P E Klassen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4616 |
|---|---|
| NOME | P E Klassen |
| PRENOMES | P E |
| SOBRENOME | Klassen |
| ASSINATURA | KLASSEN P E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-0455-0951 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Study of Indigenous Religions in North America
This chapter considers the limits and possibilities of thinking with the words religion, spirituality, Indigeneity, and North America within the anthropology of Indigenous religions in North America. The chapter considers how the colonial roots of anthropology and more recent decolonial methods shape how scholars recognize and theorize religion in their scholarship. Throughout the chapter we emphasize the collaborative nature of knowledge product…
Making Promises
How should we understand promises as public, private, or political commitments? What are the conditions for promise-making in religiously diverse societies with competing jurisdictions and sovereignties? Making Promises addresses how promises are made meaningful not only through law, but also through appeals to transcendent powers across diverse traditions. Each contribution in this volume takes a closer look at specific kinds of promises: oaths,…
Faith in citation
A citation may be a gift or a curse, a clue or an erasure, a mode of argument or a piece of evidence. Or it might be all of these things, depending on who is writing and reading it. This essay engages with the varying ways that the articles in this special issue draw attention to the relational dynamics of citation - conversational, generous, aggressive, predatory or exclusionary - as the authors have experienced and analysed them within the stud…
Medals, Memory, and Findspots
For many Indigenous people of Turtle Island, also known as North America, treaty medals are material reminders of sacred promises made between their nations and the British Crown or the U.S. Government. Settlers and colonial officials, by contrast, have often treated these medals as mere trinkets
Margaret Mead
In Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith, Elesha J. Coffman has written a critically compassionate “spiritual life” of Margaret Mead that both surprises and intrigues. One of the most—if not the most—famous anthropologists of the twentieth century, Mead was a prolific writer, tireless public speaker, museum curator, television personality, magazine columnist, advisor to presidents, anti-nuclear activist, and, eventually, a professor at Columbi…
Time Immemorial, Here and Now
The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health
Blessed Events
North America, Turtle Island, and the Study of Religion
This is the two authors’ response to the comments on their books, The Gods of Indian Country and The Story of Radio Mind , offered by Kathleen J. Martin, Sylvester A. Johnson, Tiffany Hale, and Greg Johnson. It addresses questions regarding the history of land in North America and Turtle Island, and reflects on the authors’ own ancestors’ histories, the use of a variety of sources to tell Indigenous and settler histories, and the politics and pro…
Back to the land and waters
In this reflection, I consider how paying attention to the grounds of our research, literally, affords the study of religion an opportunity to return to its roots as a discipline that thinks seriously about how what we call religion is connected to what we call nature. I ask what scholars of religion can learn from the 21st century movement of Indigenous Water Protectors, reading their invocations to ‘protect the sacred’ alongside earlier classic…
Conversionary Sites
Reviewed by: Conversionary Sites: Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota by Britt Halvorson Pamela E. Klassen Britt Halvorson, Conversionary Sites: Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 288 pp. Conversionary Sites tells the story of what happens in the wake of medical missions once the missionaries have returned home, have r…
Bringing Students to the Objects
Fending Off Foreclosure
The Story of Radio Mind
Ekklesia
Storied Landscapes
Reviewed by: Storied Landscapes: Ethno-Religious Identity and the Canadian Prairies by Frances Swyripa Pamela Klassen Frances Swyripa. Storied Landscapes: Ethno-Religious Identity and the Canadian Prairies. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2010. 296 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Maps. $29.95 sc. Storied Landscapes documents the narratives and memorials of several groups that settled on the Canadian prairies in the late nineteenth centur…
Fantasies of Sovereignty
To ask whether the postcolonial is postsecular demands asking for whom, where, and when? To that end, what follows is a reflection situated in two Canadian contexts, separated by time and place, but both connected to the 'colonial secular'. Engaged in the public deliberation and storytelling of civic secularism, through which political legitimacy is achieved through comparing religions, these two contexts are twenty-first century Québec and early…
