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Jennifer Selby

Memorial University

Jennifer A. Selby is associate professor of religious studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is author of Questioning French Secularism (Palgrave, 2012) and co-editor of Debating Sharia: Islam, Gender Politics and Family Law Arbitration (Toronto, 2012), as well as recent articles in Critical Research on Religion, Studies in Religion and Ethnologie française. She studies how Muslims figure in articulations of secularism and gender politics in contemporary Canada and France from an ethnographic perspective. Selby is currently undertaking SSHRC-funded comparative research examining marriage among Muslims of Algerian-origin outside of Paris and in Montreal.

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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 […]