Completed Dissertations
Dissertations by our graduates are available through Theses Canada and the University of Toronto library system. Most PhD Dissertations and Master’s theses completed since 2008 are also available on T-Space.
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Department for the Study of Religion
Nicholas Field

(July 2024) Halfway between Peking and Western Europe”: Imperial Knowledge Creation and the Geography of Buddhism in Sir Aurel Stein’s Last Major Maps of China

Supervisor: Frances Garrett Nabeel Jafri

(July 2024) Orating Knowledge: Urdu Shiʿi Khiṭābat in Contemporary Karachi

Supervisor: Karen G. Ruffle SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Liwen Liu

(May 2024) Justifying Violence: Ritual and Doctrine of Sacrificial Killing in Medieval Hindu Traditions

Supervisor: Srilata Raman Andrea Wollein

(May 2024) Inhabiting the Past, Building the Future: Spatializing History at a Newar Buddhist Monastery

Supervisor: Christoph Emmrich Filip Andjelkovic

(May 2024) Data Dreams: Algorithmic Realism at the End of the Future

Supervisor: Marsha Hewitt Danielle Baillargeon

(April 2024) From Pietas and Pity to Purification: The Transformation of the Meaning of Mourning in Late Antiquity

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Anna Cwikla

(April 2024) Placeholders, Lessons, and Emasculators: The Literary Function of Women in Early Christian Texts

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Sara Hamed

(December 2023) Making Tradition Possible in Canada: Islamic Organizations and the Problem of Commitment

Supervisor: Amira Mittermaier Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto Institute for Islamic Studies Eric Farr

(October 2023) Public Schooling and the Spirit of Secularism: The Secular Dynamics of Education Reform in Canada's 1960s

Supervisor: Simon Coleman Michelle Christian

(July 2023) Enslaved to mammon: Money, economy, and enslavement in ancient Christianity

Supervisor: Andreas Bendlin Tamara Cohen

(April 2023) Yoga in the Mokṣopāya

Supervisors: Srilata Raman and Jurgen Hanneder Kunga Sherab

(April 2023) Incarnation on the Roof of the World: A History of Practices to Identify Trülku (sprul sku) in Tibetan Buddhism

Supervisor: Frances Garrett Roxanne Korpan

(February 2023) Scriptural Relations: The Anishinaabemowin Bible Translations of Kahkewaquonaby (Reverend Peter Jones) and Visions of Christian Co-Existence in Upper Canada, 1828-1856

Supervisor: Pamela Klassen Archipel Research and Consulting (historical researcher, writer and educator) Anthony Scott

(January 2023) The Politics of Commentary: The Mingun Jetavana Sayadaw’s Milindapañhā-aṭṭhakathā in Mid-twentieth-century Burma

Supervisor: Christoph Emmrich Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Kyle Derkson

(December 2022) Canada’s Hot Little Prophet?: Walt Whitman, Richard Bucke, Psychiatry, and Metaphysical Religions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

Co-supervisors: Ken Derry and Jennifer Harris Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Calgary Vincent Calabrese

(December 2022) Michael Wyschogrod and Jewish Existentialism

Supervisor: David Novak Rabbinical student in the Advanced Kollel the Hadar Institute Rachelle Saruya

(November 2022) Towards the Noble Royal Flower: Myanmar Buddhist Nuns’ Educational Practices and Rituals in Training

Supervisor: Christoph Emmrich Early Career Research Fellowship from the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies Annie Heckman

(November 2022) Reassembling Discipline: Bu ston Rin chen grub’s Collection of Incidents Involving Nuns from the Vinaya (ʼDul ba dge slong maʼi gleng ʼbum)

Co-supervisors: Amanda Goodman and Shayne Clarke Associate Translator for 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha Amin Mansouri

(August 2022) Azīz-i Nasafī (fl. 7th/13th c.), Hierarchies, and Islamic Cosmopolitanism

Supervisor: Shafique Virani Assistant Professor of Islamic History, Central Washington University Ariel Peckel

(August 2022) Irreligious Naturalism in Hume, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein

Supervisor: James DiCenso Postdoctoral Fellow, Department for the Study of Religion/Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto Suzanne van Geuns

(August 2022) Seductive Methods: Sexual Success in the Computational Imagination

Supervisor: Pamela Klassen Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Culture, Society, and Religion, Princeton University Brigidda Bell

(August 2022) Signs of the Spirit(s): Credibility and the Discernment of Truth in Christian Prophets and other Ritual Experts of the Roman Empire

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Assistant Professor of New Testament, Moravian Seminary Kalpesh Bhatt

(August 2022) The Internal Turn: Rethinking Autonomy through the Swaminarayan Hindu Tradition

Supervisor: Srilata Raman Assistant Professor in Asian Religions at the University of Mary Washington Judith Ellen Brunton

(June 2022) Pandemonium of Hope: Oil, Aspiration, and the Good Life in Alberta

Supervisor: Pamela Klassen Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University Weatherhead Center, Canada Program Zoe Anthony

(January 2022) Suffering Time: Nietzsche and the Generativity of Suffering

Supervisor: James DiCenso Sessional Instructor, University of Toronto Adil Mawani

(December 2021) Devotion in Colonial Islam: Representations of Muḥammad in Urdu Sīra (1842 –1914)

Co-supervisors: Walid Saleh and Ayesha Irani

Lecturer, Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University

Maria Dasios

(December 2021) Compound Natures, Cognate Medicines: Material Media and Christian Soul-Direction in Late Antique Anatolia

Supervisor: Kyle Smith

Postdoctoral Fellow, FLIP Project, University of Toronto Mississauga

Khalidah Ali

(December 2021) The Early Muslim Brotherhood: Tarbiyah as the Foundation of Hasan al-Banna’s Project of Islamic Revival and Reform

Supervisor: Amira Mittermaier Lecturer at University of Toronto (UTM) Usmon Boron

(November 2021) In the Shadow of Tradition: Soviet Secularism, Islamic Revival, and Skepticism in Kyrgyzstan

Supervisor: Amira Mittermaier Postdoctoral fellow at UC-Berkeley Jonathan Peterson

(November 2021) Polemics and Power in Early Modern South Asia,1550-1700

Supervisor: Ajay Rao Assistant Professor, MESAAS, Columbia University Alexander O'Neill

(November 2021)

Pustaka Pūjā: A Study of Sūtra Worship in Mahāyāna Buddhism

Supervisor: Christoph Emmrich

Tenure-Track lecturer at Musashino University in Tokyo starting April 2024 (was Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at SOAS) Delbar Khakzad

