Faculty and Staff

Eleanor Akins

  • sessional lecturer (Luther College)
  • BA, Regina; MA, Regina

Current Classes

  • RLST 100 (Spring, 2010)

Brenda Anderson

Member
  • Assistant Professor (Luther College)
  • Cross appointed - Women's and Gender Studies and Religious Studies
  • PhD (ABD), Regina

Research Interests

  • Women in religion, specifically * feminist theories and practices in interreligious dialogue * feminist, post-colonial studies * women in Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism * mythic biographies and performative autobiographies

Leona Anderson

Member
  • Professor
  • Department Head
  • PhD, McMaster

Research Interests

  • Sanskrit, Religion in India, Cuba, and China, Ritual and Iconography, Gender, Popular Culture

Current Classes

  • Hinduism, Sanskrit, New Religions, Religion and Popular Culture, Goddesses

William Arnal

Member
  • Associate Professor
  • PhD, Toronto

Research Interests

  • New Testament, Ancient Religions

Current Classes

  • New Testament, Method and Theory, Coptic, and ancient Roman and Hellenistic religion in general.

Kevin Bond

Member
  • Assistant Professor
  • PhD, McMaster

Research Interests

  • Japanese Religions

Current Classes

  • Buddhism, Japanese Religions, Religion and Asian Cinema

Benjamin Fiore

Member
  • Professor (Campion College)
  • President of Campion College
  • PhD, Yale

Research Interests

  • New Testament, Christianity

Current Classes

  • New Testament, Christianity

Michelle Folk

Member
  • Sessional Lecturer
  • PhD candidate (Concordia)

Research Interests

  • Hinduism, Tamil Shaivism, Asceticism, Gender, Identity Constructoin, the Human Body

Current Classes

  • RLST 100 (Introduction to World Religions), Summer 2010

FranzVolker Greifenhagen

Member
  • Associate Professor (Luther College)
  • PhD, Duke

Current Classes

  • Islam, Hebrew Bible, Comparative scriptures

Kirsten Hansen

Member
  • Sessional Lecturer (Luther College)
  • PhD Candidate, Concordia University

Research Interests

  • Hinduism, Comparative Religion, Witchcraft, Historiography, Gender, Categorization, Post-Colonialism

Current Classes

  • RLST 100

Bryan Hillis

Member
  • Professor (Luther College)
  • PhD, Chicago

Research Interests

  • Christianity

Current Classes

  • Christianity, Religion in Canada, Bible

Richard Hordern

Member
  • Professor (Luther College)
  • PhD, New York

Research Interests

  • Christianity

Current Classes

  • Christianity, Liberation Theology

Darlene Juschka

Member
  • Associate Professor
  • Coordinator - Women's and Gender Studies
  • Cross appointed Women's and Gender Studies and Religious Studies
  • BA, Classics, University of Waterloo, MA, Religion and Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University, PhD, Religious Studies, University of Toronto

Research Interests

  • Feminist methods, theories, and epistemologies; popluar culture; globalization; feminist history; gender and sexuality studies (ancient and modern); approaches to the study of religion; symbol, myth, and ritual (ancient and modern); folk religions, shamanism, and possession; cross cultural study of religion, ancient Greek and Roman religions; ritual associated with death and burial (ancient and modern)

Jacoba Kuikman

Member
  • Associate Professor (Campion College)
  • PhD, Toronto School of Theology

Current Classes

  • Contemporary Judaism, Holocaust, Zionism

Andrew Lawn

Member
  • Sessional Lecturer
  • MA, Washington University St. Louis

Research Interests

  • Social and Intellectual History of Islam, Religion and Science, Judaism and Islam in Comparative Perspective, Contemporary Middle East and Central Asia

Current Classes

  • RLST 100

Cordelia McDonald

  • Staff Member
  • Religious Studies support staff

Wendy R. Preikchat

  • sessional lecturer
  • BA (Honours), Regina; MA, Wilfrid Laurier

Current Classes

  • RLST 100 (winter 2010)

Yuan Ren

Member
  • Associate Professor
  • PhD, McMaster

Current Classes

  • East Asian religions, Confucianism, Storytelling in Asian religious traditions and Classical Chinese language.