From July 2024 onward, including books and articles, as well as podcasts and media coverage of faculty research. For the summary of entries from January to June 2024, see the DSR Spring 2024 Roundup Newsletter.
September 2024
Chris Miller, Jackman Humanities Institute-Critical Digital Humanities Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow affiliated with the DSR and supervised by the Chair, Pamela Klassen, has been featured by A&S News. The article, “A new way to say goodbye: Inside the growing popularity of green burial,” discusses his project that examines the increasing popularity of alternatives to traditional approaches to funerary practices.
Affiliate faculty member Ann Jervis was the featured guest on an OnScript podcast in a discussion of her book, Paul and Time. Her book is also the subject of a month-long Syndicate biblical studies forum.
Naomi Seidman’s co-organized conference, “After Orthodoxy: Cultural Creativity and the Break with Tradition,” took place September 15 and 16, 2024 in New York. Co-organized under the auspices of Naomi’s SSHRC Connections grant, the conference included a presentation by DSR PhD student Amy Jemmett and the participation of DSR MA student Chana Weiss. An article in NY Jewish Week, “A NYC conference celebrates the cultural creativity of formerly Orthodox Jews,” includes an interview with Naomi and co-organizer Zalman Newfield (Hunter College).
J. Barton Scott’s book, Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India, has been recognized with its own forum in the prestigious Marginalia Review of Books, which includes reflections on the book by an interdisciplinary panel of scholars.
Reid Locklin guested on two podcasts, discussing his book Hindu Mission, Christian Mission: Soundings in Comparative Theology (see July below), with New Books in Indian Religions and Multifaith Matters.
PhD candidate Paul Kim's first publication, “Kant and the Moral Need to Limit Theoretical Reason: An Expansion of Hare's Concept of Rational Instability," was published in the March 2024 issue of Toronto Journal of Theology.
PhD candidate Sudindra Rao's book, How to Love in Sanskrit, an anthology of translated love poetry from over eighty Sanskrit and Prakrit texts, was released in early 2024 (HarperCollins India). In August 2024. the book was released in Kindle and hardback formats in Canada.
August 2024
Jeremy Schipper was interviewed about his book, Denmark Vesey’s Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial, for the New Books Network podcast. >> Listen
The August 2024 edition of the Buddhist Studies Footnotes podcast episode, “Buddhist environmental ethics for a more-than-human world,” produced by Frances Garrett, features a conversation with Colin Simons, Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Alberta. >> Listen
July 2024
Reid Locklin's book, Hindu Mission, Christian Mission: Soundings in Comparative Theology was published in May 2024 by SUNY Press, and offers a new, interreligious approach to questions of mission and conversion, grounded in a close study of the Chinmaya Mission, Ramakrishna Mission and other movements associated with the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta.