Stoeber, Michael

I grew up in Calgary, Alberta, completing undergraduate studies and an MA, and teaching junior and high school social studies, before moving east with my family to McMaster University and the University of Toronto for doctoral studies. After receiving a PhD in philosophy of religion in 1990 through the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, I received a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1990-92, then worked as assistant and then as associate professor in the Department of Religion at The Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. (1992-2000). I was also a visiting professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, Erindale College, University of Toronto, 1996-97.

In 2000 we moved back to Canada, to work at Regis College and TST, cross-appointed to the Departments of Pastoral Theology and Theology. I was nominated as member of Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit Honor Society in 2005, promoted to ordinary professor in 2007, and cross-appointed to the Department for the Study of Religion in 2011 (status only). I also served as Scarboro Missions Chair in Interreligious Dialogue at the Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre for Practical Theology, 2018-2021. My research areas are comparative spirituality and philosophy of religion, with current interests especially in meditation, prayer, and yoga, as well as topics on the intersection of spirituality and art.