Dr Andrew Hass

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Religion Stirling, FK9 4LA

Dr Andrew Hass

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As a teacher and researcher in Religion, I operate in an interdisciplinary space. This is a space from which I began: I joined Stirling in September 2003 after studies in English (BA) and Theology (MTh), both within Canada, a PhD at the Centre For the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts in Glasgow, and a position as the Carolyn Grant Fay Visiting Associate Professor in Religion and Literature at the University of Houston in Texas. At each of these steps I have advanced interdisciplinary lines of enquiry which, though starting from religious or ethical questions, necessarily run through other disciplines, discourses and modes of expression: philosophy, the arts (literature, drama, painting, music), hermeneutics, critical theory, ethics, sociology, and science. This approach is encapsulated in the Critical Religion framework that we have developed here at Stirling, an internationally recognized research paradigm that informs all my teaching and scholarship. I am also the General Secretary of the International Society of Religion, Literature and Culture, a network of global scholars seeking to interrogate the limits and possibilities of religion through multiple discourses, in order to better address ethically and critically the pressing concerns of our complex world.