From July-December 2024, including books and articles as well as media coverage of faculty research and activities.
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Books
Reid Locklin's book, Hindu Mission, Christian Mission: Soundings in Comparative Theology from SUNY Press 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. → See also podcasts featuring this book
How to Love in Sanskrit, an anthology of translated love poetry from over eighty Sanskrit and Prakrit texts, is co-authored by PhD candidate Anusha Sudindra Rao. Published by HarperCollins India, it has now been released in Canada in hardback and Kindle formats. → See also the New Books Network podcast featuring this book
Articles (alphabetical by author/lead)
Affiliate faculty member Kamari Maxine Clarke is featured in “Absence of Knowledge: Recovering Lost Narratives,” an episode of Humanities at Large, the Jackman Humanities Institute podcast. She discusses her work on absences in historical knowledge and archives, particularly in the context of Black and Indigenous lives. [Nov 2024]
"Pilgrimage in a Globalizing World" by Simon Coleman has been published in in Current History (2024) 123 (856): 315–317. See also Professor Coleman's induction as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. [Nov 2024]
MA student Emily Dumais' article, “Disability and Bodily Difference in Ancient Egypt between the Second Intermediate Period and Roman Periods,” recently appeared in Vol. 14 of the Undergraduate Journal for Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations (pp 6-25). [Nov 2024]
Kenneth Green’s book, The Philosophy of Emil Fackenheim: From Revelation to the Holocaust, has been reviewed on its Marginalia Review of Books forum by James A. Diamond (University of Waterloo), “The Devastation of Philosophy: Nazi Jurisprudence, the Shoah, and Fackenheim’s Transcendental Wonder of Resistance.” He also published "Leo Strauss on Religion: Some Introductory Considerations," his Series Editor introduction for Leo Strauss on Religion: Writings and Interpretations, ed. Svetozar Minkov & Rasoul Namazi (SUNY Press, 2024). [Oct 2024]
Marsha Hewitt's "Trance, Dreams, and Possession: A Comparative Psychoanalytic Study" has been published in Ideas of Possession: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives, edited by Nicole Bauer and Andrew Doole, Oxford University Press (2024). [Nov 2024]
Affiliate faculty member Ann Jervis' book, Paul and Time: Life in the Temporality of Christ, was the subject of a month-long Syndicate biblical studies forum. [Sep 2024] → See also the OnScript podcast episode devoted to discussion of the book
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. [Sep 2024]
Pamela Klassen’s chapter, “Remediating Colonialism: Stories of Gold in Harvard’s Natural History Museum,” appears in the just published Museums as Ritual Sites: Civilizing Rituals Reconsidered (Routledge). She wrote this chapter together with Claire Neid, a student in a course taught while Klassen was a Visiting Professor at Harvard. Also featured in the book are chapters by two DSR alumni, “Living with Others: Fashioning a Post-Secular Citizen in the British Museum” (Yaniv Feller, PhD, 2016) and “Scenes of Ritual Intimacy: Museums and the Display of Magical Practice” (Marisa Karyl Franz, PhD, 2019). [Oct 2024]
Affiliate faculty member Michael Lambek’s book Behind the Glass is the subject of a review symposium in the latest issue of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Michael’s recent publications also include “Kinship Conceived and Lived” in an edited collection called Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship and Care, an afterword called “Not Ethnography but Ethnosophy!” in an edited collection entitled Between Life and Thought: Existential Anthropology and the Study of Religion, and “Ethnography and Ethical Life”, a contribution to the American Ethnologist Forum: “What Good Is Anthropology? Celebrating 50 Years of American Ethnologist.” [Oct 2024]
Affiliate faculty member Valentina Napolitano's co-authored article, “Holy Infrastructures: Catholicism, Detroit Borderlands, and the Elements,”was published in Comparative Studies in Society and History in August 2024. [Oct 2024]
Ajay Rao's comments in his capacity as UTM's vice-dean of graduate studies and postdoctoral affairs feature in this article about the establishment at UTM of Ontario’s first endowed chair in Sikh studies. With $2.5 million from Dr. Davindra Singh, matched by the university for a total of $5 million, this endowment builds on the recent momentum in Sikh studies, promoting new research and advancing knowledge and outreach initiatives, including engagement with the Sikh community locally and globally. [Oct 2024]
Jeremy Schipper marked two new publications: “‘The Promises of Scripture were All for the Black People’: Sojourner Truth on the Blood of Abel and the Lamb,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 92 (2024): 130-139, and “‘The Stamp of Their Own Iniquity’: Ottobah Cugoano on the Mark of Cain, Noah’s Curse and Enslavers,” The Journal of Theological Studies 75 (2024): 291-297. [Nov 2024]
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. [Sep 2024]
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). [Sep 2024]
Kevin White's article, "The Braid of Corn: Creation, White Corn, and the Iroquois White Corn Project,” was published in Wicazo Sa Review 37, no. 1 (Spring 2022 [released 2024]): 29-52.