(November 2021)

Iranian Calendric Modernity

Co-supervisors: Amira Mittermaier and Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

Postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University Patrick Stange

(November 2021)

Partakers in Paideia: Representations of Literacy in the Epigraphy of Christians in Central Asia Minor

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg

Researcher with MotivBase Nika Kuchuk

(September 2021)

Genealogies of Transnational Religion: Translation, Revelation, and Discursive Technologies in Two Female Gurus of Esoteric Vedanta

Supervisor: Srilata Raman

Joud Al Korani

(August 2021)

Dubai Detours: Being Muslim after the Islamic Revival and Arab Spring

Supervisor: Amira Mittermaier

Assistant Professor, Department of Islam Studies at Radboud University, Netherlands. January-June 2022, a postdoctoral fellowship at the Orient-Institut in Beirut David Belfon

(August 2021)

Jewish Geographies: Spatial Narratives of Orthodox Jewish Leavetakers in Toronto

Supervisor: Simon Coleman

Freelance Research Analyst Andrew Erlich

(August 2021)

Contextualizing Medicine and its Roles in Seventeenth-Century Tibet

Supervisor: Frances Garrett

Sean Capener

(July 2021)

The Time That Belongs to God: The Christian Prohibition on Usury in the 12th-13th Centuries and the Making of the Subject of Debt

Supervisor: Ruth Marshall

Postdoctoral Researcher, Dartmouth College

(formerly: Henry N.R. Jackman Junior Fellow in the Humanities at the Jackman Humanities Institute)

Joel Richmond

(June 2021)

Al-Ghazālī’s Moral Psychology: From Self-Control to Self-Surrender

Supervisor: Walid Saleh

Instructor (Religious Studies), Toronto Metropolitan University

Brian Carwana

(November 2020)

Evangelicals, the Liberal State, and Canada’s Family Values Debates: The Struggle to Shape Selves

Supervisors: Simon Coleman and Joe Bryant

Executive Director of Encounter World Religions https://religionsgeek.com Meaghan Weatherdon

(October 2020)

The Rise of Nishiyuu: Walking the Land for Self-Determination

Supervisor: Pamela Klassen

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of San Diego

Sara Abdel-Latif

(July 2020)

Islam

Gendering Asceticism in Medieval Sufism

Supervisor: Walid Saleh

Assistant Professor, McGill University

Rony Kozman

(June 2020)

Jewish Studies

Adam's Wisdom and Israel's Law: Natural Law in Early Judaism

Supervisor: Judith Newman

Assistant Professor, Department of Biblical and Religious Studies, Samford University, Birmingham Alabama

Elizabeth Klaiber-Noble

(June 2020)

Book History and the English Reformation

Book-Burning and the Banning of Books and Authors in England, 1526–1558: A Sixteenth-Century Fire-Library

Supervisor: David Galbraith and Pamela Klassen

Gregory Fewster (December 2019)

Forgers and Critics of the corpus Paulinum: Manuscripts and Critical Scholarship from Ancient Alexandria to the Republic of Letters and Beyond

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg

Postdoctoral Fellow in History of Religions, Norwegian School of Theology

(formerly: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Classics, University of Toronto)

Nathan Bonney (December 2019)

Religion, Ethics, and Modern Thought

A Figure of Rhetoric: Holiness, Hyperbole, and Embodied Subjectivity in the Later Writings of Emmanuel Levinas

Supervisor: Ruth Marshall

More than a Roof Housing Society Ian Brown (November 2019)

Christianity The Pepaideumenoi and Jesus: Ancient Education and Marginal Intellectuals in Paul’s Corinth and the Gospel of Thomas

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Religious Studies, University of Regina Ashoor Yousif (November 2019) Allah’s Caliph and Christ’s Apostle: The Early Abbasid Rulers in Syriac and Syro-Arabic Sources

Supervisor: Amir Harrak

Assistant Professor of Christian History and Director of the MTS Modular Program at Tyndale University

Andrew Tebbutt (November 2019) The Divinity of Conscience: Forgiveness, Religion, and the Politics of Secularity in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

Supervisor: James DiCenso

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Trinity Christian College

(formerly:Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Centre for Philosophy, Religion, and Social Ethics at the Institute for Christian Studies)

Sean Hillman (August 2019)

South Asian Studies; Religion and Medicine; Religion, Ethics, and Modern Thought Religion, Medicine, Bioethics, and the Law in End-of-Life Care: South Asian Religious Adherent Perspectives

Supervisor: Frances Garrett Clinical Ethicist at the Centre for Clinical Ethics at Lakeridge Health in Oshawa Janina Sochaczewski (August 2019)

Religion, Ethics, Modern Thought Sacred Trauma: Religion, Trauma Transmission, and the Attribution of Meaning in the Age of Totalitarianism

Supervisor: Marsha Hewitt Instructor, Bishop's University, Quebec Marisa Franz (August 2019)

Religion, Culture, Politics A Gathering of Names: On the Categories and Collections of Siberian Shamanic Materials in Late Imperial Russian Museum, 1880-1910

Supervisor: Pamela Klassen

Clinical Associate Professor of Museum Studies at New York University

Cole Sadler (June 2019) The Aesthetic Versus Aesthetics: Emmanuel Levinas’ Critique of Mediation

Supervisor: David Novak Tzemah Yoreh (June 2019)

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity A Compositional History of Ben Sira in the Context of the Transmission of Instruction Literature in the Ancient Mediterranean

Supervisors: John Kloppenborg and Judith Newman Leader of the City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism in New York Christopher Cornthwaite (May 2019)

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity A Goddess in the Caravans and a Saviour in the Hulls: Worship and Migration in Athens, Delos, and Corinth

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Founder of Roostervane and co-founder of Think House. Nigel Fernando (Jan 2019)

Religion, Ethics, and Modern Thought Thomas Hobbes: The Kingdom of Darkness and the Critique of the Catholic Tradition

Supervisor: James DiCenso Faculty at Brescia University College Catherine Lemieux (Nov 2018)

Anthropology Mastering the Body: From Experience to Discourse. Shamanic Healing in Urban Canada

Supervisors: Kevin O'Neill and Gilles Bibeau French Science Editor and Translator, Ontario Science Centre Rami Tanous (Sept 2018)

Ancient Christianity and Early Islam Negotiating the Nativity in Late Antiquity: The Qur’ān’s Rereading of Mary’s Preparation for the Conception of Jesus

Supervisor: Walid Saleh Visiting Scholar, Haifa University Jessica Radin (July 2018)

