Morny Joy
Address / Affiliation
University Professor
Dept of Religious Studies
University of Calgary
Calgary AB
Canada
T2N 1N4
Ph. 1-403-220-7995
Fax: 1-403-210-0801
Email
Areas of Specialization
  • Philosophy of Religion: History and Contemporary Problems
  • Women in Western Thought and World Religions
  • Methodology, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
  • History of Religions, Specialization in Hinduism
Areas of Interest
  • Women's Rights
  • Religion and Cultural Critique
  • Contemporary French Thought
Major Relevant Publications
Books and Monographs
Morny Joy, Divine Love: Luce Irigaray, Women, Gender and Religion, Series in Gender and Religion, Manchester UK: Manchester University Press, 2006
Morny Joy, K. O'Grady and J. Poxon, eds., Religion in French Feminist Thought: Critical Essays, London: Routledge, 2003
Morny Joy, Eccentrics, Ecstatics and Exceptional Women, 1993 Charles Strong Memorial Lecture, Adelaide Australia: Flinders University Press, 1996
Morny Joy and Eva Dargyay, eds., Gender, Genre and Religion: Feminist Reflections, Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1995
Articles and Chapters
Morny Joy, Philosophy and the Study of Religion," New Approaches to the Study of Religion, Religion and Reason Series, P. Antes, A.G. Geertz & R. Warne, eds., Berlin: Verlag de Gruyter, 2005
Morny Joy, Postcolonial and Gender Reflections," Challenges to Method in Religion, U. King and T. Beattie, eds., London: Continuum, 2003
Morny Joy, "Beyond a God's-Eye View: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Religion," Perspectives on Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Adjunct Proceedings of the 17th Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, A.W. Geertz and R.T. McCutcheon, eds., Leiden: Brill, 2000
Morny Joy, "After Essence and Intuition: A Reconsideration of Understanding in Religious Studies," Secular Theories on Religion, T. Jensen and M. Rothstein, eds., Copenhagen: Museum Tusculum Press, 2000
Recent Presentations
Morny Joy, Organizer and presenter, Panel on Women, Religion and Violence," International Association for the History of Religions, Tokyo, Japan, March, 2006
Other Information of Interest
Life Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, England
Past President, Canadian Society for the Study of Religion
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