Members' Corner

MUN professor leads refugee-sponsorship effort

Memorial University professor Patricia Dold is rallying people to help privately sponsor a Syrian refugee family to come to Newfoundland and Labrador.

As a private citizen following the European refugee crisis, Dold initially didn't know what she could do to help.

When she realized private co-sponsorship was an option, she decided to do something about it, and quickly put a call out on Facebook.

Le 17 avril 2015, Paul-Hubert Poirier a été élu membre de l’Institut de France à titre d’associé étranger de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Fondée en 1663, sous le règne de Louis XIV et à l’initiative de Colbert, l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres est l’une des cinq Académies de l’Institut de France, avec l’Académie française, et les Académies des Sciences Morales et Politiques, des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts.

Reverend Ma Seung: Canadian Presbyterian missionary and minister 1896 to 1934.

2015 Anneliese Maier Research Award winners announced

I am writing to email contacts of my friend, Moshe Amon, to inform them of his death at home on November 5. Attached is a copy of the obituary notice to be run in the Vancouver Sun. There is one more article to go up on his website www.mosheamon.com as soon as I can finish proofreading. It is intended to keep the site alive for a couple of years, partly in the hope that there may be commenters to fill in more details of Moshe's eventful life.

It is with great sadness that I inform you of the loss of CCRR Research Associate and CRR board member, Massimo Rosati. He died of a heart attack on January 30. Massimo was director of the Centre of the Study and Documentation of Religions and Political Institutions in Post-Secular Society at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata http://csps.uniroma2.it/. A personal biography of him and a list of his lifework can be found at: http://www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org/rosati.html.

Laurence Broadhurst was the recipient this summer 2013 of the Clifford J. Robson Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Winnipeg:

http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/robson-broadhurst

Hay, Eldon, comp. Maggie's Memories: A Covenanter Childhood in 19th Century Botsford Parish, New Brunswick. Dorchester: NB: Westmorland Historical Society, 2013.

Click here for book cover.

(Note: as always, we also post CSSR Members' books on the CSSR Member Bookshelf).

Prof. Leona Anderson, retired as of June 30, 2013, has been appointed by the Faculty of Arts at University of Regina to the honorary title of Professor Emerita of Religious Studies. Professor Anderson’s contributions, both to the field of Religious Studies in general, and especially to our department specifically, have been enormous.

The Religious Studies Department [at Saint Mary's University] has two pieces of news for the CSSR:

First, the Department is welcoming Syed Adnan Hussain as a new full-time faculty member in the Department. He will be joining the Department on July 1, 2013. He is filling the new post on Islamic Studies.