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Spotlight on J. Barton Scott's project "The Piercing Virtue: Isherwood’s Guru in Adorno’s Los Angeles"

January 12, 2024

J. Barton Scott (Ph.D. Religion, Duke University, 2009) is Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion (St George) and the Department of Historical Studies (UTM).

J. Barton Scott and book cover of Slandering the Sacred

Slandering the Sacred – Can Secular Law Prevent Religious Insult?

June 15, 2023

J. Barton Scott is a scholar of modern South Asian religions – modern Hinduism in particular – with interests in colonialism, postcolonial theory, and the history of secularism.

Cult of the Dead book cover, and author Kyle Smith

Bloody persuasion, persecution and plague protection

November 04, 2022

We sat down with DSR associate professor and director of the History of Religions program at UTM Kyle Smith to talk about his new book,

The skeletons in Halloween's closet

October 19, 2022

Every October 31, when the pumpkins and black cats emerge, we hear that Halloween owes its origins to Samhain, the old Celtic harvest holiday when the veil separating the living and dead thins enough to be permeable.

Affiliate faculty member Ken Derry wins U of T's highest teaching honour

June 29, 2022

Joy, playfulness and inclusivity – these are the qualities UTM's Ken Derry strives to bring to the classroom and to his collaboration with colleagues, and it’s an approach that has earned the historical studies professor t

"What is happiness? Do you even want to be happy?" Fundamental questions from Kevin O'Neill

April 06, 2022

Kevin O'Neill's “Happiness” course couldn't be timelier in today's unsettled world.

What is happiness? Are you happy? Do you even want to be happy?

We asked Professor

New DSR course examines different ways "The Bible" could have turned out

June 30, 2021

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