Faculty Associate
turnera[at]yorku.ca
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities, York University
Research Keywords:
Religion; colonialism; nationalism; Burma Myanmar
Research Region(s):
Burma/Myanmar, Southeast Asia
Research Diaspora(s):
Alicia Turner is Associate Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies at York University in Toronto. Her research focuses on the intersections of religion, colonialism and nationalism. Her book Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma (Hawai’i 2014) explores the fluid nature of the concepts of sāsana, identity and religion through a study of Buddhist lay associations in colonial Burma. She recently published The Irish Buddhist (OUP 2020) with Laurence Cox and Brian Bocking a biography of an Irish sailor and agitator turned Buddhist monk. She is currently finishing a book on the genealogy of religious difference and conflict in Burma Myanmar.