Suppressing the Mad Elephant
The late-nineteenth century was a time of Protestant missionary enthusiasm for the “great closed land” of Tibet. Their prodigious, oftentimes proto-ethnographic, writings continue to provide scholars with archives that document missionary perspectives on Inner Asian society and religion, but few sources have yet emerged that allow for these to be read alongside Tibetan accounts of Christian-Buddhist encounters. This article undertakes such a para…
Mentality, Fundamentality, and the Colonial Secular; or How Real Is Real Estate
AAR Centennial Roundtable
THE AMERICAN LECTURES IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS (ALHR) boasts an illustrious record of lecturers and publications that stretches back to 1898. Some of the most important books to result from the lectures include ground-breaking and still popular works such as Peter Brown's The Body and Society (1988), Carolyn Walker Bynum's The Resurrection of the Body (1995), Wendy Doniger's The Implied Spider (updated 2011), and Bruce Lawrence's New Faiths, O…
An Author Meets Her Critics
In the fall of 2011, I was appointed to the Chair of Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies and Theology in the Faculty of Humanities. As I soon realized, my appointment occurred amid major transitions regarding the institutionalization of the study of religion at Utrecht University. This is part of a broader trend of renegotiating the space between 'theology' and 'religious studies'. This trend echoes a wider process of 'unchur…
Saint as Cipher
Radio Mind
In conversation with recent scholarly approaches to the interrelationships of religion, media, and technology, this paper analyzes a neglected form of metaphysical religion within the rubric of Protestant experimentalism. The main sources are a group of early twentieth-century Anglican clerics with shared interests in telepathy, psychic research, psychology, and healing. The paper argues for attention to the “sensational forms” (or paths of trans…
Textual Healing
Healing-whether via medical or miraculous means-has increasingly caught the attention of scholars of North American Protestantism within the past decade. Recent studies have convincingly argued that healing was at the heart of Protestant identity, especially in turn-of-the-twentieth-century United States and Canada. Loosely defined as the restoring of physical or emotional well-being with recourse to medical, symbolic, or religious means, healing…
Ritual Appropriation and Appropriate Ritual
This article analyzes the uses of the past for liberal Christians who borrow from Asian healing‐related practices such as yoga, Buddhist meditation and Reiki. It focuses on questions of historicity, both in the ways liberal Christians validate their syncretism by drawing connections to the Christian past, and in the way that longer histories of orientalism and colonialism shape current Christian interactions with Asian religions. Centred on the n…
The Story of Radio Mind
An Author Meets Her Critics
In the fall of 2011, I was appointed to the Chair of Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies and Theology in the Faculty of Humanities. As I soon realized, my appointment occurred amid major transitions regarding the institutionalization of the study of religion at Utrecht University. This is part of a broader trend of renegotiating the space between 'theology' and 'religious studies'. This trend echoes a wider process of 'unchur…
Fantasies of Sovereignty
To ask whether the postcolonial is postsecular demands asking for whom, where, and when? To that end, what follows is a reflection situated in two Canadian contexts, separated by time and place, but both connected to the 'colonial secular'. Engaged in the public deliberation and storytelling of civic secularism, through which political legitimacy is achieved through comparing religions, these two contexts are twenty-first century Québec and early…
Textual Healing
Healing-whether via medical or miraculous means-has increasingly caught the attention of scholars of North American Protestantism within the past decade. Recent studies have convincingly argued that healing was at the heart of Protestant identity, especially in turn-of-the-twentieth-century United States and Canada. Loosely defined as the restoring of physical or emotional well-being with recourse to medical, symbolic, or religious means, healing…
Ritual Appropriation and Appropriate Ritual
This article analyzes the uses of the past for liberal Christians who borrow from Asian healing‐related practices such as yoga, Buddhist meditation and Reiki. It focuses on questions of historicity, both in the ways liberal Christians validate their syncretism by drawing connections to the Christian past, and in the way that longer histories of orientalism and colonialism shape current Christian interactions with Asian religions. Centred on the n…
