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ANCTIL, Pierre »


Pierre Anctil

Full professor
Faculty of Arts
History

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (1289)
Cell: 514-261-5265
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Website

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Cell Telephone

Research information:

My research bears on the different aspects of Canadian identity and on the emergence of a field of research specifically dealing with Canada. I am also interested on ethnicity in Canada, issues on a Quebec and national level, election results in Quebec and Canada, on the Jewish community of Canada and Montréal, and more precisely on anti-Semitism, secularism, linguistic integration and racism in Canadian society. I also specialize on Canadian Yiddish literature and Canadian Yiddish culture.

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English and French , Yiddish

ANDERSON, Emma »


Full Professor
Faculty of Arts
Classics and Religious Studies

Contact information:

Office: (613) 562-5800 X1176
E-mail:
Website Includes CV, syllabi, media interviews

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

  • Contemporary Roman Catholicism
  • The papacy of Pope Francis I
  • The history of Catholicism in Canada
  • Indigenous peoples and the ongoing impact of residential schools
  • First Nations' relationship with the Catholic Church (historically and contemporaneously)
  • Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
  • Missionaries and Indigenous peoples in seventeenth-century Canada
  • Traditional Indigenous spiritualities
  • Indigenous Catholicism
  • Indigenous pilgrimages in Canada
  • The role of Saint Anne in Indigenous Catholicism
  • Popular and "lived" religion
  • Catholic veneration of the Virgin Mary and of saints
  • Relics and miracles
  • The canonization process in the Catholic Church
  • Christian martyrdom
  • Jean de Brébeuf and the cult of the North American Martyrs
  • Catholic shrines and pilgrimages
  • Marian apparitions (visions of the Virgin Mary)
  • Vatican II and the Quiet Revolution in Quebec
  • Multiculturalism and religion in contemporary Canada

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Language preference:

English and French

BASALAMAH, Salah »


Salah Basalamah

Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts
School of Translation and Interpretation

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (3139)
Cell: 613-265-7252
E-mail:
Website

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Office Telephone

Research information:

Philosophy of Translation Translation and Copyright Intercultural Communication and Mediation Social Translation Islam and Secularism, Western Islam, and Religion in the Public Sphere Muslim Activism, Islamism and Religious Pluralism Quran Translation and Interpretation.

Areas of expertise: Islam religion and interfaith dialogue.

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English and French , Arabe (classique et dialectes orientaux)

DE KERCKHOVE, Ferry »


Senior fellow
Faculty of Social Sciences
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (4852)
Cell: 613-400-2414
Home: 613-421-8263
E-mail:

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Cell Telephone

Research information:

My diplomatic career has exposed me to the Muslim World (Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia) and to the Arab world (Egypt), as well as to Russia and to Security issues (NATO). Of course, with 38 years of experience in Foreign Affairs, I do have a solid background onn Canadian Foreign Policy. I have been involved in policy planning (both political and trade) for over 6 years during my career at DFAIT. I have contributed a number of TV and Radio interviews on issues related to all facets of my experience and have written a number of pieces and comments at conferences all over Canada and abroad. As the Executive Vice President of the Conference of Defence Associations Institute, and the co-author of "Canada's Strategic Outlook" of the CDAI for 2013 and 2014, I am also involved in Canada's defence policy. I write as well for CDFAI and for CIPS.

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English and French , Spanish; some Russian

LALIBERTÉ, André »


André Laliberté

Full professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8913)
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Website

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E-mail, Office Telephone

Research information:

My research is on the issue of relations between state and religion in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Eats Asia, within the contexts of an analysis of social policy and welfare regimes, the study of identity politics and nationalism, and the examination of political change.

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English and French , Mandarin

MASAELI, Mahmoud »


Replacement Professor
Assistant professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of International Development and Global Studies

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (4979)
E-mail:
Website

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

Areas of interest and concentration include globalization and global ethics; ethics of global development, dialogical ethics; theories of global justice, and justice as recognition. In addition, he holds a special interest in the esoteric dimension of faith traditions, notably Islamic spirituality, since he believes that these spiritual approaches can potentially complete and strength dialogical perspectives in the lifeworld.

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English only, Farsi (Persian)

MEUNIER, Martin »


Sociologue
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Sociology

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (2045)
Cell: 613-606-3011
E-mail:

Preferred method s of contact:

Office Telephone, Cell Telephone, E-mail

Research information:

Sociologie des religions, en particulier l'analyse du catholicisme au 20e siècle et des liens entre religions et les phénomènes modernes (laïcité, nouveaux groupes religieux, etc).Le cas québécois; son histoire et son devenir. Intellectuels québécois au 20e siècle.

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Français seulement

PETTIPIECE, Timothy »


Part-time professor
Faculty of Arts
Classics and Religious Studies

Contact information:

Office: 8199628507
Office: 8199628507
Cell: 8199628507
Home: 8199628507
E-mail:
Website

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

My research focuses on religion in the ancient world, particularly in the Roman and Persian empires. I work primarily on Gnostic and Manichaean texts.

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English only

REINHARTZ, Adele »


Full professor
Faculty of Arts
Classics and Religious Studies

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (1339)
E-mail:
Website

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

Two main areas of expertise: the history and literature of early Christianity particularly in its relationship to early Judaism; and the use of the Bible in film.

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English only

THIBAULT, Hélène »


PhD student
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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E-mail

Research information:

Specializing in the politics of the former Soviet Union, especially Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan). In particular, I'm interested in the impact of Soviet communism on the development of post-Soviet religious and secular identities.

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English and French , Russe

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