Advancing Studies in Religion

Advancing Studies in Religion catalyzes and provokes original research in the study of religion with a critical edge. The series advances the study of religion in method and theory, textual interpretation, theological studies, and the understanding of lived religious experience. Rooted in the long and diverse traditions of the study of religion in Canada, the series demonstrates awareness of the complex genealogy of religion as a category and as a discipline. ASR welcomes submissions from authors researching religion in varied contexts and with diverse methodologies.

Series editor: Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, University of Waterloo.

Advancing Studies in religion

Prayer as Transgression?

The Social Relations of Prayer in Healthcare Settings
By Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham, Sonya Sharma, Rachel D. Brown and Melania Calestani
September 2020
Advancing Studies in religion

Identities Under Construction

Religion, Gender, and Sexuality among Youth in Canada
By Pamela Dickey Young and Heather Shipley
July 2020
Advancing Studies in religion

The Public Work of Christmas

Difference and Belonging in Multicultural Societies
Edited by Pamela E. Klassen and Monique Scheer
June 2020
Advancing Studies in religion

The Subversive Evangelical

The Ironic Charisma of an Irreligious Megachurch
By Peter J. Schuurman
June 2019
Advancing Studies in religion

Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism

By D. Mitra Barua
April 2019
Advancing Studies in religion

Convergent Knowing

Christianity and Science in Conversation with a Suffering Creation
By Simon Appolloni
November 2018
Advancing Studies in religion

Leaving Christianity

Changing Allegiances in Canada since 1945
By Brian Clarke and Stuart Macdonald
November 2017
Advancing Studies in religion

Everyday Sacred

Religion in Contemporary Quebec
Edited by Hillary Kaell
November 2017
Advancing Studies in religion
Understanding the Qur'an's Style, Narrative Structure, and Running Themes

The al-Baqara Crescendo

By Nevin Reda
February 2017