The Robes of Womanhood
Scholars of American religion are increasingly attentive to material culture as a rich source for the analysis of religious identity and practice that is especially revealing of the relationships among doctrine, bodily comportment, social structures, and innovation. In line with this focus, this article analyses the ways nineteenth-century African American Methodist women turned to dress as a tool to communicate religious and political messages. …
Time Immemorial, Here and Now
Back to the land and waters
In this reflection, I consider how paying attention to the grounds of our research, literally, affords the study of religion an opportunity to return to its roots as a discipline that thinks seriously about how what we call religion is connected to what we call nature. I ask what scholars of religion can learn from the 21st century movement of Indigenous Water Protectors, reading their invocations to ‘protect the sacred’ alongside earlier classic…
Radio Mind
In conversation with recent scholarly approaches to the interrelationships of religion, media, and technology, this paper analyzes a neglected form of metaphysical religion within the rubric of Protestant experimentalism. The main sources are a group of early twentieth-century Anglican clerics with shared interests in telepathy, psychic research, psychology, and healing. The paper argues for attention to the “sensational forms” (or paths of trans…
Faith in citation
A citation may be a gift or a curse, a clue or an erasure, a mode of argument or a piece of evidence. Or it might be all of these things, depending on who is writing and reading it. This essay engages with the varying ways that the articles in this special issue draw attention to the relational dynamics of citation - conversational, generous, aggressive, predatory or exclusionary - as the authors have experienced and analysed them within the stud…
Submerged in love
La vie de Lydia Rimer est un bon exemple de la vie religieuse des mennonites russes dans l'Union Sovietique post-revolutionnaire. En 1922, Lydia entame la redaction d'un journal lyrique et introspectif qui fait tenir ensemble theologie, histoire politique et autobiographie. En 1924, elle affirme son desir d'etre submergee par l'amour du Christ, mais l'A. remarque qu'elle l'est egalement par la societe patriarcale qui l'entoure. La ferveur evangel…
Sacred Maternities and Postbiomedical Bodies
Blessed Events
Journal Article Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America, by Pamela E. Klassen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001, 316 pp., $60.00 (cloth), $18.95 (paper) Get access Muriel Mellow Muriel Mellow The University of Lethbridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 1, Spring 2003, Pages 139–140, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712275 Published: 01 March 2003
The Robes of Womanhood
Scholars of American religion are increasingly attentive to material culture as a rich source for the analysis of religious identity and practice that is especially revealing of the relationships among doctrine, bodily comportment, social structures, and innovation. In line with this focus, this article analyses the ways nineteenth-century African American Methodist women turned to dress as a tool to communicate religious and political messages. …
Ritual Appropriation and Appropriate Ritual
This article analyzes the uses of the past for liberal Christians who borrow from Asian healing‐related practices such as yoga, Buddhist meditation and Reiki. It focuses on questions of historicity, both in the ways liberal Christians validate their syncretism by drawing connections to the Christian past, and in the way that longer histories of orientalism and colonialism shape current Christian interactions with Asian religions. Centred on the n…
Textual Healing
Healing-whether via medical or miraculous means-has increasingly caught the attention of scholars of North American Protestantism within the past decade. Recent studies have convincingly argued that healing was at the heart of Protestant identity, especially in turn-of-the-twentieth-century United States and Canada. Loosely defined as the restoring of physical or emotional well-being with recourse to medical, symbolic, or religious means, healing…
Radio Mind
In conversation with recent scholarly approaches to the interrelationships of religion, media, and technology, this paper analyzes a neglected form of metaphysical religion within the rubric of Protestant experimentalism. The main sources are a group of early twentieth-century Anglican clerics with shared interests in telepathy, psychic research, psychology, and healing. The paper argues for attention to the “sensational forms” (or paths of trans…
