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Greg Loewen

  • Assistant Professor, Tenured
  • 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

  • 2011C The Sociological Vision - Book (interpretation and social theory)
  • 2012 A Pedagogic Hermeneutics - Book (teaching and learning via hermeneutics)

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • On the Use of  Art in the Construction of Personal Identity:  towards a social phenomenology of aesthetic experience.  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. Click here to read an interview on this 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)
  • Advanced Seminar in the Study of Religion (Soc 413/813)
  • Contemporary Religious Movements (Soc 217)
  • Introductory Sociology (Soc 111 and 112)
  • ‘Cultivating Humanity' (INTS 200.6)
  • Analysis of Modernity (Soc 350)

Administrative Responsibilities

  • Chair, Department of Sociology, 2010-2013
  • 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
  it is a privilege to have done my first major mural in a university chapel for I consider it vital that the Christian message be at least available to young people at the turning point in their intellectual life which university represents.”
— William Kurelek