P Bramadat
Biographic Data
| ID | 69658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Bramadat |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Bramadat |
| SIGNATURE | BRAMADAT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7996-902X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The I and Thou of Urban Life: Winnipeg and Marrakech
In this essay, the author explores links between an unlikely urban pairing: Winnipeg and Marrakech. Using his experiences of these two cities and his personal and professional histories, he reflects on what we might learn from the oscillation between enchanted places and mundane spaces. He likens this dynamic to the tension between I-Thou and I-it relationships.
Medicine, Wellness, and Post-Institutional Spiritualities: A Critical Engagement
.
On Running Amok: Conspirituality and Pandemics
.
Enlightening the Public in a Post-Enlightenment Era
This essay reflects on whether the scholar of religion has a particular role in promoting public and political knowledge and understanding of religion(s). I focus on the two main venues in which academics work: the classroom and the public arena
Roles and risks: The problem of the public scholar and the scholar in public
This paper introduces a Special Section on the role scholars of religion should (or should not) take in informing the public about religion(s
Nonreligion is not Proto-religion: Lessons from the Field(s)
In this essay, I reflect critically on the other articles in this special issue. In particular, I place these four contributions into dialogue with the concept of ‘reverential naturalism’. I conclude with specific questions that might stimulate further research and discussion among our peers
Christianity and reverential naturalism engage a world in peril: A dialogue between disciplines
Christian theologians and ostensibly secular sociologists of religion rely on different resources to respond to personal, local, or global problems. The environmental crises we see around the world reflect a strict hierarchy between human beings and the natural world. In both the theological and social scientific arenas of the last few decades, however, we see an 'animal turn' that exposes the hubris of anthropocentrism and creates opportunities …
Rite and Stone: Religious Belonging and Urban Space in Global Perspective
Over long periods, interdisciplinary debates in urban studies on the relationships between religion and urban space were influenced by mainstream versions of modernization theory. These were based on the binary of urban modernity and nonurban (religious) tradition. However, historical urban research has shown that cities were also more often sites of religious innovation. Inspired by Jennifer Robinson’s understanding of cities as “ordinary” sites…
The CSRS, Then and Now
The Guild introduces you to the various associations, societies, and organizations where scholars carry out their work. In this issue, we learn about the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the Unviersity of Victoria. Throughout its thirty-year history, the CSRS has creatively developed space to further the academic study of religion. Special thanks to Paul Bramadat, Director and Professor, for his insights on the Centre’s history
Religion at the Edge: Nature, Spirituality, and Secularity in the Pacific Northwest
You Are Here: Mapping Religious Studies in Canada
This short essay introduces the contributions to this special section of Studies in Religion
Prayer as Transgression?: The Social Relations of Prayer in Healthcare Settings
A bridge too far: Yoga, spirituality, and contested space in the Pacific Northwest
In 2015 a plan to celebrate the inaugural International Day of Yoga in Vancouver generated a powerful backlash. What might have been for some a public expression of their interest in a trendy wellness activity, and for others a meaningful demonstration of an important spiritual practice, was cancelled just a week after it was announced. How did this single postural yoga class so quickly and definitively galvanise public opinion, and what can this…
Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies: The Protestant Ethic and the Quest for Social Justice in Canada. By Richard Allen
Richard Allen (1929–2019) died after a long and fruitful career that combined work as a historian at the University of Saskatchewan (1964–1973) and McMaster University (1973–1987) and also thirteen years as a Member of the Provincial Legislature in the Province of Ontario (1983–1995). His research and teaching were focused on the complex web of social justice movements that flourished between the 1880s and 1930s and are usually characterized as t…
A Critical Conversation on Religious Diversity in China, Canada and India
An introduction to this special issue of SR, outlining the main issues addressed in the articles and in the conference at which earlier versions of each article were presented
Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Refugee Settlement and Religion in British Columbia
In this article, I have two objectives. First, I use data from a pilot study I conducted in British Columbia during 2011–12 to reflect on the practical challenges that religiously affiliated refugee settlement agencies face in contemporary society. Among other issues, I am interested in what is happening in and to these groups in an era in which Canadians demonstrate less loyalty to and often less interest in institutional religious groups. Inter…
Vaccine hesitancy: An overview
Despite being recognized as one of the most successful public health measures, vaccination is perceived as unsafe and unnecessary by a growing number of individuals. Lack of confidence in vaccines is now considered a threat to the success of vaccination programs. Vaccine hesitancy is believed to be responsible for decreasing vaccine coverage and an increasing risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks and epidemics. This review provides an ove…
Religion, Race, and Remembering: Indo-Caribbean Christians in Canada
remember and tell stories about their own and their family’s religious histories. Most participants in this study had Hindu ancestors who con-verted to Christianity during or after the Caribbean experience of inden-tured labor. Most of the stories I heard identified Africans as the source of the problems that once and still beset the homelands of the families I encountered. Moreover, many of the people I interviewed told generally positive storie…
Religion and public policy in Canada: An itinerary
