Professor Scott teaches various courses in Religion and Culture, including “Introduction to the Study of Religion,” “Religion and Film,” “Religion and Television,” “Religion and Postcolonial Literatures” and “Christianity and Film.” He has recently completed a textbook, The Religions of Canadians (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010), and an essay, “Religions and Postcolonial Literatures,” for the Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2010). He is currently working on a collection of essays examining the representation of mountains in literature, as well as a monograph on world religions and postcolonial literatures. Professor Scott serves as Director of the Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies, and he is a member of the graduate programmes in Geography, English and Humanities as well.

Recent Publications:

“Representing Sacred Space: Pilgrimage and Literature.” In T. Coomans, H. De Dijn, J. De Maeyer, R. Heynickx and B. Verschaffel, eds. Loci Sacri: Understanding Sacred Places. KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society, 7. Leuven: Leuven University Press. Forthcoming, 2009.

“Missions and Film.” International Bulletin of Missionary Research. 32.3 (2008): 115-20.

“Missions in Fiction.” International Bulletin of Missionary Research. 32.3 (2008): 121-28.

“Missions in Fiction.” Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries. Ed. Jonathan Bonk. London and New York: Routledge. 2007. Pp. 159-63.

“Missions in Film.” Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries. Ed. Jonathan Bonk. London and New York: Routledge. 2007. Pp. 163-67.

       “Postcolonial Cultures and the Jewish Imaginary,” in Axel Stähler, ed. Anglophone Jewish Literature. London: Routledge (2007): 51-64.

        “Christianity and Literature.” In Douglas Killam and Alicia L. Kerfoot, eds. Student Encyclopedia of African Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007. Pp. 257-68 (reprint of “Christianity and Literature.” In Douglas Killam and Ruth Rowe, eds. The Companion to African Literatures. Oxford: James Currey; Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. Pp. 240-49).

“Writing Suffering: Trauma, Testimony and Transcendence in Canadian Literature,” Literature and Religion 10.2 (2005): 97-131.

Canadian Missions, Indigenous Peoples: Representing Religion at Home and Abroad. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (edited with Alvyn Austen. 2005).

“Cultivating Christians in Colonial Canadian Missions,” in Jamie S. Scott and Alvyn Austen, eds. Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples: Representing Religion at Home and Abroad. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (2005), 21-45.

Mixed Messages: Materiality, Textuality, Missions. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (edited with Gareth Griffiths. 2005).

“Penitential and Penitentiary: Native Canadians and Mission Education,” in Jamie S. Scott and Gareth Griffiths, eds. Mixed Messages: Materiality, Textuality, Missions. New York: Palgrave (2005), 111-33.

“Residential Schools and Native Canadian Writers,” in Peter H. Marsden and Geoffrey V. Davis, ed. Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Human Rights in a ‘Post’-Colonial World. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi (2004), 237-46.

“Religion, Literature and Canadian Cultural Identities.” Literature and Theology 16.2 (2002): 1-14. Edited with Paul Simpson-Housley, Mapping the Sacred: Religion, Geography and Post-Colonial Literatures. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi (2001).

“Mapping the Sacred across Post-Colonial Literatures.” In Jamie S. Scott and Paul Simpson-Housley, eds. Mapping the Sacred: Religion, Geography and Post-Colonial Literatures. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi (2001), xv-xxxiii.

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