Religion
Anna Shternshis
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Holocaust in the Soviet Union
- Post-Soviet Jewish diaspora
- Refugee Studies
- Soviet Jewish History and Culture
- Yiddish culture, literature music, and theatre.
- Yiddish Music during the Holocaust
Office: (416) 978-8131
Languages: Yiddish, Russian, some Hebrew
Website
Email: anna.shternshis@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
David Novak
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Ethics (including biomedical ethics)
- Jewish law, ethics, and political theory
- Jewish-Christian relations
- Political theory (with special emphasis on natural law theory)
Office: 416-946-3229
Languages: Hebrew,German,Yiddish,Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE),Greek, Modern (1453-),Latin,French
Website
Email: david.novak@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Frances Garrett
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Tibetan Buddhism
Office: N/A
Website
Email: frances.garrett@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
John Kloppenborg
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Ancient Mediterranean Religions
- Associations and elective cults in the Graeco-Roman World
- Early Christianity and New Testament
- Historical Jesus
- Papyrology, epigraphy, and interpretation of early Christian texts
- Social history of the late Hellenistic period and early Christianity
- Synoptic Problem and Q
Office: 416-978-6493
Home: 416-604-2597
Mobile: 416-604-2597
Languages: French,German,Hebrew,Greek, Ancient (to 1453),Latin,Coptic
Email: john.kloppenborg@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
John Marshall
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Apocalyptic literature
- Colonialism and religion in the ancient world
- Early Jewish-Christian relations
- Historical Jesus
- The role of Paul in the construction of Christianity
- “Magic”
Office: 416-978-6667
Website
Email: john.marshall@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Pamela Klassen
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- 20th & 21st century Christianity, missionary/Indigenous relations
- Canada’s treaty responsibilities in relation to religion/spirituality
- Religion
- Religion and medicine
- Religion in the public sphere
- Religion; colonialism in Canada
- ritual and healing
- Women and religion
Office: 416-585-4573
Website
Email: p.klassen@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Ruth Marshall
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Citizenship, state politics and violence in Nigeria & Cote d’Ivoire
- Continental philosophy of religion
- Continental political philosophy
- Pentecostalism, radical reformist Islam and religious revival in the Global South
- Post-colonial theory, African Studies
- Religion, politics and public life
- Religious conflict and violence
- Secularism and democratic theory
- United States Politics - the Religious Right since the 1970s, the rise of the alt-right, the MAGA movement, QAnon, the Trump years and party politics
- United States Religion - evangelicals and race, White Christian nationalism, theocracy, dominionism, reconstructionism, Christian cults, QAnon and its Christian roots and networks
Office: 416-978-0241
Mobile: 416-839-9295
Website
Email: ruth.marshall@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Simon Coleman
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Cathedrals
- Pentecostalism
- Pilgrimage
- Religious Infrastructures
- Ritual
Office: 416-978-4788
Languages: English,Swedish
Website
Email: simon.coleman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Walid Saleh
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Islam
- The Middle East
Office: 416-946-3241
Mobile: 647-710-0921
Languages: English,Arabic
Website
Email: walid.saleh@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email, Text
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online