Judaism and Islam Excavating the Imagination: The Arabic Afterlife of Aristotle's Phantasia

Supervisor: Kenneth Green Adjunct Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University

Greg Beiles (June 2018)

Judaism The Parent-Child Relationship as a Paradigm for Teaching and Learning in Rosenzweig and Levinas

Supervisors: David Novak and Robert Gibbs Head of School and Principal, The Toronto Heschel School; Director, The Lola Stein Institute Shaftolu Gulamadov (April 2018)

Islam The Hagiography of Nasir-i Khusraw and the Ismailis of Badakhshan

Supervisor: Shafique Virani Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Iranian Studies, University of Toronto Arun Brahmbhatt (March 2018)

South Asian Studies Scholastic Publics: Sanskrit Textual Practices in Gujarat, 1800-Present

Supervisor: Ajay Rao Assistant Professor of Religion with a focus on Hindu Studies, Syracuse University Luiz Felipe Ribeiro (September 2018)

Ancient Christianity and Judaism "The Wearisome Spectacle of Immortal Sin": an Affect History of the Libidinisation of Desire in Mediterranean Antiquity

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Research Fellow, Ancient Studies Department, Stellenbosch University Justin Stein (September 2017)

Religion and Medicine Hawayo Takata and the Circulatory Development of Reiki in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific

Supervisor: Pamela Klassen Faculty Member, Asian Studies, Kwantlen Polytechnic University Aldea Mulhern (September 2017)

Islam Fit for Food: "Eating Jewishly" and the "Islamic Paradigm" as Emergent Religious Foodways in Toronto

Supervisor: Pamela Klassen Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Fresno State Jairan Gahan (September 2017)

Islam Red-Light Tehran: Prostitution, Intimately Public Islam, and the Rule of the Sovereign, 1910-1980

Supervisor: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta T. Paul York (September 2017)

Religion, Ethics, and Modern Thought Kant's Philosophy of Religion and Climate Change

Supervisor: James DiCenso Dianna Roberts-Zauderer (August 2017)

Jewish Studies 'The Motive for Metaphor': Metaphor and Imagination in Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera

Supervisor: Jill Ross Youcef Soufi (April 2017)

Islam Pious Critique: Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī and the 11th Century Practice of Juristic Disputation (Munāẓara)

Supervisor: Anver Emon Assistant Professor, Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia Mourad Laabdi (April 2017)

Islam The Other Averroes: Revealed Law and the Craft of Disagreement

Supervisor: Walid Saleh Instructor, Religion, Carleton University Jennifer Bright (January 2017)

Buddhist Studies Women and Hormones in Tibetan Medical Literature

Supervisor: Frances Garrett Spiritual and Religious Care Intern at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Sayeh Meisami (December 2016)

Islam A Critical Analysis of Shīʿī Epistemology in Relation to Political Authority in the Works of Mullā Ṣadrā and Ḥamīd al-Dīn Kirmānī

Supervisor: Shafique Virani Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Dayton Ian Richards (October 2016)

Hinduism and South Asian Religions Poles Apart: Anti-Conversion Legislation in Post Independence India

Supervisor: Arti Dhand Instructor, Religious Studies, King's University College, University of Western Ontario Yaniv Feller (September 2016)

Jewish Studies Dialogical Apologetics: Leo Baeck and the Task of Jewish Philosophy

Supervisor: David Novak

Faculty Member, University of Florida

(formerly: Assistant Professor, Jewish Studies and Religion, Wesleyan University)

Tenzan Eaghll (August 2016)

Religion, Ethics, and Modern Thought Jean-Luc Nancy and the Deconstruction of Christianity

Supervisor: John Paul Ricco Lecturer, College of Religions Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand Eric Steinschneider (June 2016)

Hinduism and South Asian Religions Beyond the Warring Sects: Universalism, Dissent, and Canon in Tamil Śaivism, ca. 1675-1994

Supervisor: Srilata Raman Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Ithaca College Rebecca Bartel (June 2016)

Religion, Culture, and Politics Card Carrying Christians: Credit, Debt, and Believing in Emerging Colombia

Supervisor: Kevin O'Neill Associate Professor in Religious Studies, San Diego State University Bonnie de Bruijn (April 2016)

Religion, Ethics, and Modern thought Julia Kristeva’s ‘Culture of Revolt’ and (Post) Modern Religious Subjectivity

Supervisor: James DiCenso

Tutor (Instructor), Quest University Canada

(formerly: Writer, Gripped Publishing)

Nathalie LaCoste (March 2016)

Judaism Waters of the Exodus: Jewish Experiences with Water in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

Supervisor: Judith Newman Coordinator at the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages at York University; Lecturer, Queens College, Memorial University of Newfoundland Lindsay Macumber (February 2016)

Judaism Understanding, Reconciliation, and Prevention: Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s Representation of the Holocaust as a Theodicy

Supervisor: David Novak Part-time Instructor, Department of Religious Studies, St. Mary's University

Instructor, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Jade Weimer (December 2015)

Christianity Musical Assemblies: How Early Christian Music Functioned as a Rhetorical Topos, a Mechanism of Recruitment, and a Fundamental Marker of an Emerging Christian Identity

Co-supervisors: John Kloppenborg & Collen Shantz Fellow at St. John’s College, University of Manitoba; Instructor, University of Prince Edward Island Amy Marie Fisher (September 2015)

Early Christianity and Judaism Early Christianity and Judaism Celestial Topography: Mapping the Divine Realms in Antiquity

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Operations Coordinater,

Health Data Coalition Amy Elizabeth Fisher (September 2015)

Anthropology of Christianity 'This Place Should (Not) Exist’: An Ethnography of Shelter Workers and the In-Between

Supervisor: Pamela Klassen

Social Services Consultant, The Salvation Army in Canada

Director of Education, ALPHA Education; Sessional Lecturer, University of Toronto, Scarborough (Arts, Culture, and Media Department) Sarah Kleeb (August 2015)

Religion, Ethics and Modern Thought Gustavo Gutiérrez’s Notion of Liberation and the Legacy of Marx’s Ruthless Criticism

Supervisor: Marsha Hewitt Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream | Acting Coordinator, English Language Development Support | Centre for Teaching and Learning Usha Khosla (April 2015)

Buddhist Studies Study of the Tathagatagarbha as True Self and the True Selves of the Brahmanic, Sāṅklorenhya and Jaina Traditions

Supervisor: Christoph Emmrich passed away November 2022 Norman Tobias (April 2015)