Although the intersection between religion and public policy is the subject of intense interest within and outside of the academy, the Canadian work on these often fraught phenomena is still fairly modest. In an effort to clarify some of the basic issues underlying this relatively new subfield in religious studies, in this article I address three questions. First, how is religion currently framed by existing Canadian laws and policies? Second, is…
Religion, social capital, and “The day that changed the world”
Introduction: The re-emergence of religion in international public discourse
For Ourselves, Our Neighbours, Our Homelands: Religion in Folklorama’s Israel Pavilion
Winnipeg’s Folklorama is the largest and longest-running multicultural festival in the world. Local ethnic groups present outsiders (and insiders) with cultural displays, foods, and usually an ethnic performance of some kind. The fact that members of these groups must formally decide how they will represent themselves makes this festival an excellent opportunity to understand the ways groups use these festivals to interact with the broader Canadi…
Four Life Histories
One of the challenges of ethnography is that it requires one to enter into a community and become enmeshed in the web of affinities, opinions, gossip, rhetoric, and beliefs that characterize this group. Then, at the end of fieldwork, one must step outside the others’ world and interpret it for (other) others and oneself. This analytical stage, however, compels one to condense one’s experiences and, indeed, one’s newly acquired friends, to make th…
The Church on the World's Turf: An Evangelical Christian Group at a Secular University
Is it possible for conservative Protestant groups to survive in secular institutional settings? Here, Bramadat offers an ethnographic study of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) at McMaster University, a group that espouses fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible, women's roles, the age of the earth, alcohol consumption, and sexual ethics. In examining this group, Bramadat demonstrates how this tiny minority thrives within the over…
God in the Classroom: The Controversial Issue of Religion in Canadian Schools
Religion and public policy in Canada: An itinerary
Although the intersection between religion and public policy is the subject of intense interest within and outside of the academy, the Canadian work on these often fraught phenomena is still fairly modest. In an effort to clarify some of the basic issues underlying this relatively new subfield in religious studies, in this article I address three questions. First, how is religion currently framed by existing Canadian laws and policies? Second, is…
Rite and Stone: Religious Belonging and Urban Space in Global Perspective
Over long periods, interdisciplinary debates in urban studies on the relationships between religion and urban space were influenced by mainstream versions of modernization theory. These were based on the binary of urban modernity and nonurban (religious) tradition. However, historical urban research has shown that cities were also more often sites of religious innovation. Inspired by Jennifer Robinson’s understanding of cities as “ordinary” sites…
Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Refugee Settlement and Religion in British Columbia
In this article, I have two objectives. First, I use data from a pilot study I conducted in British Columbia during 2011–12 to reflect on the practical challenges that religiously affiliated refugee settlement agencies face in contemporary society. Among other issues, I am interested in what is happening in and to these groups in an era in which Canadians demonstrate less loyalty to and often less interest in institutional religious groups. Inter…
A bridge too far: Yoga, spirituality, and contested space in the Pacific Northwest
In 2015 a plan to celebrate the inaugural International Day of Yoga in Vancouver generated a powerful backlash. What might have been for some a public expression of their interest in a trendy wellness activity, and for others a meaningful demonstration of an important spiritual practice, was cancelled just a week after it was announced. How did this single postural yoga class so quickly and definitively galvanise public opinion, and what can this…
God in the Classroom: The Controversial Issue of Religion in Canadian Schools
Four Life Histories
One of the challenges of ethnography is that it requires one to enter into a community and become enmeshed in the web of affinities, opinions, gossip, rhetoric, and beliefs that characterize this group. Then, at the end of fieldwork, one must step outside the others’ world and interpret it for (other) others and oneself. This analytical stage, however, compels one to condense one’s experiences and, indeed, one’s newly acquired friends, to make th…
The Church on the World's Turf: An Evangelical Christian Group at a Secular University
Is it possible for conservative Protestant groups to survive in secular institutional settings? Here, Bramadat offers an ethnographic study of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) at McMaster University, a group that espouses fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible, women's roles, the age of the earth, alcohol consumption, and sexual ethics. In examining this group, Bramadat demonstrates how this tiny minority thrives within the over…
For Ourselves, Our Neighbours, Our Homelands: Religion in Folklorama’s Israel Pavilion
Winnipeg’s Folklorama is the largest and longest-running multicultural festival in the world. Local ethnic groups present outsiders (and insiders) with cultural displays, foods, and usually an ethnic performance of some kind. The fact that members of these groups must formally decide how they will represent themselves makes this festival an excellent opportunity to understand the ways groups use these festivals to interact with the broader Canadi…
Religion, social capital, and “The day that changed the world”
Introduction: The re-emergence of religion in international public discourse
Religion and public policy in Canada: An itinerary
Although the intersection between religion and public policy is the subject of intense interest within and outside of the academy, the Canadian work on these often fraught phenomena is still fairly modest. In an effort to clarify some of the basic issues underlying this relatively new subfield in religious studies, in this article I address three questions. First, how is religion currently framed by existing Canadian laws and policies? Second, is…
