Steven Engler
September 1, 2015
Dept. of Humanities
Mount Royal University
4825 Mount Royal Gate S.W.,
Calgary, T3E 6K6, Canada
1-403-440-8992 (Fax: 6659)
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Skype: steven.engler
http://stevenengler.ca
EDUCATION
1999
1989
1986
Ph.D., Religion, Concordia University, Montréal
M.A., Philosophy, University of Toronto
B.A., Philosophy, University of British Columbia
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
1999–
2014–
2008–
2005–2007
1996–1997
Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Humanities, Mount Royal
University (Tenured 2002, Full Professor 2012)
Professor Colaborador, Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências da
Religião, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil.
Affiliate Professor, Department of Religion, Concordia University, Montréal.
Visiting Research Professor, Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências da
Religião, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil
Religious Studies Instructor (sabbatical replacement), Augustana University,
Camrose
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Accepted with
revisions
Theorizing ‘Religious’: Agency, Order and Time in Early Modern Charity. Göttingen:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. (submission Spring 2016)
Edited Volumes
Finalizing
Finalizing
2011
2005
The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion. Oxford UP (co-edited with Michael
Stausberg, University of Bergen). (submission Fall 2015)
The Brill Handbook of Contemporary Brazilian Religions. Brill (co-edited with Bettina
Schmidt, University of Wales Trinity Saint David) (submission Fall 2015)
The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion. Routledge (coedited with Michael Stausberg, University of Bergen).
Historicizing “Tradition” in the Study of Religion. Walter de Gruyter (co-edited with
Gregory P. Grieve, University of North Carolina).
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
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Accepted
with revisions
Forthcoming
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2010
2009
2009
2007
2007
2006
2006
2006
2006
2005
2004
“Dona Benta’s Rosary: Managing Ambiguity in a Brazilian Women’s Prayer
Group.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
(with Mark Q. Gardiner) “The Philosophy and Semantics of the Cognitive
Science of Religion.” Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion. (Target article with
response to commentaries.)
“Re-mapping Bateson’s Frame” (with Mark Q. Gardiner). Journal of Ritual Studies
26/2: 7–20.
“Umbanda and Africa.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
15/4: 13–35.
“Semantic Holism and the Insider-Outsider Problem” (with Mark Q. Gardiner).
Religious Studies 48/2: 239–255.
“A umbanda e a glocalização.” Debates do NER 12/20: 11–44.
“‘Religion,’ ‘the Secular’ and the Critical Study of Religion.” Studies in
Religion/Sciences Religieuses 40/4: 419–442. Response to Fitzgerald’s response: 456–
460.
“Constitutional Secularization: Religious Pluralism and the Canadian Courts.”
Horizonte: Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião 9/21: 220–241.
“Ten Implications of Semantic Holism for Theories of Religion” (with Mark Q.
Gardiner). Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 22/4: 283–292.
(with Mark Q. Gardiner) “Charting the Map Metaphor in Theories of Religion.”
Religion 40/1: 1–13.
“A filosofia semântica e o problema insider-outsider” [Philosophical Semantics and
the Insider-Outsider Problem] (with Mark Q. Gardiner). Revista de Estudos da
Religião (Rever) 10/3: 89–105.
“Ritual Theory and Attitudes to Agency in Brazilian Spirit Possession.” Method and
Theory in the Study of Religion 21/4: 460–492.
“Umbanda and Hybridity.” Numen: International Review for the History of Religions
56/5: 545–577.
“Time, Habit, and Agency in English Puritanism.” Method and Theory in the Study of
Religion 19/3–4: 301–322.
“Tipos de Criacionismos Cristãos” [Types of Christian Creationisms]. Revista de
Estudos da Religião (Rever) 7/2: 83–107.
“Agency, Order, and Time in the Human Science of Religion.” Religion 36/3:
120–126.
“Religious Studies in Canada and Brazil: Pro-pluralism and Anti-theology in
Context.” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 35/3&4: 445–471.
“Rethinking ‘Hybridity’: Anterior Purities and the Invention of Tradition.”
Religião e Cultura 10: 9–20.
“Dāna (Dádiva) em religiões do Sul da Ásia: Pressuposições e o lugar de teorias”
[Dāna (Gifting) in South Asian Religions: Presuppositions and the Place of
Theory]. Estudos de Religião 31: 88–116.