Judaism & Christianity Jules Isaac and the Roman Catholic Church: Advocate for Scriptural Truth

Supervisor: David Novak Tobias Tax Professional Corporation Syed Adnan Hussain (April 2015)

Islam and South Asian Studies Negotiating Pakistan: A Genealogy of a Post-colonial Islamic State

Supervisor: Mohammad Fadel Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Saint Mary's University Callie Callon (October 2014)

Christianity Physiognomy as a Strategy of Persuasion in Early Christian Discourse

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg

Research Officer, University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto

(was: Adjunct Instructor, Religious Studies, Queen's University at Kingston and Toronto School of Theology)

Erin Vearncombe (September 2014)

Christianity What Would Jesus Wear? Dress in the Synoptic Gospels

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Writing Integrated Teaching (WIT) at the University of Toronto Ryan Stoner (September 2014)

Judaism A Sacrifice of Time: Work, Worship and the Experience of Sabbath in Ancient Judaism

Supervisor: Hindy Najman `Resident Physician, Mount Sinai Hospital David Kaden (September 2014)

Christianity Law and Power: Matthew, Paul, and the Anthropology of Law

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Senior Minister, First Congregational Church of Ithaca, New York Matthew William King (June 2014)

Buddhist Studies Writing True Places in the Twilight of Empire and the Dawn of Revolution: The Buddhist Historiography of the Mongol Zawa Damdin Luwsandamdin (1867-1937)

Supervisor: Frances Garrett Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, University of California-Riverside Simon Appolloni (April 2014)

Christianity Convergent Knowing: Explorations of a Sustained – and ‘Sustainable’ – Theological Reflection on Science, Environment and Liberation

Supervisor: Stephen Scharper Assistant Professor, School of the Environment, University of Toronto, and Associate Publishing Director at Novalis Publishing Ronald Charles (February 2014)

Christianity Paul and Diaspora Politics

Supervisors: John Marshall and Terry Donaldson Associate Professor, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto Bryan Levman (January 2014)

Buddhist Studies Linguistic Ambiguities, the Transmissional Process, and the Earliest Recoverable Language of Buddhism

Supervisor: Christoph Emmrich Visiting Scholar, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto Shari Golberg (September 2013)

Judaism and Islam When Beruriah Met Aisha: Textual Intersections and Interactions among Jewish and Muslim Women Engaged with Religious Law

Supervisor: Robert Gibbs Team Lead, Ontario Provincial Government. Legislative and regulatory policy for skilled trades and apprenticeship; anti-racism/equity Jodie Boyer (September 2013)

Christianity Sin and Sanity in Nineteenth-Century America

Supervisor: Pamela Klassen Pastor, Erb Street Mennonite

Church; Adjunct Professor,

North Park Theological Seminary Timothy Michael James Langille (September 2013)

Judaism Reshaping the Persistent Past: A Study of Collective Trauma and Memory in Second Temple Judaism

Supervisor: Hindy Najman Lecturer, Religious Studies, Arizona State University Rick Kenneth Last (September 2013)

Christianity Money, Meals and Honour: The Economic and Honorific Organization of the Corinthian Ekklesia

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Assistant Professor in the Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program at Trent University Smita Kothari (September 2013)

Hinduism and South Asian Studies Dana and Dhyana in Jaina Yoga: A Case Study of Preksadhyana and the Terapanth

Supervisors: Christoph Emmrich and Stephen Scharper Sarah Rollens (August 2013)

Christianity Framing Social Criticism in the Jesus Movement: The Ideological Project in the Sayings Gospel Q

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Associate Professor,

Religious Studies, Rhodes College Alexander Green (July 2013)

Judaism Luck, Beneficence and Conflict in the Ethics of Levi Gersonides

Supervisor: David Novak Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Jewish Thought, University of Buffalo Paul Nahme (June 2013)

Judaism From Critical to Prophetic Idealism: Ethics, Law and Religion in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen

Supervisor: David Novak Assistant Professor, Religious Studies and Judaic Studies, Brown University John Lorenc (April 2013)

Medieval Christianity John of Freiberg and the Usury Prohibition in the Late Middle Ages: A Study in the Popularization of Medieval Canon Law

Supervisor: Joseph Goering Director of Sales Operations,

PointClickCare Jenn Cianca (January 2013)

Christianity Sacred Ritual, Profane Space: The Roman House as Early Christian Meeting Place

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies, Bishop's University Rebekka King (September 2012)

Christianity The New Heretics: Popular Theology, Popular Christianity, and Protestant Language Ideologies

Supervisor: Pamela Klassen Associate Professor of Religion, Department of Philosophy, Middle Tennessee State University Edith Szanto (September 2012)

Islam Following Sayyida Zaynab: Twelver Shi’ism in Contemporary Syria

Supervisor: Amira Mittermaier Assistant Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Alabama Nicholas Dion (September 2012)

Religion, Ethics, and Modern Thought Spacing Freud: Space in the Psychoanalytic Critique of Religion

Supervisors: James DiCenso and Marsha Hewitt Chief of Staff, Office of the President, Brock University Ben Wood (August 2012)

Buddhist Studies The Jeweled Fish Hook: Ecclesiastical Exemplarity in the Shalu Abbatial History

Supervisor: Frances Garrett Instructor, Langara College, Vancouver BC Barbara Greenberg (June 2012)

Religion, Ethics, and Modern Thought Kleinian Reparation: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Residential School Apology in Canada

Supervisor: Marsha Hewitt Call Centre Agent, Canada Revenue Agency (formerly:Research Assistant, University of Ottawa, for the Ontario Looking After Children Project) Eva Mroczek (May 2012)

Judaism Psalms Unbound: Ancient Concepts of Textual Tradition in 11QPsalms and Related Texts

Supervisor: Hindy Najman Associate Professor, Religious Studies, University of California-Davis Jason McKinney (December 2011)

Religion, Ethics, and Modern Thought On the Metapolitics of Decay: Walter Benjamin’s Will to Happiness

Supervisor: James DiCenso

Adjunct Professor, Toronto School of Theology

Priest-Missioner to Parkdale, Anglican Diocese of Toronto

Christina Reimer (October 2011)

Religion, Ethics, and Modern Thought A Fountain Sealed: Virginity and the American Evangelical Family

Supervisor: James DiCenso ACHIEVE Leadership Trainer Kathleen Gibbons (September 2011)

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity Vice and Self-Examination in the Christian Desert

Supervisor: Robert Sinkewicz Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies and Classics at Washington University in St. Louis Keir Hammer (August 2011)

