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Dr. Laura Jurgens, PhD

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Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy Religious Studies, University of Calgary, 2019

Master of Arts Religious Studies and Theology, Saint Mary's University, 2013

Bachelor of Arts with Honours Religious Studies, St. Francis Xavier University, 2012

Research

Areas of Research

Western Religions, Christianity, Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther, Reformation Women, Women and Gender, Early Modern Period, Reformation Europe, Reformation Germany

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
GRST 209 Classical Mythology and Literature Summer 2023
RELS 201 Jews, Christians, and Muslims Summer 2023
RELS 200 Religious Myths and Worldviews Spring 2023
RELS 201 Jews, Christians, and Muslims Summer 2022
RELS 200 Religious Myths and Worldviews Winter 2022
RELS 201 Jews, Christians, and Muslims Fall 2021
RELS 205 Religion and the Good Life Fall 2021
RELS 201 Jews, Christians, and Muslims Summer 2021
RELS 205 Religion and the Good Life Summer 2021
RELS 200 Religious Myths and Worldviews Spring 2021
RELS 205 Religion and the Good Life Winter 2021
RELS 205 Religion and the Good Life Fall 2020
RELS 399 Religion in Popular Culture (Watching Film Religiously) Fall 2020
RELS 369 Introduction to Judaism Fall 2020
RELS 201 Jews, Christians, and Muslims Winter 2020
RELS 201 Jews, Christians, and Muslims Fall 2019
RELS 200 Religious Myths and Worldviews Spring 2019
RELS 200 Religious Myths and Worldviews Winter 2019
RELS 201 Jews, Christians, and Muslims Spring 2018
RELS 201 Jews, Christians, and Muslims Spring 2017
RELS 201 Jews, Christians, and Muslims Winter 2017
RELS 200 Religious Myths and Worldviews Spring 2016

Publications

Guest editor for a special issue of Religions on "Faith and Reason: The History of the European Reformations."

Co-chair for the History of Christianity and North American Religions Program Unit for the Pacific Northwest Region of the American Academy of Religion (2018-2023).

Graduate student director for the American Academy of Religion (2015-2018).