Cette recherche se fonde sur une base de données recueillies lors de groupes de discussion et d'entrevues ayant eu lieu dans diverses villes canadiennes. Elle examinera la façon dont les jeunes adultes issus de populations immigrantes établies perçoivent la diversité religieuse dans leur milieu de travail. Il s’agit d’une étude comparative qui s’intéresse aux impressions […]

Lors de la déconfessionnalisation du système scolaire québécois au tournant des années 2000, l’Église catholique s’est investie dans le développement de nouveaux parcours de formation chrétienne. Toutefois, les transformations de plus en plus radicales du rapport socioreligieux des Québécois à la religion catholique convoquent de nouveau l’Église à modifier en profondeur ses dispositifs de formation […]

Le projet proposé est une recherche qualitative qui fait suite à une recherche déjà achevée traitant de la conversion à l’islam en France et au Québec et qui a fait l’objet d’une monographie. Dans la foulée de ce projet, la présente recherche vise à documenter les processus inverses, soit les musulmans qui se convertissent au […]

En France, le protestantisme historique s’est toujours placé en figure de proue sur les questions de laïcité et de séparation entre l’Église et l’État et sa pensée rationnelle est en harmonie avec les principes de sécularisation, d’école laïque et de médecine laïque. Une paroisse fait toutefois exception en offrant des soins de santé et de bien–être. […]

Working from an existent database of focus groups and interviews conducted in Canadian cities, this project investigates how young adults from established immigrant populations view religious diversity in the workplace. The study is comparative, exploring the impressions and experiences of "religion at work" as they pertain to specific genders, ethnicities and religious backgrounds While participants […]

Various waves of immigration have altered the profiles of Muslim communities in Alberta demanding a need for better data and information for both short and long term planning of services and infrastructure.  This need poses challenges not only to individual civil society organizations, but also to cross-organization coalitions seeking to build common ground upon which […]

A crisis is looming for many Ontario citizens with developmental disability and other challenges that make their support needs especially complex. In recent decades a process of deinstitutionalization moved the Province away from a morally problematic “warehousing” model towards one where people had an opportunity at meaningful lives in their communities. However, many are living […]

“In Conversation with Contemporary Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: What it Means to Practice” is a study of the relationship between objects and practice in Pure Land Buddhism as told by the practitioners themselves. Interviewing scholars and practitioners of contemporary Chinese Pure Land Buddhism and visiting key sites of practice in the Shanghai area, I will […]

The project investigates the practices of contemporary Buddhist Monastics in relation to their interaction and communication with family members. The question to be investigated is: To what extent, if at all, do contemporary monastics maintain relationships with living family members? The research will focus, in particular, on ways that family is understood in this context […]

My project will be examining different aspects of Chinese popular religion, including online representations, physical landmarks, and firsthand accounts, and drawing connections between popular religion in China and the self- and community-identities of lay practitioners in Beijing. I will be visiting sites in Beijing, including St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Yonghe Gong, and Baiyun Guan, examining primary […]

The spread of Buddhism brought to encounter Indic and Sinitic cultural systems, the two of most disparate civilizations in the world. After hundreds of years of continuous contact and communication, a Buddhist sect that is most characteristically Indian and most alien to the Chinese flourished in China, which came to be known as Esoteric Buddhism […]

My research project will focus around the following question: what relationships exist between religious models of the human body—primarily Buddhist and Daoist—and medical practices and beliefs? To explore this topic I will study primary and secondary materials, participate in meetings with my host university supervisor, Chen Ming with the assistance of Dr. Susan Andrews from […]