Michel Gardaz
Associate Professor, Department of Classics and Religious Studies
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Office: ARTS 119
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 1174
E-mail: mgardaz@uOttawa.ca
University degrees
1995-1996 — Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Sorbonne, Paris V
1994-1995 — Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago
1994 — PhD, University of Ottawa
Fields of interest
- History of the Study of Religion
- Method and Theory
Courses taught
- SRS2512/SRS2513 – Religions du Monde I et II
- SRS3712 – L'Hindouisme
- SRS3713 – Le Bouddhisme
- SRS3715 – L'islam
- SRS3754 – Mysticisme et expérience spirituelle
- SRS4202/SRS4602 – The Scientific Study of Religion / Les sciences des religions
- SRS4507 – Religions et cultures sur la Route de la soie
- SRS4505 – Les défis de l’intégrisme islamiste
Seminars
- SRS5100 – Islamic Fundamentalism
- SRS5100 – The Life and Work of Mircea Eliade (1907-1986)
- SRS5115 – Hermeneutics and the Study of Religion
Selected publications
Mircea Eliade et le «nouvel homme» à la chemise verte. NUMEN: International Review for the History of Religions 59 (2012), p. 1-25.
“Religious Studies in Francophone Canada,” Religion, 41 (1) (2011): 53-70
“Piraterie, Chabaab, Djihad et autres calamités dans la Corne de l’Afrique : L’Éthiopie face à la menace islamiste,” Argument: Politique, Société et Histoire, 13 (1) (2010): 171-179
“History of the Discipline of the Study of Religion,” in The World’s Religions: Continuities and Transformations, edited by Peter Clark and Peter Beyer (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 276-289.
“The Path of Jihad in the Yacoubian Building,” Journal of Religion and Film, Vol. 13, 1 (2009)
The Centennial of Mircea Eliade (1907-1986), edited by Michel Gardaz and Douglas Allen, Religion, 38 (4), 2008
La mondialisation du phénomène religieux, edited by Martin Geoffroy, Jean-Guy Vaillancourt, and Michel Gardaz, (Montréal, Médiaspaul, 2007)
"Au pays des pharaons, les Frères musulmans seront-ils rois ?" Argument: Politique, Société et Histoire, 9 (2) (2007): 207-214
Les Sciences religieuses au Canada / Religious Studies in Canada, edited by Michel Gardaz. Religious Studies / Sciences Religieuses 35 (3-4) (2006)
Said’s Orientalism, edited by Michel Gardaz, Religion 34 (2004)
