📷WELCOME, DR ADEL HASHEMI!📷This fall, we welcome @adelhashemi to a new role on the Religious Studies team at @stfxuniversity. He joins us as a part-timer to teach courses in religion, politics, and Islam. We asked Adel some get-to-know-you questions. See thread! 1/9 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐝? My first book, published by I.B. Tauris (Bloomsbury) in 2022, is titled 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑦𝑟𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑇𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑆ℎ𝑖’𝑖𝑠𝑚. 2/9 bloomsbury.com/us/making-of-m…

📷WELCOME, DR MATTHEW ANDERSON!📷
This fall, we welcome @mramontreal to a new role on the Religious Studies team at @stfxuniversity. Formerly an adjunct prof, he joins us for 3 years as Gatto Chair of Christian Studies. (Thread 1/8) Dr. Anderson's project, “Behind Every Man” is about women patrons in ancient Christianity, and is funded by the Father Edo Gatto endowment. We asked Matthew some get-to-know-you questions. See below! 2/8

📷📷WELCOME, DR GERJAN ALTENBURG!📷📷
This fall, we welcome Dr Gerjan Altenburg to the @stfxuniversity Religious Studies team. He joins us for a year to teach courses in Hinduism, Buddhism, and yoga. We asked Gerjan some get-to-know-you questions. See thread! 1/6 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐧: My dissertation was on the rules of customary behaviour in the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya, which is a massive monastic law code belonging to a North Indian school of early Buddhism. 2/6