“Two Problems with Constructionism in the Study of Religion.” Revista de Estudos
da Religião (Rever) 5/4: 28–34.
http://www.pucsp.br/rever/rv4_2005/p_engler.pdf
“Constructionism vs. What?” Religion 34/4: 291–313.
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2004
2003
2003
“Teoria da religião norte-americana: alguns debates recentes [Theory of Religion
in North America: Recent Debates].” Revista de Estudos da Religião (Rever) 4/4: 27–
42. http://www.pucsp.br/rever/rv4_2004/p_engler.pdf
“‘Science’ vs. ‘Religion’ in Classical Ayurveda.” Numen: International Review for the
History of Religions 50/4: 416–463.
“Modern Times: Religion, Consecration, and the State in Bourdieu.” Cultural
Studies 17/3&4: 445–467.
Other Publications/Talks
26 book chapters
16 non-peer-reviewed articles
Seven reference articles
53 book reviews
Seven edited journal issues
Six editorials
Seven academic translations
Seven keynote addresses (Brazil, Canada)
31 invited lectures/symposia/seminars (Brazil, Canada, Japan, Norway, USA)
10 conference sessions organized
45 international conference presentations (Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan,
Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden, USA)
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
Professional Organizations
2011–14
2009–12
2007–09
2009
2007–09
2001–07
2004–
American Academy of Religion (AAR), Excellence in the Study of Religion Descriptive
/ Analytic book award jury
American Academy of Religion (AAR), Anthropology of Religion Group, Co-chair
American Academy of Religion (AAR), Anthropology of Religion Group, Steering
Committee
American Academy of Religion (AAR), External Reviewer, Western Esotericism Group
renewal request
American Academy of Religion (AAR), Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Group, Steering Committee
American Academy of Religion (AAR), Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion
Group: Co-chair
North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR), Executive Council, (ex
oficio since 2007)
Editorships
2008–
2006–
2007–
North American Editor of peer-reviewed journal, Religion (Routledge)
Book Series co-editor: Studies in the History of Religions (Brill)
Founding book series editor, Key Thinkers in the Study of Religion (Routledge /
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2010–
2013–
2013–
2015–
NAASR)
Book Series co-editor: Texts and Sources in the History of Religions (Brill)
Book Series co-editor: Religion in the Americas (Brill)
Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee, Open Library of Humanities (OLH)
Routledge Open Access Advisory Board
Journal Editorial Boards: Religion (2004–07, then Elsevier); Journal of Religious and Theological
Information (Hawarth, now Routledge); Revista de Estudos da Religião (Rever) (Pontifícia Universidade
Católica de São Paulo); Imaginário (Universidade de São Paulo); Horizonte: Revista de Estudos em
Teologia e Ciências da Religião (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas); Studies in Religion /
Sciences religieuses (SAGE)
TEACHING (over 120 sections, 1999–)
Religious Studies
Asian Religions; Brazilian and Global Creationism; Christian Ethics; Christian Understanding of
Human Nature; Cognitive Theory of Religion; Contemporary Ethical Issues; Early Christianity;
Esotericism, Magic and the Occult; Hebrew Bible; Introduction to Christianity; Death and
Afterlife; Medieval Christian Thought; Nature of Religion; Reading English Language Texts in
the Study of Religion; Reformation Period; Religion in the Americas; Religion in Literature;
Religious Experience; Religious Meaning; Science and Religion; Social Morality; Textuality,
Visuality, and the Sensorium in the Study of Religion; Theories of Religion; World Christianity;
World Religions (Western & Eastern).
Philosophy
Critical Thinking; Epistemology and Metaphysics; Ethics; Existentialism in Literature;
Philosophy in Literature; Political Philosophy.
External on two Masters defences (University of Calgary) and three Ph.D. defences (Pontifícia
Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil [2], and University of Bergen, Norway).
AWARDS AND HONORS
2008–10
2007
2005–06
2005
2003
2002
2002
MRU Internal Research Grant
Research Fellowship, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível
Superior (CAPES)
Research Fellowship, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
(FAPESP)
Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science
U.S. Department of State funding for presenting at the annual meeting of the
International Society for the Sociology of Religion, Turin (Italy).
Fulbright Summer Institute: “Religion in the United States: Pluralism and Public
Presence” (University of California, Santa Barbara)
NAWeb2002 Educational Internet Site of the Year
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