I am the author of four volumes in the study of religion: To Whom It May Concern: Poverty, Humanity, Community (Philadelphia, 1969), A World Broken By Unshared Bread (Geneva, 1970), Religion in a New Key (New Delhi, 1992) and Jonathan Edwards’ Grammar of Time, Self and Society (Lewiston, NY, 1993). I have also edited (singly or jointly) twelve further volumes in the field of religious studies including Exploring Unification Theology (New York, 1978), God: The Contemporary Discussion (New York, 1982), The Many Faces of Religion and Society (New York, 1985), Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy: Studies in His Life and Thought (Lewiston, NY, 1986), Interreligious Dialogue: Voices for a New Frontier (New York, 1989) and Pluralism, Tolerance and Dialogue (Waterloo, 1989). I have compiled with Doris Jakobsh A Canadian Interfaith Directory (Waterloo, 1993). I have published more than forty scholarly articles including “Faith and History in Grant’s Lament,” “Media Ethics,” “Cinema, Religion and Popular Culture,” “Sin and Society,” “The Consolations of Philosophy,” “New Religions: Issues and Questions,” “Towards a Grammar of the Spirit in Society,” “Interreligious Dialogue and Understanding,” “The Purposes of Christ: Towards the Recovery of a Trinitarian Perspective,” “From ’De’ to ’Re’ or Does the ’Future of Ontotheology’ Require the Recovery of the Experience/Sense of Transcen-dence?”, “The Kumbha Mela: A Festival of Renewal,” and “To Hear the Stars Speak: Ontology in the Study of Religion.” My publications range across the broad area of religion and culture but can be broken down into the following areas: I. Theology and Ethics, II. Religion in North America, III. New Religious Movements, and IV. Interreligious Dialogue.

I have been teaching in Religious Studies for more than twenty-five years. At Renison College, University of Waterloo, I regularly teach courses on the Religious Quest, The Study of Religion, The History of Christian Thought and Interreligious Encounter and Dialogue that employ the comparative, historical and sociological methods common to the academic study of religion. I also teach courses from time to time on Religion and Politics, Religion and Literature, Religion and Film and I have lectured in the course on Sects, Cults and New Religious Movements. I have also taught graduate courses on Christianity and World Religions.