Advancing Studies in Religion

The Holy Spirit and the Eagle Feather traces the history of Indigenous Pentecostalism in Canada. It tells the story of how Indigenous Pentecostals overcame the entrenched colonialism of the mission-led church to become religious leaders in their own communities, as well as agents for decolonization and reconciliation.

Reimagining Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul as spiritual siblings, Prophets of Love offers an introduction to some of the latest scholarship on Paul, combatting centuries of Christian anti-Judaism, and sheds new light on the biblical worldviews and language underlying every line of Cohen’s poetry.

While Evangelicalism is known for its defence of orthodoxy and resistance to liberalizing trends, it is being reshaped by the modern zeitgeist in ways that evangelicals themselves do not realize. Offering an insider’s view into British and Canadian evangelical churches, Caught in the Current explores how and why evangelicals are changing.

Every contemporary institution has had to confront the ever-evolving technologies of the digital age. Focusing on the Catholic Church, Sacred Cyberspaces reveals how old conflicts over power, influence, and legitimacy within religious organizations unfold on the internet, shedding light on the future of religious life in the new millennium.

Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, Under Siege examines how the global war on terror and heightened anti-Muslim racism have affected millennials who were socialized into a world where their faith and identity are under attack. Jasmin Zine explores the experiences of Canadian Muslim youth to unpack the dynamics of Islamophobia.

Debates about Muslim societies have intensified in the last four decades, triggered by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and 9/11. At the heart of these assumptions is Muslim exceptionalism: the idea that Muslims think and behave differently from other faith communities. This book debunks this flawed notion by looking at religious trends in Iran since 1979.

Relation and Resistance explores the stories and lives of racialized women connected with religious diaspora communities in Canada. Contributors from across disciplines show how these women are conceptualizing traditions in transformative ways, challenging prevailing assumptions about diasporic religion as nostalgically entrenched in the past.

A compelling account of the ways that prayer shows up in public healthcare.

Examining how young adults construct their sexual, gender, and religious identities.

A frank conversation about how Christmas spurs conflict and compromise in multicultural societies.

A close investigation of a new wave of "reflexive evangelicals," whose playful critique of their own faith wins crowds.

How Buddhist immigrants in Toronto transmit their teachings and traditions to the next generation.

A compelling exploration of a new epistemic framework for Christian ethical thinking.

The first English-language volume on religion in contemporary Quebec.

Why Canadians started to walk away from organized Christianity in the 1960s and how that defection became an exodus.

A study of the poetics and hermeneutics of the Qur?an’s narrative structure, focusing on Surat al-Baqara.

Decolonizing Church brings together a diverse group of theological voices to consider Christianity in Canada from decolonial perspectives.