, Toronto, 1935-1998, 1997. “Changing Religious Establishments and Religious Liberty in France, Part1, 1787-1789“, 1997. “Changing Religious Establishments and Religious Liberty in France, Part 2, 1879-1908“. Contact: Victoria College, Northrup Frye, Rm. 323, tel: 416-585-4442 or 416-978-5938, Fax: 416-978-1610, email: ct.mcintire@utoronto.ca
William Callahan
Early Modern Western Christianity