Religion, Race, and Remembering: Indo-Caribbean Christians in Canada
remember and tell stories about their own and their family’s religious histories. Most participants in this study had Hindu ancestors who con-verted to Christianity during or after the Caribbean experience of inden-tured labor. Most of the stories I heard identified Africans as the source of the problems that once and still beset the homelands of the families I encountered. Moreover, many of the people I interviewed told generally positive storie…
Vaccine hesitancy: An overview
Despite being recognized as one of the most successful public health measures, vaccination is perceived as unsafe and unnecessary by a growing number of individuals. Lack of confidence in vaccines is now considered a threat to the success of vaccination programs. Vaccine hesitancy is believed to be responsible for decreasing vaccine coverage and an increasing risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks and epidemics. This review provides an ove…
Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Refugee Settlement and Religion in British Columbia
In this article, I have two objectives. First, I use data from a pilot study I conducted in British Columbia during 2011–12 to reflect on the practical challenges that religiously affiliated refugee settlement agencies face in contemporary society. Among other issues, I am interested in what is happening in and to these groups in an era in which Canadians demonstrate less loyalty to and often less interest in institutional religious groups. Inter…
A Critical Conversation on Religious Diversity in China, Canada and India
An introduction to this special issue of SR, outlining the main issues addressed in the articles and in the conference at which earlier versions of each article were presented
A bridge too far: Yoga, spirituality, and contested space in the Pacific Northwest
In 2015 a plan to celebrate the inaugural International Day of Yoga in Vancouver generated a powerful backlash. What might have been for some a public expression of their interest in a trendy wellness activity, and for others a meaningful demonstration of an important spiritual practice, was cancelled just a week after it was announced. How did this single postural yoga class so quickly and definitively galvanise public opinion, and what can this…
Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies: The Protestant Ethic and the Quest for Social Justice in Canada. By Richard Allen
Richard Allen (1929–2019) died after a long and fruitful career that combined work as a historian at the University of Saskatchewan (1964–1973) and McMaster University (1973–1987) and also thirteen years as a Member of the Provincial Legislature in the Province of Ontario (1983–1995). His research and teaching were focused on the complex web of social justice movements that flourished between the 1880s and 1930s and are usually characterized as t…
Prayer as Transgression?: The Social Relations of Prayer in Healthcare Settings
The CSRS, Then and Now
The Guild introduces you to the various associations, societies, and organizations where scholars carry out their work. In this issue, we learn about the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the Unviersity of Victoria. Throughout its thirty-year history, the CSRS has creatively developed space to further the academic study of religion. Special thanks to Paul Bramadat, Director and Professor, for his insights on the Centre’s history
Religion at the Edge: Nature, Spirituality, and Secularity in the Pacific Northwest
You Are Here: Mapping Religious Studies in Canada
This short essay introduces the contributions to this special section of Studies in Religion
Rite and Stone: Religious Belonging and Urban Space in Global Perspective
Over long periods, interdisciplinary debates in urban studies on the relationships between religion and urban space were influenced by mainstream versions of modernization theory. These were based on the binary of urban modernity and nonurban (religious) tradition. However, historical urban research has shown that cities were also more often sites of religious innovation. Inspired by Jennifer Robinson’s understanding of cities as “ordinary” sites…
Nonreligion is not Proto-religion: Lessons from the Field(s)
In this essay, I reflect critically on the other articles in this special issue. In particular, I place these four contributions into dialogue with the concept of ‘reverential naturalism’. I conclude with specific questions that might stimulate further research and discussion among our peers
Christianity and reverential naturalism engage a world in peril: A dialogue between disciplines
Christian theologians and ostensibly secular sociologists of religion rely on different resources to respond to personal, local, or global problems. The environmental crises we see around the world reflect a strict hierarchy between human beings and the natural world. In both the theological and social scientific arenas of the last few decades, however, we see an 'animal turn' that exposes the hubris of anthropocentrism and creates opportunities …
Medicine, Wellness, and Post-Institutional Spiritualities: A Critical Engagement
.
On Running Amok: Conspirituality and Pandemics
.
Enlightening the Public in a Post-Enlightenment Era
This essay reflects on whether the scholar of religion has a particular role in promoting public and political knowledge and understanding of religion(s). I focus on the two main venues in which academics work: the classroom and the public arena
Roles and risks: The problem of the public scholar and the scholar in public
This paper introduces a Special Section on the role scholars of religion should (or should not) take in informing the public about religion(s
The I and Thou of Urban Life: Winnipeg and Marrakech
In this essay, the author explores links between an unlikely urban pairing: Winnipeg and Marrakech. Using his experiences of these two cities and his personal and professional histories, he reflects on what we might learn from the oscillation between enchanted places and mundane spaces. He likens this dynamic to the tension between I-Thou and I-it relationships.
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (10 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (9 works) · History (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Religious studies (6 works)