The interdisciplinary study of Christianity in late antique, medieval, early modern, and modern settings, with attention to transformations and continuities in Christian thought and practice. Methods include historical, ethnographic, social-scientific, and philosophical approaches. Faculty expertise encompasses Christianity’s Mediterranean origins and its movements and variations throughout Europe and the Americas in particular, as well as Christianity’s global influences and interactions. Current faculty interests include areas such as ritual, politics and public life, gender and the body, interreligious engagements, media and material culture, textual analysis, healing, institutional life, and lay movements.
Christianity Faculty
Ann Dooley, Centre for Medieval Studies
Hillary Cunningham, Department of Anthropology
Isabelle Cochelin, Department of History
Nicholas Everett, Department of History
John Kloppenborg, Centre for the Study of Religion
Joseph Bryant, Centre for the Study of Religion
Joseph Goering, Department of History
Judith Newman, Centre for the Study of Religion
Juri Kivimae, Department of History
Ken Mills, Department of History
Konrad Eisenbichler, Department of Renaissance Studies
Larry Schmidt, Centre for the Study of Religion
Mark Meyerson, Department of History
Marsha Hewitt, Faculty of Divinity
Nicholas Terpstra, Deptartment of History
Phyllis Airhart, Department of History
Robert Sinkewicz, Centre for the Study of Religion
John Marshall, Centre for the Study of Religion
Stephen Scharper, Department of Anthropology
Terence Donaldson, Faculty of Divinity
Thomas McIntire
Amir Harrak, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
Mark McGowan, Department of History
Pamela Klassen, Centre for the Study of Religion
Jennifer Harris, St. Michael’s College
Reid Locklin, St. Michael’s College
Kevin O’Neill, Centre for the Study of Religion
Simon Coleman, Centre for the Study of Religion
Ruth Marshall, Centre for the Study of Religion
Girish Daswani