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Dr. Sheila A. Redmond
Department of History and Philosophy
Email:: sheila.redmond@algomau.ca
Room:: WW106
Phone:::  949-2301 x4228

Credentials ::

Research Interests ::
  • Early Judaism & Christianity  (200 BCE to 450 CE): spec. apocalypticism/mlllenarianism, the Jewish Wars against Rome, and canonical development in both early Christianity and early Judaism

  • The Impact of Christianity on Recovery from Child Sexual Abuse 


Courses ::
 

Current: Fall 2008
  • History of the Ancient Near East to the Death of Alexander the Great
  • History of the Canadian Family from Colonial Times to the Present.
  • Origins of Western Philosophy
Previous courses


 

Selected Publications ::

 

  •  “Remember the Good, Forget the Bad: Denial and Family Violence in the Christian Worship Service” in J. Walton and M. Procter-Smith, eds., Women at Worship: Interpretations of North American Diversity. Philadelphia: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993, 71-82 

  • 1989:     “Christian Virtues and Recovery From Child Sexual Abuse” in J.C. Brown and C. Bohn, eds., Christianity, Patriarchy and Abuse: A Feminist Critique (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1989) 70-88        [This book is presently out of print]
  • Download the article here: Christian "Virtues" and Recovery from Child Sexual Abuse

 

 

More Publications

 

Selected Presentations :: 

Selected Presentations at Professional Societies and Conferences: 

  • 2006:     “The Sins of the Father God”, Part II: The Sacrifice of the Believer to the System” Montreal International Workshop for A Multifactoral Approach of Sexual Abuse Impacts On Religious Beliefs May 25-26. Université du Montréal QC 

  • 2006:     « Les péchés du Papa dieu, Première partie : La culpabilisation de la victime -- Rizzuto et le développement de l'image de dieu » ACFAS May 18, Montreal QC.

  • 2004:     “Accountability in Trauma Therapy with Adult Survivors Raised in the Christian Belief System: The Birth of an Anthropologian” Paper presented to the Joint Annual Meeting of the Religious Research Association and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, October 22-24, Kansas City MI 

  • 2002:     « Dynamiques spirituelles et religieuses des abus sexuels en milieu chrétien : le “Dieu des victimes” remis en question ». Présentée en collaboration avec Jean-Guy Nadeau au Congrès de la Société canadienne de théologie à Québec le 26 octobre 2002. 

  • 2002:     “God Isn’t Really Like That! – Or is he? The Child, the Bible and the Patriarchal God” Paper presented to the American Academy of Religion – Eastern International Region Annual Meeting. Ottawa ON

  • 1988:     “The Making of a Heroine: The Child Sexual Abuse Victim as Saint”. Paper presented to the Conference on Heroic Women in Politics, Religion, Literature and Society, Carleton University, Ottawa ON

  • 1988:     Panel presentation: “The State of Research on Women and Religion”, Canadian Centre for the Study of Women and Religion, Department of Religious Studies, University of Ottawa

  • 1984:     "Pauline Christianity and Millenarian Theory”. Paper presented to the American Academy of Religion, Eastern International Region Annual Meeting, MacMaster University, Hamilton, ON

  • 1984:     Panel presentation: Feminist Interpretation of the New Testament, Department of Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON

Selected University Lectures: 

  • 1996:     “Non-western religious perspectives and solutions to solving the ecological crisis”. Environments, Technology and Values. Department of Philosophy, Carleton University, Ottawa ON

  • 1994:     “The Impact of Gender Studies on the Study of Religion at the End of the Twentieth Century”. Interpretations  of Religion, Department of Religion, Carleton University, Ottawa ON

  • 1991:     “The Origins of a Pedestal: Maria Goretti and Religious Violence”. Women and Religion, Department of Religious Studies, University of Ottawa., Ottawa ON

  • 1989:     “Reinterpretation of Religious Myth: An Exercise in Futility?” Women and Religion, Department of Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON

  • 1988:     “Mary Daly and Eve, the Fallen Woman”. Women and Religion, Department of Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON

  • 1988:     “Religion and Violence: The Christian Roots of Family Violence”. MSW course: Violence in Relationships, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

  • 1987:     “Christian Virtues and Recovery From Child Sexual Abuse”. Women and Religion, Department of Religion, Carleton University, Ottawa ON

Professional Memberships ::