Early Christianity Disambiguating Rebirth: A Socio-rhetorical Exploration of Rebirth Language in 1 Peter

Supervisor: Peter Richardson Director, White Cross Canada, Taylor Seminary and College Fei Lan (April 2011)

Religion, Ethics, and Modern Thought Desire Viewed Through Ethical Optics: A Comparative Study of Dai Zehn and Levinas

Supervisor: Vincent Tsing-song Shen Associate Professor of Religion,

Department of Philosophy and

Religion, University of Mississippi Mona Tokarek LaFosse (November 2010)

Early Christianity Age Matters: Age, Aging and Intergenerational Relationships in Early Christian Communities, with a Focus on 1 Timothy 5

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Assistant Professor, Martin Luther University College Alexander Damm (March 2010)

Gospels Ancient Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Assistant Professor, Martin Luther University College

Instructor, Wilfrid Laurier University Karen Cheatham (February 2010)

Medieval Christian History They Hasten toward Perfection: Virginal & Chaste Monks in the High Middle Ages

Supervisor: Isabelle Cochelin Owner / Technical Writer and Marketing Writer, Nimble Ink in Bend, Oregon Maithili Thayanithy (March 2010)

South Asian Studies The Concept of Living Liberation in the Tirumantiram

Supervisor: Chelva Kanaganayakam Arlene Macdonald (June 2009)

Lived Religion and the Body in North America Resurrected Bodies: Individual Experiences and Collective Expressions of Organ Transplant in North America

Supervisor: Pamela Klassen Assistant Professor, Institute of Medical Humanities, University of Texas - Medical Branch Lincoln Blumell (June 2009)

Early Christianity Lettered Christians: Christians, Letters, & Late Antique Oxyrhynchus

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Associate Professor,

Department of Ancient Scripture, Brigham Young University Atif Khalil (May 2009)

Islam Sufi Approaches to Tawba (‘Repentance’): From the Qur’an to Abu Talib al­Makki

Supervisor: Todd Lawson Faculty, Department of Religious Studies,

University of Lethbridge Santiago Slabodsky (April 2009)

Jewish Studies Emmanuel Levinas’ Barbarisms: Adventures of Talmudic Readings Traveling South

Supervisor: Robert Gibbs Associate Professor of Religion, Hofstra University Janna Rosales (April 2009)

Religion, Ethics, and Critiques of Technology When the ‘Twilight of Justice’ Meets the Dawn of Nanotechnology: A Critique of Transhumanism and the Technological Imperative in the Light of George Grant’s Moral Philosophy

Supervisor: Larry Schmidt Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland Jonathan Crane (April 2009)

Jewish Studies Rhetoric of Modern Jewish Ethics

Supervisors: Robert Gibbs and David Novak Raymond F. Schinzai Junior Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought, Center for Ethics, Emory University Geraldine Fogarty (February 2009)

Psychology of Religion Madness and Transformation in Early Irish Literature: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

Supervisors: Ann Dooley and James DiCenso Professor of Religion, Emory College of Arts and Sciences ; Raymond F. Schinzai Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought, Center for Ethics, Emory University

Psychotherapist, Psychoanalyst Kerry Fast (November 2008)

North American Religion “But what a strange commixture am I”: Borders of Self and Religion in the Making of Women’s Lives

Supervisor: Pamela Klassen Co-chair of Editors Toronto;

professional editor, writer,

researcher Ken Derry (November 2008)

Religion and Literature Uncomfortable Mirrors: Religion and Mimetic Violence in Contemporary Canadian Native Literature

Supervisor: Chelva Kanaganayakam Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto - Mississauga Matthew LaGrone (July 2008)

Modern Judaism and Christianity Between Fire and Ice: Studies in Jewish and Christian Centrism

Supervisor: David Novak Assistant Program Head, Electives, University of Guelph-Humber Siphiwe Dube (June 2008)

Religion and Literature TRC of South Africa: A Dialectical Critique of its Core Concepts

Supervisor: Marsha Hewitt Lecturer and Head of Political Studies Department, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Associate Professor, Religion, Carleton University Aisha Geissinger (May 2008)

Islamic Studies Gendering the Classical Tradition of Quran Exegesis

Supervisor: Sebastain Guenther Associate Professor,

Religion, Carleton University Andre Maintenay (May 2008)

Religion, Ethics and Environment Green Ethics and Green “Faith”: An Exploration of Environmental Ethics and Spirituality in a Technological Age

Supervisors: Larry Schmidt and Stephen Scharper Professor, Liberal Studies,

Humber College, Toronto Laurel Zwissler (May 2008)

North American Religion Demonstrations of Faith: Religious and Political Identity among Feminist Political Activists in North America

Supervisor: Pamela Klassen Associate Professor of Religion,

Central Michigan University Michael Ostling (January 2008)

Early Modern Religion Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland

(Governor General’s Gold Medal)

Supervisor: Jonathan Pearl

Faculty Member, Arizona State University

(formerly: Honorary Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, the University of Queensland, Australia)

Sarah King (November 2007)

Religion and the Environment Contested Place: Religion and Values in the Dispute, Burnt Church/Esgenoôpetitj, New Brunswick

Supervisor: Ingrid Stefanovic

Team Leader (Policy Analysis), Canadian Wildlife Service

(formerly:Associate Professor, Liberal Studies Department, Grand Valley State University)

Jeffrey Sims (June 2007)

Philosophy of Religion Hermeneutics and the Reconstitution of Universal Memory

Supervisor: Graeme Nicholson Instructor, Vanier College Elaine Myers (April 2007)

Religion and Archaeology The Ituraeans: Challenging Misconceptions and Evaluating the Primary Sources

Supervisor: Peter Richardson Passed away David Lawrence Penner (March 2007)

Religion, Ethics and Modern Thought Christian Existence and Failure

Supervisor: Graeme Nicholson Contract and Sessional Faculty

Department of Religious Studies Ruth Mas (September 2006)

Islamic Religious Thought (Modern) Margins of Tawhid: Liberalism and the Discourse of Plurality in Contemporary Islam

Supervisors: Charles Hirschkind and James DiCenso Associate Member, Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS), SOAS University of London Henry Shiu (December 2005)

Buddhism The Nonduality of Nonconceptual Wisdom and Conceptual Cognition: A study of the Tathagatagarbha Teaching in the Anunatvapurnatvanirdesa-parivarta

Supervisor: Leonard Priestley Shi Wu De Professor in Chinese Buddhist Studies at Emmanuel College, Toronto School of Theology William Wahl (December 2005)

