Department for the Study of Religion U of T

06/24/2021

"If you look at QAnon as a scholar of religion...that's where the interest is: how did this historically come to be and what function does it fulfill?" Suzanne van Geuns - DSR PhD student

Suzanne van Geuns is a doctoral student at the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto

06/24/2021

DSR undergraduate specialist, Mukti Patel, finds religion in less than obvious places.

Mukti Patel is an undergraduate specialist in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto

06/17/2021

"Modern parenting is this really charged enterprise...I'm interested in exploring how religion shows up here." Sadaf Ahmed PhD student at the DSR

Sadaf Ahmed is a PhD student in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto

06/15/2021

"Sometimes we take a critical eye toward religious actors, in spite of the fact that religion is what we study." - Edward Escalon Jr. PhD student at the DSR

Edward Escalon Jr. is a PhD student in the Department for the Study of Religion at University of Toronto

06/10/2021

“To get to the heart of Buddhism you need to know the language." DSR Pali language course gives insight into Buddhist teachings.

Until recently, Andrea Taylor, an international corporate tax lawyer, didn’t envision herself sitting in an introductory language class, certainly not to learn a language considered ancient and rarely spoken in modern day. “I never thought 10 years ago I’d be taking a Pali course,” she says.

05/19/2021

Understand religion, understand the world. Members of the DSR explain what the Study of Religion is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apstf8k1smE&t=22s

Department for the Study of Religion

05/12/2021

Why study religion? Let the DSR explain (in one minute or less!)

Why study religion?

01/17/2021

In the Ho Centre's recent podcast episode, Learning about Black Buddhist Dharma Teachers and Healing Justice, host Sarah Richardson talks to Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad about her research on how Black Buddhist teachers are changing Buddhist institutions in North America and contemporary Buddhist teachings.

Episode 14 – Rima Vesely-Flad, Learning about Black Buddhist Dharma Teachers and Healing Justice Description Rima Vesely-Flad teaches at Warren Wilson College exploring the intersections of Buddhism, race, and gender. Her teaching is deeply entwined with her current research on Buddhist teachers o...

01/07/2021

The DSR's Erin Vearncombe's fascinating course, 'Museums and Material Religion', course gets profiled by U of T Arts & Science

Erin Vearncombe earned her PhD from the Department for the Study of Religion in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto and was a lecturer at Princeton University for five years before returning to U of T. She is currently an assistant professor, teaching stream in the Faculty’s...

12/09/2020

DSR prof. Libby Mills noticed something unusual in her Intro to Sanskrit class: comp sci students!

Libbie Mills, an assistant professor in the department for the study of religion in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts & Science, noticed something interesting this fall in her introductory Sanskrit class: computer science students.

09/08/2020

As part of , the Department for the Study of Religion, together with the Centre for Indigenous Studies, is hosting Solemn Promises on Stolen Land: Policing and Treaty-Breaking on 1492 Land Back Lane. WED @ 12:30 Live Streaming here:
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09/08/2020

Join 's Teach-in: Solemn Promises on Stolen Land: Policing and Treaty-Breaking on 1492 Land Back Lane. TOMORROW - Wed Sept 9 @ 12:30