Greg Loewen

  • Assistant Professor with Tenure, Department Head Sociology
  • St. Thomas More College
  • 1437 College Drive Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W6
  • Phone: 306.966.8956
  • gloewen@stmcollege.ca
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Education | Research Interests | Research Projects | Selected Publications
Teaching Responsibilities | Administrative Responsibilities

Education

  • Ph.D. Sociology and Anthropology, University of British Columbia, 1997.
  • M.A. Anthropology (Archaeology), University of Victoria, 1990.
  • B.A. Anthropology, University of Victoria, 1988.

Research Interests

  • Hermeneutics and Phenomenology
  • Sociology of Religion
  • History and Theory of the Social Sciences
  • Ethics and Pedagogy

Research Projects

2015 Place Meant:  Autotopologies (a phenomenology of subjected subjectivity: in space and place, as a self and as a vehicle for the prejudice of locale)

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • We Other Nazis:  how you and I are still like them 2013b Book
  • The Reason of Unreason (psychoanalytic and dialectical theories of selfhood  2013a  Book
  • Hermeneutic Pedagogy: teaching and learning on dialogue and interpretation  2012d Book   Book Review
  • Our Memory of Things:  a phenomemnemonics of the object 2012c Book
  • The Role of Art in the Construction of Personal Identity:  towards a phenomenology of aesthetic self-consciousness  2012b Book
  • On the Afterlife:  you will get there from here  2012a Book
  • The Sociological Vision:  an interpretive introduction  2011c  Book
  • Aesthetic Subjectivity:  glimpsing the shared soul 2011b  Book
  • Fetish, Cult and Disenchantment:  Sociological Studies of the Projected Self.  2011a Book.
  • Three Apodeictic Dialogues:  Examples of Conceptual Mirrors in Religion, Psychology, and Social Organization.  2010 Book.
  • Becoming A Modest Society: On Distinguishing Ourselves. 2009b Book.
  • Social Science Interpretations of Religion: Comparing the Hermeneutic Methodologies of James, Weber, Heidegger and Durkheim.  2009a Book.
  • What is God? Musings on Human Anxiety and Aspiration. 2008 Book.
  • How can we Explain the Persistence of Irrational Beliefs? 2006 Book.
  • Adventures in the Aporetic: Anthropological Alterities  2005 Book.                                                            
  • A Socio-ethnography of the Academic Professionalization of Anthropologists 2004 Book.
  • Hermeneutical Apprenticeships: Essays, Epigrams, Verse 2003 Book.

Teaching Responsibilities

  • Sociology of Religion (SOC 321.3)
  • Advanced Seminar in the Study of Religion (SOC 413.3/813.3)
  • Contemporary Religious Movements (SOC 217.3)
  • Introductory Sociology (SOC 111.3 and 112.3)
  • ‘Cultivating Humanity' (SOC 200.6)
  • Analysis of Modernity (SOC 350.3)

Administrative Responsibilities

  • Member of the University of Saskatchewan Research Ethics Board, 07,08,09
  • Academic Coordinator for ‘Cultivating Humanity' 06, 07, 08, 09
  • Teaching Evaluation Coordinator 07, 08 ,09