ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

l973-75 Lecturer, Religious Studies, McGill Univ.

l974-75 Research Associate, Philosophy, McGill Univ.

1974-75 Lecturer, Religious Studies, Concordia Univ.,and Champlain College

1975-76 Asst. Professor, Religious Studies, Univ. of Manitoba

l976-79 Asst. Professor, Religious Studies, Univ. of Toronto (cross-appointed to Trinity College)

1979-81 Asst. Professor, Philosophy, McGill Univ.

1981-82 Religious Studies, Univ. of Toronto

1982-83 Lecturer, Philosophy, Trent University

1983-84 Asst. Professor, Philosophy, Trent University and Lecturer in Religious Studies,

1984-85 Univ. of Toronto. Research Associate, Trinity College, Univ. of Toronto and Visit. Associate Professor in Religious Studies at McMaster University

1985 -86 Lecturer in Religious Studies, Honorary Fellow and Research Reader at the Centre for Religious Studies, Univ. of Toronto, and Research Associate at Trinity College

Lecturer in Divinity and Research Associate in Arts, Trinity College, and in Religious Studies, University of Toronto. Associate member of Centre for Bioethics, Univ. of Toronto. After 1997, Member of Joint Centre for Bioethics.

1991-92 Concurrently Associate Professor (Visit.) in Religion Dept., Concordia Univ., Montreal

1992- Lecturer, Dept for the Study of Religion, Research Associate in Arts at Trinity College. Also Lecturer at Scarborough College and Associate Member of Centre of Bioethics, Univ. of Toronto.

1995- Lecturer at Knox College, at McMaster Univ., Member of Joint Centre for Bioethics at Univ. of Toronto, and Fellow of Trinity College at Univ. of Toronto.

1996- ..Senior Fellow, Harvard University, Centre for the Study of World Religion

1998- Cross appoint. to Centre for the Study of Religion, member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics at Univ. of Toronto, of Centre for South Asian Studies, Toronto School of Theology, Lecturer in Dept. of Religion and Adj. Professor in Faculty of Divinity, Trinity College at the Univ. of Toronto,

Visit.Prof. Visva Bharati Univ., Santiniketan, India (2nd term, 1999-2000),

Lecturer in Philosophy at Scarborough College, and at Ryerson University.

2004- Professor, Faculty of Divinity, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto School of Theology.

ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION

Director: Advance Degrees, Faculty of Divinity, Trinity College (2002- )

President: Canadian Theological Society, 1985-86.

Editor: Toronto Journal of Theology (Manag. Edit.), 2005-

Canadian Theological Society Newsletter, 1984-6; 1986-7

Member: World Council, Tagore-Einstein Foundation (Santiniketan)

Senate, Trinity College (committees: academic, nominations,2002-)

Executive member (membership sec.) , International Association for the History of

Religion, March 2005- 2010 . Coordinator for Sub-committee on Funding Raising.

Convener

Religion, International Diplomacy and Economics Colloquia Series, 2002-

Advanced Degree Students Circle, 2002-

History, Method and Theory Unit at AAR, 2000

History of the Study of Religion Prog. Unit, AAR 1997-

Søren Kierkegaard Society- co-organizer, 1990

Kierkegaard Circle , Trinity College, 1987-

Kierkegaard Seminar at AAR, 1985-

Kierkegaard Symposium at Univ. of Toronto, 1986

Kierkegaard Conf.  McGill University , 1980 (assist.)

Sessions on Islam, and on Philosophy of Religion for Canadian Society for the Study of Religion annual programs, and for the Canadian Theological Society annual programs, 1990-

Committee member:

Indic Studies conference, Delhi, Program Committee (2006)

IAHR Congress, Tokyo (March, 2005) Program Committee.

IAHR Advisory Committee for new IASR ( India), 2003-2004

IAHR Advisory Commit. for Special Regional Conference, Delhi 2003

International Committee for IIT ( Kharagpur, India) Jubilee Confer. (2002)

Conference on Caribbean Religions in Comp. Perspect. Nov, 1998

Clinical Ethics Committee, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, 95-98

Board of Directors, Canadian Federation for the Humanities 1993-1995

Executive, North Amer. Assoc. for Studies in Religion 1990-1995

Søren Kierkegaard Society, Executive 1990-91

History of the Study of Religion Group at AAR, 1989-2000

Nominations Committee, Canadian Theol. Society (Chair: 1986)

Kierkegaard Seminar at AAR (Chair 1985-90)

CTS rep. on The Canadian Corporation for Stds. in Rel., 1982-85

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

AAR American Academy of Religion

CPA Canadian Philosophical Society

CSSR Canadian Society for the Study of Religion

CTS Canadian Theological Society (President 1985-86)

SKS Søren Kierkegaard Society

AASSC Assoc. for the Adv. of Scandin. Stud. in Canada.

NAASR North Amer. Assoc. for the Study of Religion 

KC Kierkegaard Circle, Toronto

EXTERNALLY AWARDED GRANTS

l971 McConnell Summer Fellowship, McGill Univ.

l972-73 Quebec Research Grant

1976-77 Univ. of Toronto Grant, Canada Council General Grant

1978-79 Trinity College, Univ. of Toronto Research Grant

1978-79 Social Sciences and Humanities Grant, Univ. of Toronto

1979-80 SSHRCC Grant (co-invest.: Prof. B. Brainerd at Univ. of Toronto)

1980-81 McGill University Research Grant

1982 Canadian Federation for Humanities Publ. Grant

1985 SSHRCC Travel Grant for Int'l Conferences.

1985-86 SSHRCC Research Grant

1986-87 SSHRCC Research Grant

1988-89 SSHRCC Research Grant

1989-91 SSHRCC Research Grant

1990-91 Int'l Conferences Travel Grant, U of T

1997-98 Harvard Univ. Fellowship, CSWR

1998-99 Templeton Foundation Award (CTNS) Sci & Rel. Course

2000-01 Templeton Foundation Development Grant

Infinity Foundation Conference Grant

OTHER PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Media (radio, television, print) resource in matters related to religions, Carribbean and Indian Diaspora

Consultation, Aligrah Muslim College, 2000

Consultant in drafting proposal for the formation of Indian Association for the Academic Study of Religion, 1990.

Methodology Conference, Univ. of Queensland, Australia, 1985

Input to program in Religious Studies at Univ. Of The South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, 1985.

Presentations at colloquia, Centre for Religious Studies, Univ. of Toronto, 1984 and 1986.