Darlene Juschka is an associate professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and the Religious Studies Department at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan Canada. Her work is multidisciplinary with a B.A. in Classical Studies, a M.A. in ritual studies ancient and modern, and a PhD in the Phenomenology of Religion (ritual, myth, and symbol) and Religion and Feminism. She has currently begun a second writing project – a poststructural analysis of the concept of pain in the Eurowest, and is working on two major research projects; “The Healing Journey: A Longitudinal Study of Women Who Have Been Abused by Intimate Partners” and “Gendering Livelihood Vulnerability And Livelihood Adaptation To Climate Change In Ghana.”














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2009. Political Bodies/ Body Politic: The Semiotics of Gender. Equinox Press.











 







2001. Feminism in the Study of Religion: A Reader. Continuum.










Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

2012. "Fixed geomorphologies and the shifting sands of time." In William Arnal, Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon (eds.), Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion: Essays in Honor of Donald Wiebe. Londonand New York: Equinox Press. In Press.

2012. Kubik, W., Hampton, M., Juschka, D., Bourassa, C., Jeffery,B. "Talking to the *Healing Journey* Interviewers:  Ethical Concerns and Dilemmas" in Journeys in Community-Based Research.  Regina: Saskatchewan Population Health Evaluationand Research Unit. In press.  

2011. "Pain, Gender, and Systems of Belief and Practice." Religion Compass 5 (11):709-719.

2011. "Feminisms in the study of systems of beliefs and practice." In Lesley Biggs and Pamela Downe(eds.).Gendered intersections: An introduction to Women*s and Gender Studies. 2nd ed. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.

2010. The Amazon, Rhetor, and Priest: Feminism, Politics and Religion.E-International Relations. October 16.

2010. Hampton, Mary, Kubik, Wendee, Juschka, Darlene, Bourassa, Carrie, and Woods, Meghan. "Resolved to end violence in our society." In A.Brenda Anderson, Wendee Kubik, and Mary R. Hampton (eds.), Torn From Our Midst: Voices of Grief, Healing and Action from the Missing Indigenous Women Conference 2008, 221-233.  Regina, SK: University of Regina, CPRC press.  

2009. "Penetrating the Body of the Masculine *Other*: White US Masculinity, War, and the Ritual of Truth." In The CSSR Bulletin 38 (4) (November): 1-6.

2009. "Gender." In John Hinnells (ed.), The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion, 2nd edition. 225-238.  London and New York: Routledge.

2008. The Fantasy of Gender/Sex: Angela Carter and Mythmaking. In Lee Easton and Randy Schroeder (eds.) The Influence of Imagination: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy as Agents of Social Change, 160-173. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

2008. Deconstructing the Eliadean Paradigm: Symbol. In Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon, eds. Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith, 163-177. London: Equinox Publishers.

2007. "Masculinity." In James T. Sears (ed.) The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality through History, Vol. 6, The Modern World, 146-150. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group.

2007. "Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down: Waking up in Women’s Studies." In Mathieu Courville (ed.), The Next Step in Studying Religion A Graduate's Guide, 157-168. London: Continuum.

2006. "Interdisciplinarity in Religious and Women’s Studies." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses. 35(3-4): 389-399.

2005. "Spectacles of Gender: Enacting the Masculine in Ancient Rome and Modern Cinema." Religious Studies and Theology, Special Volume: Materializing Roman Religion, Guest Editor Lisa Hughes, 24 (1) : 75-110.

2005. "Gender." In John Hinnells (ed.), The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion. 225-238. London and New York: Routledge.

2004. "Cladistics, Morphologies, Taxonomies and the Comparative Study of Religion." Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 16 (1): 12-23.

2003. "The Writing of Ethnography: Magical Realism and Michael Taussig." Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 4 (4): 84-105.

2003. "Whose Turn is it to Cook?: Victor Turner’s Communitas and Pilgrimage Questioned." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 36 (4): 189-204.

2002. "Feminist Christian Theological Engagements with Symbol, Myth and Ritual." ARC, The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies (McGill) 30: 7-33.

2001. "A Nod in the General Direction of...: Gender in the Study of Religion." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses. 30 (2):215-222.

2001. "Disney and Fundamentalism: The Fetishization of the Family and the Production of American Family Values." Culture and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 2 (1): 21-39.

2000. Darlene Jusckha and Stephan Dobson. "Levi-Strauss." In Charles Winquist and Victor E. Taylor (eds). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Postmodernism. London and New York: Routledge, 301-303.