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Elected to the Royal Society of Canada

Founded in the 1880s, the Royal Society of Canada recognizes scholars and their work in order to help them build a better future in Canada and around the world.

“My work has always been animated by – this is more grandiose than I want to make it sound – questions of injustice that I see around me and how religion plays into various kinds of inequality, or how religion shapes the political world in which we live,” Klassen says.

Ceremonial Morality and Living in a Good Way

I visited the University of Tübingen, where I am an ambassador, to give a keynote lecture on ceremony, morality, and ethical practices.

Recognizing Religion and Siting the Secular

The Marty Center Series on Religions in the Americas at the University of Chicago invites leading scholars to focus on critical topics and key debates in the field. [Read more…] about Recognizing Religion and Siting the Secular

Podcasts about The Story of Radio Mind

I discussed The Story of Radio Mind on two podcasts: New Books Network, where Hillary Kaell and I had a conversation about the book, and Radio Survivor, where Eric Klein and I talked about the intersection of religion and radio. [Read more…] about Podcasts about The Story of Radio Mind

Review for The Story of Radio Mind

Amanda Porterfield writes for Reading Religion: “Klassen understands Du Vernet and his situation better than he did. Working a century later, she has heard more indigenous voices and been able to draw upon postcolonial scholarship and activism. Invoking the spirit of the 2015 report by Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, she overlooks no opportunity to expose the role that Christianity played in justifying colonization and rationalizing the seizure of indigenous lands. But she also pays close attention to the ways indigenous people worked with the material culture and ideas associated with Christianity to assert their own sovereign rights, preserve their societies, and contribute to the meaning of religion and spirituality in Canada, and indeed to the meaning of Canada itself.”

Read her review here.