Dr. Laura Jurgens

PhD

Positions

Sessional Instructor

Faculty of Arts, Department of Classics and Religion

Contact information

lkjurgen@ucalgary.ca

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
RELS 205	Religion and the Good Life	Fall 2024
RELS 200	Religious Myths and Worldviews	Summer 2024
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

"Katharina von Bora: The Morning Star of Wittenberg." In Women Reformers in Early Modern Europe: Profiles, Texts, and Contexts, edited by Kirsi Stjerna. Fortress Press. (2022)
"Understanding Research Methodology: Social History and the Reformation Period in Europe". Religions – Special Issue on The Premodern Mind: Scientific and Religious Thought from the Middle Ages to the Reformation (Guest Editor: Scott Hendrix) . (2021)
Martin Luther and Women: Theology and Lived Experience. Peter Lang. (2020)
"Women in Luther’s Life and Theology: Scholarship in Recent Years". Religions – Special Issue on Luther, Theology, and Feminism (Guest Editor: Kirsi Stjerna) . (2020)
"Scholarship on Women, Gender, and the Reformation: Developments in Recent Years". Historical Papers: Canadian Society for Church History . 57-73. (2016)

More Information

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).