JOB POSTING FOR 2007-2008 SESSIONAL POSITIONS

Department for the Study of Religion

Faculty of Arts and Science

University of Toronto

The following jobs are posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement

Effective Date: April 2, 2007

Closing Date: April 24, 2007

Subject to budgetary approval and staffing considerations, the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toront invites applications from individuals interested in teaching the following courses during the 2007-2008 academic year. Applicants should submit:

1. a current curriculum vitae,
2. an outline of the course, method of evaluation, and required textbook(s),
3. evidence of teaching ability (e.g., summarized course evaluations, letters of reference, etc.) and
4. A CUPE application form

Please send applications to Professor John Kloppenborg, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, 123 St. George St., Toronto, ON, M5S 2E8; email: religion.undergrad@utoronto.ca. Please send hard copies of your application.

GENERAL CRITERIA FOR UNIT 3 HIRING CAN BE FOUND HERE

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RLG100Y1Y/RLG280Y1Y L5101 World Religions Monday 10-12 noon

An introduction to the Buddhist, Christian, Confucian, Hindu, Jain, Jewish, Muslim, Shinto, Sikh, Taoist, and Zoroastrian Traditions. The historical development and principle beliefs, practices, and institutions of each will be examined. Materials include selected primary sources in translation.

Sessional Appointment Dates: September 1, 2007-April 30, 2008

Enrollment Cap:

Estimated TA Hours:

Salary: $12,550 Sessional Lecturer I and $13,550 Sessional Lecturer II

Qualifications:

• Completed PhD in Religion with significant graduate work and/or ongoing academic development in the field of world religions, comparative religion, and/or phenomenology of religion;
• teaching and/or TA experience in RLG 100Y1Y/280Y1y or equivalent courses.

Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 Collective Agreement rather than the Unit 3 Collective Agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

Duties: Include presenting two hours of lectures twice a week; conducting tutorials; grading papers and exams (including make-up examinations if required); and other pedagogical and administrative tasks associated with an undergraduate course. This position includes the completion of any course work and grading not completed by April 30, 2008.

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RLG200Y1Y Phenomenon of Religion Tuesday 6-8pm

Theories about the variety and nature of religious experience, personal and collective, including historiographic, psychological, sociological, anthropological, philosophical analyses of religion. How religious life is expressed in such forms as myth, narrative and ritual, systems of belief and value, morality and social institutions.

Sessional Appointment Dates: September 1, 2007-April 30, 2008

Enrollment Cap: 150

Estimated TA Hours: based on enrollment

Salary: $12,550 Sessional Lecturer I and $13,550 Sessional Lecturer II

Qualifications:

• Completed PhD in Religion with significant graduate work and/or ongoing academic development in the field of philosophy of religion, anthropology of religion, and/or phenomenology of religion.
• teaching and/or TA experience in RLG 100Y/280Y; RLG 200Y1Y or equivalent courses

Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 Collective Agreement rather than the Unit 3 Collective Agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

Duties: Include presenting two hours of lectures a week; conducting tutorials; grading papers and exams (including make-up examinations if required); and other pedagogical and administrative tasks associated with an undergraduate course. This position includes the completion of any course work and grading not completed by April 30, 2008.

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RLG211Y1Y L0101 Introduction to the Psychology of Religion Monday 6-8pm

A survey of various psychological approaches to aspects of religion such as religious experience, doctrine, myth and symbols, ethics and human transformation. Attention will be given to phenomenological, psychoanalytic, Jungian, existentialist, and feminist approaches.

Sessional Appointment Dates: September 1, 2007-April 30, 2008

Enrollment Cap: 160

Estimated TA Hours: based on enrollment

Salary: $12,550 Sessional Lecturer I and $13,550 Sessional Lecturer II

Qualifications:

• Completed PhD in Religion or Psychology with significant graduate work and/or ongoing academic development in the field of psychology of religion;
• teaching and/or TA experience in RLG 211Y1Y or equivalent courses.

Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 Collective Agreement rather than the Unit 3 Collective Agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

Duties: Include presenting two hours of lectures a week; conducting tutorials; grading papers and exams (including make-up examinations if required); and other pedagogical and administrative tasks associated with an undergraduate course. This position includes the completion of any course work and grading not completed by April 30, 2008.

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RLG261Y1Y Introduction to Tibetan Tuesday and Thursday 12-2pm

An introduction to Tibetan for beginners. An overview of basic grammar and development of vocabulary, with readings of simple texts.

Sessional Appointment Dates: September 1, 2007-April 30, 2008

Enrollment Cap: 30

Estimated TA Hours: None

Salary: $12,550 Sessional Lecturer I and $13,550 Sessional Lecturer II

Qualifications:

• PhD preferred, but applicants who have completed all the course work requirements for a PhD program will also be considered.
• Knowledge of Tibetan
• Prior teaching at a university level is an asset.

Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 Collective Agreement rather than the Unit 3 Collective Agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

Duties: Include presenting four hours of lectures a week; conducting tutorials; grading papers and exams (including make-up examinations if required); and other pedagogical and administrative tasks associated with an undergraduate course. This position includes the completion of any course work and grading not completed by April 30, 2008.

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RLG309Y1Y Religion Morality and Law Monday 12-2pm

The system and interaction between religious and ethical norms, social and political ideals, and systems of law. The course concerns the ongoing dialectic between religious and other values, the application of religious ideas to social orders, and questions of religious and human rights.

Sessional Appointment Dates: September 1, 2007-April 30, 2008

Enrollment Cap: 160

Estimated TA Hours: Based on enrollment

Salary: $12,550 Sessional Lecturer I and $13,550 Sessional Lecturer II

Qualifications:

• Completed PhD in Religion with significant graduate work and/or ongoing academic development in the area of philosophy of religion, philosophy, ethics, and/or social theory,
• Teaching and/or TA experience in RLG 309Y1Y or equivalent courses.

Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 Collective Agreement rather than the Unit 3 Collective Agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

Duties: Include presenting two hours of lectures a week; conducting tutorials; grading papers and exams (including make-up examinations if required); and other pedagogical and administrative tasks associated with an undergraduate course. This position includes the completion of any course work and grading not completed by April 30, 2008.

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RLG344Y1Y Anti Semitism Thursday 2-4pm

The religious and cultural roots of antisemitism and its manifestations in Western civilization: anti-Jewish aspects of pagan antiquity, the adversus Judaeos tradition in classical Christian theology; racist antisemitism in Europe (the Aryan myth); the rise of political antisemitism; the Nazi phenomenon, antisemitism in Canada and the United States.

Sessional Appointment Dates: September 1, 2007-April 30, 2008

Enrollment Cap: 160

Estimated TA Hours: based on enrollment

Salary: $12,550 Sessional Lecturer I and $13,550 Sessional Lecturer II

Qualifications:

• Completed PhD in Religion with significant graduate work and/or ongoing academic development in the area of Jewish Studies, holocaust studies, history of Judaism, and/or sociological or psychological approaches to anti-semitism
• teaching and/or TA experience in RLG 344Y1Y or equivalent courses

Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 Collective Agreement rather than the Unit 3 Collective Agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

Duties: Include presenting two hours of lectures a week; conducting tutorials; grading papers and exams (including make-up examinations if required); and other pedagogical and administrative tasks associated with an undergraduate course. This position includes the completion of any course work and grading not completed by April 30, 2008.

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RLG361H1S Hindu Myth Thursday 4-6pm

Readings in Vedic, Pauranic, Tantric and folk myths; traditional Hindu understandings of myth; recent theories of interpretation, e.g. those of Levi-Strauss, Eliade, Ricoeur, applied to Hindu myths

Sessional Appointment Dates: January 1, 2008-April 30, 2008

Enrollment Cap: 90

Estimated TA Hours: based on enrollment

Salary: $6,275 Sessional Lecturer I and $6,775 Sessional Lecturer II

Qualifications:

• Completed PhD in Religion with significant graduate work and/or academic development in the study of Hinduism
• competence in source language (Sanskrit)
• teaching and/or TA experience in RLG 361H1S or equivalent courses.

Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 Collective Agreement rather than the Unit 3 Collective Agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

Duties: Include presenting two hours of lectures a week; conducting tutorials; grading papers and exams (including make-up examinations if required); and other pedagogical and administrative tasks associated with an undergraduate course. This position includes the completion of any course work and grading not completed by April 30, 2008.

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RLG469Y1Y Readings in Tibetan Buddhism

Advanced readings in Tibetan Buddhist literature. Tibetan language skills required. Prerequisite: Instructor's permission required for admission to course.

Sessional Appointment Dates: September 1, 2007-April 30, 2008

Enrollment Cap: 30

Estimated TA Hours: None

Salary: $12,550 Sessional Lecturer I, $13,550 Sessional Lecturer II

Qualifications:

• PhD preferred, but applicants who have completed all the course work requirements for a PhD program will also be considered
• Knowledge of Tibetan
• Prior teaching at a university level is an asset.

Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 Collective Agreement rather than the Unit 3 Collective Agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

Duties: Include presenting two hours of lectures a week; conducting tutorials; grading papers and exams (including make-up examinations if required); and other pedagogical and administrative tasks associated with an undergraduate course. This position includes the completion of any course work and grading not completed by April 30, 2008.