Philosophy of Religion Suffering Truth: Interpretation, Religion and Science in Nietzsche and Freud

Supervisor: James DiCenso David Buyze (May 2005)

Religion and Culture, Postcolonial Comparative Literatures The Aftertastes of Colonialism: Latin Americanism and Cultural Meaning

Supervisor: Rosa Sarabia Lecturer, John Hopkins University; Associate Graduate Faculty, Texas Christian University

Adjunct Faculty, University of Denver

Adjunct Faculty, Manhattan College Aubrey Glazer (April 2005)

Jewish Thought/Hebrew Hermeneutics Afterwords on (Re)birthing Redemption in Hebrew Hermeneutics

Supervisor: Harry Fox Director of Panui; Senior Rabbi, Congregation Shaare Zion, Montreal Tanja Juric (November 2004)

Philosophy of Religion The Ethics of Ethical Subjectivity: Ethics and Aesthetics in the work of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche and Theodor Adorno

Supervisors: Graeme Nicholson and Amy Mullin-Cuthbert Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science, York University Kenneth MacKendrick (October 2004)

Philosophy of Religion Discourse, Desire and Fantasy: A Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Study of the Foundation of Jurgen Habermas’s Critical Social Theory

Supervisor: Marsha Hewitt Associate Professor, Department of Religion, University of Manitoba Zhonghu Yan (July 2004)

Philosophy of Religion Self-Cultivation, Society and Metaphysics: an Existential Reading of the Analects

Supervisor: Vincent Shen Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Hangzhou Normal University

Sessional Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto David Perley (June 2004)

Philosophy of Religion Articulation and Mysticism in the Thought of William James (1842 – 1910)

Supervisor: Graeme Nicholson Sessional Lecturer, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto Mark Chapman (May 2004)

Modern Canadian Religion & Society No Longer Crying in the Wilderness: Canadian Evangelical Organizations and their Networks

Supervisor: John Simpson Associate Professor, Director of DMin Program, Tyndale Seminary Christopher Helland (April 2004)

Sociology of Religion Religion on the Internet: A Sociological Inquiry into Participation and Community Online

Supervisor: John Simpson Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University Russell Martin (April 2004)

Early Christianity Towards an Understanding of Local Autonomy in Judaea between 6 and 66 CE

Supervisor: Peter Richardson Happily retired Albert Wuaku (January 2004)

South Asian Religions & Africa Tapping into Hindu Powers: The Local Factor in Shiva and Krishna Worship in Ghana

Supervisor: Martin Klein Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Religious Studies, Florida International University Mark Leuchter (May 2003)

Religion in Ancient Israel Jeremiah, the First Jew

Supervisor: Brian Peckham Professor, Director of Jewish Studies, Department of Religion, Temple University Elizabeth Davies-Stofka (April 2003)

Religion and Ethics Toward a jus in bello of Guerilla Warfare: A Case Study in Comparative Ethics

Supervisor: Roger Hutchinson Program Chair, Liberal Studies and College Prep, Colorado Community Colleges Online Peter Gilbert (March 2003)

Modern Christian-Jewish Relations The Analysis of Antisemitism in the Theological, Historical and Sociological Criticism of James Parkes

Supervisor: Alan Davies Adam Lehto (December 2002)

Early Eastern Christianity Divine Law, Asceticism and Gender in Aphrahat’s Demonstrations, with a Complete Annotated Translation of the Text and Comprehensive Syriac Glossary

Supervisor: Harry Fox (formerly: Sessional Instructor, Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga) Gillian McCann (December 2002)

South Asian Religions A New Dharma for the Nation: The Toronto Theosophical Society and Albert Smythe 1891-1945

Supervisor: Naranda Wagle Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts & science, Nipissing University John David Scully (September 2002)

Sociology of Religion Consent and Dissent on Evangelical Talk Radio

Supervisor: John Simpson Professor, Algonquin College (Ottawa) Eleanor Pontoriero (February 2002)

Psychology and Philosophy of Religion On “Loving the Neighbour”: The Implications of Emmanuel Levinas’ Intensification of Ethics after the Shoah

Supervisors: James DiCenso and Robert Gibbs Sessional Lecturer, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto Anthony Chartrande-Burke (September 2001)

Early Christianity The Infancy Gospel of Thomas: The Text, Its Origins, and Its Transmission

Supervisors: Robert Sinkewicz and Leif Vaage Associate Professor, Department of the Humanities, York University Paulino Belamide (August 2001)

Chinese Religions Self-Cultivation in Quanzhen Taoism with Special Reference to the Legacy of Qiu Chuji

Supervisor: Julia Ching

Principal, Saint Jude Catholic School in the Phillipnes

(formerly: Priest, San Sebastian Parish, Phillipines)

Amir Hussain (June 2001)

Modern Islamic Religion The Canadian Face of Islam: Muslim Communities in Toronto

Supervisor: Willard Oxtoby Professor, Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University Dana Sawchuk (April 2001)

Sociology of Religion, Christianity in Latin America The Costa Rican Catholic Church, Social Justice, and the Rights of Workers, 1979-1996

Supervisor: Marsha Hewitt Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University Catherine Ludvik (January 2001)

South and East Asian Religions From Sarasvati to Benzaiten

(Governor General’s Gold Medal)

Supervisor: David Waterhouse Professor, Stanford University Catherine Caufield (March 2000)

Religion, Hermeneutics, and Literature Hermeneutics of Written Text: Religious Discourse in Mexican Literature

Supervisor: Mario Valdes Sessional Instructor, Department of Literature and Language, Concordia University of Edmonton Keith Haartman (December 1999)

Psychoanalysis and Religion Watching and Praying: A Psychoanalytic View of Personality Change, 18th Century British Methodists

Supervisor: Morris Eagle Psychotherapist Tim Hegedus (December 1999)

Early Christianity Graeco-Roman Religions Attitudes to Astrology in Early Christianity: A Study Based on Selected Sources

Supervisor: Roger Beck Professor, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, Wilfrid Laurier University Michele Murray (December 1999)

Early Christianity and Judaism “Playing a Jewish Game:” Gentile Christian Judaizing in the First and Second Centuries CE

Supervisor: Peter Richardson Professor, Dean of Arts and Science, Bishop's University Tak-Ling Terry Woo (December 1999)

Women in Chinese Religions The Religious Values, Beliefs and Practices affecting the Lives of Women during the Reign of T’ang Ming-Huang

Supervisor: Richard Guisso Faculty, York University Phil Harland (July 1999)