Saint as Cipher
Mentality, Fundamentality, and the Colonial Secular; or How Real Is Real Estate
AAR Centennial Roundtable
THE AMERICAN LECTURES IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS (ALHR) boasts an illustrious record of lecturers and publications that stretches back to 1898. Some of the most important books to result from the lectures include ground-breaking and still popular works such as Peter Brown's The Body and Society (1988), Carolyn Walker Bynum's The Resurrection of the Body (1995), Wendy Doniger's The Implied Spider (updated 2011), and Bruce Lawrence's New Faiths, O…
An Author Meets Her Critics
In the fall of 2011, I was appointed to the Chair of Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies and Theology in the Faculty of Humanities. As I soon realized, my appointment occurred amid major transitions regarding the institutionalization of the study of religion at Utrecht University. This is part of a broader trend of renegotiating the space between 'theology' and 'religious studies'. This trend echoes a wider process of 'unchur…
Storied Landscapes
Reviewed by: Storied Landscapes: Ethno-Religious Identity and the Canadian Prairies by Frances Swyripa Pamela Klassen Frances Swyripa. Storied Landscapes: Ethno-Religious Identity and the Canadian Prairies. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2010. 296 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Maps. $29.95 sc. Storied Landscapes documents the narratives and memorials of several groups that settled on the Canadian prairies in the late nineteenth centur…
Fantasies of Sovereignty
To ask whether the postcolonial is postsecular demands asking for whom, where, and when? To that end, what follows is a reflection situated in two Canadian contexts, separated by time and place, but both connected to the 'colonial secular'. Engaged in the public deliberation and storytelling of civic secularism, through which political legitimacy is achieved through comparing religions, these two contexts are twenty-first century Québec and early…
Suppressing the Mad Elephant
The late-nineteenth century was a time of Protestant missionary enthusiasm for the “great closed land” of Tibet. Their prodigious, oftentimes proto-ethnographic, writings continue to provide scholars with archives that document missionary perspectives on Inner Asian society and religion, but few sources have yet emerged that allow for these to be read alongside Tibetan accounts of Christian-Buddhist encounters. This article undertakes such a para…
Ekklesia
Fending Off Foreclosure
The Story of Radio Mind
Bringing Students to the Objects
North America, Turtle Island, and the Study of Religion
This is the two authors’ response to the comments on their books, The Gods of Indian Country and The Story of Radio Mind , offered by Kathleen J. Martin, Sylvester A. Johnson, Tiffany Hale, and Greg Johnson. It addresses questions regarding the history of land in North America and Turtle Island, and reflects on the authors’ own ancestors’ histories, the use of a variety of sources to tell Indigenous and settler histories, and the politics and pro…
Back to the land and waters
In this reflection, I consider how paying attention to the grounds of our research, literally, affords the study of religion an opportunity to return to its roots as a discipline that thinks seriously about how what we call religion is connected to what we call nature. I ask what scholars of religion can learn from the 21st century movement of Indigenous Water Protectors, reading their invocations to ‘protect the sacred’ alongside earlier classic…
Conversionary Sites
Reviewed by: Conversionary Sites: Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota by Britt Halvorson Pamela E. Klassen Britt Halvorson, Conversionary Sites: Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 288 pp. Conversionary Sites tells the story of what happens in the wake of medical missions once the missionaries have returned home, have r…
The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health
Blessed Events
Medals, Memory, and Findspots
For many Indigenous people of Turtle Island, also known as North America, treaty medals are material reminders of sacred promises made between their nations and the British Crown or the U.S. Government. Settlers and colonial officials, by contrast, have often treated these medals as mere trinkets
Margaret Mead
In Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith, Elesha J. Coffman has written a critically compassionate “spiritual life” of Margaret Mead that both surprises and intrigues. One of the most—if not the most—famous anthropologists of the twentieth century, Mead was a prolific writer, tireless public speaker, museum curator, television personality, magazine columnist, advisor to presidents, anti-nuclear activist, and, eventually, a professor at Columbi…
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