Steven Engler

Who is Steven Engler?

Steven Joseph Engler is a Canadian scholar of religion. He currently is associate professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. From 2005-2005 he was a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in Ciêncas da Religião at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Palo.

Engler is the editor of leading journals and book series in the field of Religious Studies. In his work, he has analyzed major publications of the field and the academic landscape of religious studies in Latin America. His research focuses on science and religion, including creationism and ayurveda, and, more recently, on Brazilian religions such as Kardecism and Umbanda, which he analyzes in light of theoretical concepts such as agency, deference, indexicality, hybridity and virtuality. In his work on theories of religion, he proposes to engage semantics.