Dr. Paul Bowlby

Department Chair, Professor
B.A. (McMaster), M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (McMaster)
Research Areas: Religious Diversity in Canada; Religions and Multiculturalism; Religious Traditions of Asia

Dr. Magi Abdul-Masih

Chair in Catholic Studies, Associate Professor
B.A. (Bryn Mawr), M.A. (Johns Hopkins), Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), M.Div. (University of St. Michael's), Ph.D. (University of St. Michael's)
Research Areas: The Catholic Church Today; Contemporary Religions in the Middle East; Orientalism

Dr. Anne Marie Dalton

Professor
B.Sc. (Memorial), B.Ed. (Memorial), M.A. (Fordham), Ph.D. (Catholic University of America)
Research Areas: Religion and Culture; Religion and Ecology; Religion and Gender, Religion and International Development.

Dr. Nancie Erhard

Associate Professor
B.A. (Saint Mary's), M.T.S. (Atlantic School of Theology), M.Phil. (Union Theological Seminary), Ph.D. (Union Theological Seminary)
Research Areas: Comparative Religious Ethics; Religion in Contemporary Culture; Religion and Social Issues

Dr. Alexander Soucy

Associate Professor
B.A. (Concordia), M.A. (Concordia), Ph.D. (The Australian National University)
Research Areas: Anthropology of Religion; Vietnamese Buddhism; Buddhism in Canada; Gender and Religion

Dr.Terry Murphy

Professor
Research Areas: Religions in Canada and Atlantic Canada

Dr. Mary Hale

B.A. (Cal State - Long Beach); M.Div. (Boston University);PhD (Concordia University, Montreal)

Courses: Love, Death, Introduction to Western Traditions, Religion and Social Issues in Canada

Research Interests: Interrelatedness of Religion and Politics in Canada; Secularization in Canada; Judaism; Religion and Food; Religion and Education.

Dr. Emero Stiegman
Professor Emeritus in Religious Studies
Dr. Stiegman was an outstanding teacher in Religious Studies for over twenty-five years. He continues his study and academic work on St. Bernard in retirement and continues as a good friend to the Department he served so well.

Dr. Jamal Badawi

Dr. Badawi teaches in the Department of Management in the Faculty of Commerce. He is the Imam for the local Muslim community.
Courses: Islamic Religious Tradition

Dr. Wendell Eisene

B.Mus. (Acadia), M.Div. (Wilfrid Laurier); M.A. (Acadia), S.T.D. (St. Elias Orthodox Seminary)
Courses: Introduction to Religious Studies; Introduction to Religious Experience

Professor David Sable

B.A. (Columbia), M.A. (Columbia)
Courses: The Buddhist Religious Tradition; Spirituality and Work; Spirituality in the Workplace; The Buddhist Path: Ritual, Meditation and Wisdom

Chris Cutting

B.A. English Literature (Saint Mary's), B.A. Religious Studies (Saint Mary's), M.A. Religion and Culture ( Wilfrid Laurier University), Ph.D. Candidate: Religious Diversity in North America (University of Waterloo).

Research Areas: Sociology of Religion, Immigrant Religious Diversity in Canada and Multiculturalism, Religion and Public Policy, Islam in North America. (Doctoral dissertation is on the so-called “Sharia debate” that took place in Ontario between 2003 and 2005).