Early Christianity Claiming a Place in Polis and Empire: The Significance of Imperial Cults and Connections among Associations, Synagogues, and Christian Groups in Roman Asia

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Professor, Department of the Humanities, York University Bruce Power (April 1999)

Ancient West Asian Religions Ancient Israel Iconographic Windows to Ezekiel’s World

Supervisor: Brian Peckham Adjunct Faculty Member, Tyndale University College

Adjunct Professor, Booth University College Darlene Juschka (June 1998)

Phenomenology of Religion, Religion and Feminism Feminist Encounters with Symbol, Myth, and Ritual: Mary Daly, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, and Rosemary Radford Reuther

Supervisor: Roger Hutchinson Associate Professor, Coordinator, and Department Head, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Regina; Associate Professor, Religious Studies, University of Regina Becky R. Lee (June 1998)

Late Medieval European Popular Religion “Women ben purifyid of her childeryn”: The Purification of Women After Childbirth in Medieval England

(Nominated, Governor General’s Gold Medal)

Supervisor: Joseph Goering Professor Emerita, York University Ronald Polster (June 1998)

Philosophy of Religion Evil and the Biblical Discourse of Lament

Supervisor: Paul Gooch Executive Director, Holy Blossom Temple Thomas Vettickal (January 1998)

South Asian Religions Sarvodaya of Mahatma Gandhi: Realistic Utopia

Supervisor: Joseph O’Connell William Arnal (October 1997)

Early Christianity The Rhetoric of Deracination in Q: A Reassessment

(Governor General’s Gold Medal)

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Professor and Department Head, Religious Studies, University of Regina Bernadette McNary-Zak (September 1997)

Christianity in Late Antiquity Ascetic Piety in Fourth Century Egypt: A Study of the Ascetical Letters of Bishops

Supervisor: Timothy Barnes Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Rhodes College Bruce MacKay (February 1997)

Religion of Ancient Israel Ethnicity and Israelite Religion: The Anthropology of Social Boundaries in Judges

Supervisors: Ernest Clarke and Shuichi Nagata Faculty, School of Liberal Education, University of Lethbridge William Smyth (January 1997)

Religion and Literature Rudy Wiebe as Novelist: Witness and Critic, Without Apology

Supervisor: Charles Lock Cheryl Nafziger-Leis (December 1996). (Now known as Cameron Altaras.)

Religion and Aesthetics Art … Even After Auschwitz: Adorno’s Critical Theory of Art, Religion and Ideology

Supervisor: Marsha Hewitt Retired, Writer Herbert Berg (October 1996)

Islamic Religion The Use of Ibn ‘Abbas in Al-Tabari’s Tafsir and the Development of Exegesis in Early Islam

Supervisor: Jane McAuliffe Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Carolina-Wilmington Christopher Buck (June 1996)

Comparative Religion Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in ‘Persian’ Christianity and the Baha’i Faith

Supervisor: Willard Oxtoby Attorney & Independent Scholar Alan Kirk (June 1996)

Early Christianity The Structure of Q: Genre, Synchrony, and Sapiental Composition in the Synoptic Sayings Source

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Philosophy and Religion, James Madison University Young-Sik Yoo (February 1996)

Christianity in East Asia The Impact of Canadian Missionaries in Korea: A Historical Survey of Early Canadian Mission Work, 1999-1898

Supervisor: Richard Guisso Alexander Marusich (January 1996)

Sociology of Religion Religious Conversion: A Biogenetic Structuralist Model

Supervisor: Michael Hammond Simon Young-Suk Moon (January 1996)

Comparative Study of Religion A Case Study in Comparative Monasticism: Songgwang-Sa Son/Zen Buddhist Monastery, Korea and the Abbey of the Genesee, Cistercian Monastery, USA

Supervisor: Peter Slater Professor Emeritus, Kangnam University Philip Smith-Eivemark (January 1996)

Philosophy of Religion and Mysticism Beyond Language: Mystics and the Language Trap

Supervisor: David Turner English Language Instructor, Copyeditor Renia Tyminski (December 1995)

Religion and Feminist Theory Divinity, Transcendence and Female Subjectivity in the Works of Mary Daly

Supervisor: Marsha Hewitt Language Training Director,

Hallowell Gardens Jill J. Anderson (May 1995)

Celtic Religion A History of Women in the Early Irish Church: The Hagiographical Evidence

Supervisor: Harry Roe Russell McCutcheon (January 1995)

Method and Theory of Religion Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia

Supervisor: Neil McMullin Professor and Department Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of Alabama A. Ellen Goldberg (December 1994)

South Asian Religions Ardhanarisvara: An Indian and Feminist Perspective

Supervisor: Narendra Wagle Retired Associate Professor of Religions of South Asia, Queen's University Debra J. Jensen (December 1994)

Religion and Social Ethics Mysticism and Social Ethics: Feminist Reflections on Their Relationship in the Works of Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil and Meister Eckhart

Supervisor: Donald D. Evans Jinfen Yan (December 1994)

Chinese Religions Utilitarianism in Chinese Thought

Supervisor: Julia Ching Barbara J. Whitmer (October 1994)

Religion and Ethics Beyond the Violence Mythos to the Interactive Organism: Remythologizing Violence, the Body, Trust, and Technology in Western Culture

Supervisor: Roger Hutchinson Information Technology Field Ann Baranowski (June 1994)

Religion and Cognition Ritual Alone: Cognition and Meaning of Patterns in Time

Supervisor: Donald Wiebe Instructor, Laurier University;

Psychoanalyst Ronald Wallace (June 1994)

Modern Western Christianity Inter-Faith Dialogue as a Method for the Scientific Study of Religion

Supervisor: Willard Oxtoby Daniel McBride (April 1994)

Ancient Egyptian Religions The Egyptian Foundations of Gnostic Thought

Supervisor: D. B. Redford Stephanie K. Walker (May 1993)

Religion and Literature This Woman in Particular: Contexts for the Biographical Image of Emily Carr

Supervisor: Johan Aitken Willi Braun (January 1993)

Early Christianity The Use of Mediterranean Banquet Traditions In Luke 14:1-24

Supervisor: John Kloppenborg Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Classica, and Religion, University of Alberta Wayne H. Harter (January 1993)

Philosophy of Religion Thomistic Ontology as Critical Enquiry into Religion

Supervisor: Neil McMullin Faculty, St. Mary's College of California Reena L. Zeidman (June 1992)

Early Judaism A View of Celebrations in Early Judaism: Tosefta Avodah Zarah [Idolatry]

Supervisor: Harry Fox Arthur McCalla (April 1992)

