Sites of the Underground Railroad in Ontario

Carol B. Duncan

Wilfrid Laurier University

Carol B. Duncan is professor of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research focuses on Caribbean religions in transnational contexts, the African Diaspora, religion and popular culture and women’s and gender studies. She has also participated in public conversations as a lecturer, panelist and commentator in a variety of media including newspapers and magazines, television, documentary film and radio. Prof. Duncan is the author of This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008), co-author of Black Church Studies: An Introduction (Abingdon Press, 2007) and contributing editor to The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions (University of Illinois Press, 2013). She is co-editor of Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014). Her latest publication is the co-edited book The Black Church Studies Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She served as an academic consultant and appears in the award-winning documentary Seeking Salvation: A History of the Black Church in Canada (Travesty Productions/Vision TV, 2004).

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With the support of the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation, Dr. Pamela Klassen of the University of Toronto and Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer, Director of the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut of Historical and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen, are directing a research project on Religion and Public Memory in Multicultural Societies. The project runs from 2015 to […]

How Should We Understand Indigenous Spirituality (in English)? A reflection on the philosophy of listening Indigenous spirituality matters to Indigenous peoples. In this discussion, I am broadly interested in how Indigenous spirituality is used in contemporary Indigenous politics. More specifically, I ask the question: How should we understand Indigenous spirituality in English? My discussion involves […]