FULL-TIME FACULTY PROFILE: DR. NORMAN KNOWLES

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Dr. Norman Knowles Professor, History Phone: ( 403) 254-3718 Norman.Knowles (at) stmu.ca Office: A323 PhD History, York University, Toronto MA History, Queen's University, Kingston BA (Honours), History/Political Science, Huron College, University of Western Ontario, London Specialization/research interests: 19th and 20th century North American social, cultural and religious history; religion and the working class in Canada and religion in Alberta

Faculty Profile: Textbook by Dr. Norman Knowles Narrates Canadian History

Recent and Current Scholarly Activity

Monographs - In Progress
With David Marshall.  Prophetic Voices:  A History of Religion in Alberta. Alberta Reflections Series.  University of Alberta Press. As Christ the Carpenter: Religion and the Working Class in English Canada, 1880-1920.

Textbooks - In Progress
Raymond Blake, Jeffrey Keshen, Norman Knowles and Barbara Messamore, Creating Canada:  A Narrative History to Confederation. Toronto:  McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2010.

Book Chapter
 “’By the Mouth of Many Messengers’:  Mission and Social Service in Canadian Anglicanism” and “’A Union not for Harmony but for Strength’:  The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada” in Norman Knowles, ed., Seeds Scattered and Sown:  Studies in the History of Canadian Anglicanism.  Toronto:  ABC, 2008.

Book Review
Sunday in Canada: The Rise and Fall of the Lord’s Day by Paul Laverdure.  Journal of the Canadian Church History Society (Spring 2008).

Edited Work
Seeds Scattered and Sown:  Studies in the History of Canadian Anglicanism.  Toronto:  ABC, 2008.

Papers
“Pioneers, Priests and Promoters:  The History of the Lacombe Site,” Chinook County Historical Society, 29 July 2008.

‘”I went down to the Rectory’:  A Case Study of Authority, Gender and Formation in early Twentieth-Century Canadian Anglicanism,” Huron University College, London Ontario, 28 January 2008.

Film Reviews
``The Asphalt Gospel,` The Sower, May 2008
``The Spiderwick Chronicles,`` The Sower, March 2008
``The Golden Compass,`` The Sower, January 2008
``Atonement,`` The Sower, November 2007
``Little Miss Sunshine,`` September 2007.