Modern Western Christianity Expiation and Progress: Religion and Society in the Thought of Pierre-Simon Ballanche(Nominated, Governor General’s Gold Medal)

Supervisor: C. Thomas McIntire Faculty, Mount St. Vincent University Pashaura Singh (September 1991)

South Asian Religions The Text and Meaning of the Adi Granth

Supervisor: W. H. McLeod Professor and Department Chair, University of California - Riverside Barry W. Henaut (March 1991)

Early Christianity Oral Tradition Behind the Written Gospel Texts? Mark 4: 1-34 and the Problem of Orality

Supervisor: H. O. Guenther Roman Garrison (December 1990)

Early Christianity Redemptive Almsgiving in Early Christianity

Supervisor: Peter Richardson Ordained in the PCUSA and has served many churches as Minister; Taught religion courses at Westminister College, Buena Vista University and Thiel College Edward Yong-Joong Chung (November 1990)

East Asian Religions Neo-Confucian Understanding of Human Nature and Emotions: A Study of the Four-Seven Thesis in Two Korean Thinkers: Yi T’oegye and Yi Yulgok

Supervisor: Julia Ching Professor of Religious Studies and Asian Studies Director, University of Prince Edward Island Daniel H. Williams (November 1990)

Early Christianity Nicene Christianity and its Opponents in Northern Italy: An Examination of Late 4th Century Anti-Arian Polemics and Politics with Particular Emphasis on the Early Career of Ambrose of Milan

Supervisors: Timothy Barnes and Joanne McWilliam Professor, Baylor University Joseph P. L’Abbé (October 1990)

Modern Western Christianity Catholic Critics on Religious Art in France 1870-1920

Supervisor: Giorgio Scavizzi Lee D. Rainey (October 1990)

Chinese Religions Life After Death: Some Early Confucian Views

Supervisor: Julia Ching Passed Away

Associate Professor, Memorial University Kelley M. Spoerl (September 1990)

Early Christianity A Study of the Kata Meros Pistis by Apollinarius of Laodicea

Supervisor: Robert Sinkewicz Professor, Saint Anselm College Michael Farris (May 1990)

Early Christianity The Formative Interpretations of the Seventy Weeks of Daniel

Supervisor: Stanley D. Walters Michael F. Stoeber (June 1990)

Philosophy of Religion Evil and the Mystics’ God: Towards a Mystical Theodicy

Supervisor: Donald D. Evans Professor of Theology & Director of Advanced Degrees, Regis College John B. Roney (September 1989)

Modern Western Christianity Jean Henri Merle D’Aubigné: Historian of Christianity in an Age of Revolution

Supervisor: C. Thomas McIntire Professor, Sacred Heart University Douglas A. Campbell (November 1989)

Early Christianity The Rhetoric of Righteousness: An Analysis of Rom. 3:21-26 in Context

Supervisor: Richard N. Longenecker Professor of New Testamnents, Duke Divinity School John Valk (October 1989)

Modern Western Christianity Religion and the Schools: The Struggle for Protestant Christian Education in Utrecht in the Nineteenth Century

Supervisor: C. Thomas McIntire Professor, University of New Brunswick James McLachlan (January 1989)

Philosophy of Religion Existentialist Interpretations of the Desire to be God: Radical Freedom in Sartre and Berdyaev

Supervisor: Donald D. Evans Professor, Western Carolina University Michael Cuneo (June 1988)

Modern Western Christianity Catholics Against the Church: Anti-Abortion Protest in Toronto, 1969-1985

Supervisor: Roger O’Toole Author; Professor (Retired), Sociology and Anthropology, Fordham University Peter D. Gooch (June 1988)

Early Christianity Food and the Limits of Community: 1 Corinthians 8:1 to 11:1

Supervisor: Peter Richardson Senior Director of Policy and Analysis, Council of Ontario Universities Randi R. Warne (April 1988)

Religion and Culture Literature as Pulpit: Narrative as a Vehicle for the Transmission and Transformation of Values in the Christian Social Activism of Nellie McClung

Supervisor: Roger Hutchinson Professor, Religious Studies; Coordinator, Cultural Studies Program & Women and Gender Studies Program, Mount Saint Vincent University Antonio Perez-Romero (February 1988)

Early Modern Western Christianity Juan De Valdes and Sixteenth-Century Spanish Religious Thought as Expressed in the Religious Literature in Castilian

Supervisor: J. I. Chicoy-Daban Associate Professor, Spanish,

John Carroll University Michel Desjardins (June 1987)

Christianity in Late Antiquity Sin in Valentinianism

Supervisor: Heinze Guenther Professor Emeritus, Wilfrid Laurier University P. Lyndon Reynolds (November 1986)

Medieval Western Christianity God, Cosmos and Microcosm: Comparisons Between the Relation of God to the Cosmos and the Relation of the Soul to Man, From Greek Philosophy to the Thirteenth Century

Supervisor: Walter Principe Professor, Emory University Alan Kam-Leung Chan (December 1985)

Chinese Religions Two Visions of the Way: A Study of Wang Pi’s and Ho-Shang Kung’s Commentaries on the Lao-Tzu

Supervisor: Julia Ching Researcher & University Administrator, University of Winnipeg Ronald G. Sawatsky (December 1985)

Modern Western Christianity “Looking For That Blessed Hope”: The Roots of Fundamentalism in Canada, 1878-1914

Supervisor: John S. Moir Passed Away Steven M. Wasserstrom (October 1985)

Islamic Religion Species of Misbelief: A History of Muslim Heresiography of the Jews

Supervisor: G. M. Wickens Moe and Izetta Tonkon Professor of Judaic Studies and Humanities, Department of Religion, Reed College Jane D. McAuliffe (October 1984)

Islamic Religion Perceptions of the Christians in Qur’anic Tafsir

Supervisor: G. M. Wickens

Senior Advisor to the Librarian of Congress

(formerly: Director of National and International Outreach at the Library of Congress, Director of The John W. Kluge Center, President of Bryn Mawr College, and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University

Marilyn F. Nefsky (September 1984)

Japanese Religions Women and the Religious Character of Contemporary Japan

Supervisor: Cyril Powles Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Religion. University of Lethbridge Donald Merriell (January 1984)

Medieval Western Christianity The Image of the Trinity in Man According to St.Thomas Aquinas

Supervisor: Walter Principe Herbert Basser (June 1983)

Early Judaism Sifre Ha’azinu: Rabbinic Interpretations of the Song of Moses

Supervisor: L. H. Silberman Professor Emeritus, Queen's University