Andrew M. Eason
Curriculum Vitae
Religion Department
Booth University College
447 Webb Place
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 2P2
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (204) 924-4860
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Education
September 2005
Ph.D. (Religious Studies), University of Calgary (Calgary, Alberta)
Dissertation: “Christianity in a Colonial Age: Salvation Army Foreign
Missions from Britain to India and South Africa, 1882-1929”
May 1998
M.A. (Religious Studies), University of Windsor (Windsor, Ontario)
Thesis: “Gender and Equality in God’s Army: An Examination of
Women’s Public and Domestic Roles in the Salvation Army, British
Origins to 1930”
June 1995
B.A. (General Studies), University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario)
May 1991
M.T.S., Tyndale Seminary (Toronto, Ontario)
April 1988
B.A. (Biblical and Theological Studies), Booth College (Winnipeg,
Manitoba)
Employment
Associate Professor of Religion, Booth University College, July 1, 2016Assistant Professor of Religion, Booth University College, January 1, 2009-June 30, 2016
(Tenure Granted on January 22, 2016)
Director of the Centre for Salvation Army Studies, Booth University College, 2009Head of the Religion Program, Booth University College, 2015-
Teaching Experience
Booth University College
REL 100 Introduction to Christianity
REL 270 World Religions
REL 323 Christian Thought from the Second Century to Augustine
REL 324 Christian Thought from Augustine to the Reformation
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REL 325
REL 371
REL 374
REL 378
REL 395
REL 395
REL 490
HIS 206
HIS 209
Christian Thought from the Reformation to the Present
Medieval and Modern Judaism
Islam
Hinduism and Buddhism
Selected Topics in Religion: Death and the Afterlife in World Religions
Selected Topics in Religion: Christianity and Culture
Research in Religion
History of the Salvation Army
Church History
Sessional Instructor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary, Summer 2008
RELS 333 Religious Perspectives on Death and Afterlife
Sessional Instructor, Booth College, January 2003-April 2008
HIS 206 History of the Salvation Army
Teaching Assistant, Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary, Winter 2001
RELS 489 Advanced Studies in Modern Christianity (marked papers)
Guest Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary, Winter 2000
RELS 389 Modern Christianity (gave one lecture)
Guest Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, University of Windsor, 1997
RS 440/502 Method in Religious Studies (gave one lecture)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Religious Studies, University of Windsor, 1995-1998
RS 100 Exploring Religious Studies (gave four lectures)
RS 104 Critical Issues in Religion and Life Today (marked exams; gave one lecture)
RS 221 Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (marked assignments)
RS 225 Feminist Theology (marked papers; gave one lecture)
RS 236 Women’s Spirituality (marked exams and papers; gave three lectures)
RS 261 World Religions: Western (marked exams)
RS 267 Islam (marked papers)
Teaching Interests
History of Christianity (Early Church to the Present)
World Religions
Christianity and Culture
Christian Thought (Early Church to the Present)
Islam (Survey)
Judaism (Survey)
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Professional Development
Two Day Workshop on the Global Classroom (training on how to use the technology in videoenabled classrooms; pedagogical best practices in the video-enabled classroom), Booth
University College, May 17-18, 2016
Rethinking Islamic Studies, Preconference Workshop, American Academy of Religion Annual
Meeting, San Diego, California, November 21, 2014 (this four hour workshop addressed key
topics and best practices in teaching Islam to undergraduate students)
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, November 23-26, 2013
(attended four sessions dealing with teaching tactics and online resources)
The Teaching Professor Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 31-June 2, 2013 (attended
the two plenary addresses and informative sessions on constructive feedback, introverts in the
classroom, academic dishonesty, engagement strategies, and teaching unprepared students)
“What to Teach When There Isn’t Time to Teach Everything,” Magna Online Seminar,
Thursday, August 26, 2010 (75 minute seminar presented by Ruth Rodgers)
“A Journey from Cultural Awareness to Cultural Competency,” Booth College, June 7-9, 2010
(15 hour workshop sponsored by the Aboriginal Education Directorate, Ministry of Education,
Government of Manitoba; designed to foster greater respect for and understanding of Aboriginal
culture so we can better assist students from First Nation communities)
“Developing and Sustaining Colleges and Universities with Soul,” Private Colleges Professional
Development Day, Providence College, May 19, 2010
“Instructional Skills Workshop,” University of Calgary, September 2-5, 2008 (24 hours of
intensive training in teaching methodologies and practices, including laboratory sessions
designed to evaluate and enhance my teaching in the classroom)
Publications
Books
Settled Views: The Shorter Writings of Catherine Booth, ed. Andrew M. Eason and Roger J.
Green. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, forthcoming. (I am the lead editor)
Boundless Salvation: The Shorter Writings of William Booth, ed. Andrew M. Eason and Roger J.
Green. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. (I was the lead editor)
Women in God’s Army: Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army. Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003.
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Book Chapter
“‘Go into all the world’: An Overview of Salvationist Missiology.” In Saved, Sanctified and
Serving: Perspectives on Salvation Army Theology and Practice, edited by Denis Metrustery.
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom: Paternoster Press, 2016. Pp. 174-190.
Articles
“‘We’re Marching on to Conquer All’: The Question of Imperialism in Early Salvation Army
Music,” Word and Deed: A Journal of Salvation Army Theology and Ministry 17, 2 (May 2015):
21-32.
“The Strategy of a Missionary Evangelist: How William Booth Shaped the Salvation Army’s
Earliest Work at Home and Abroad,” in The International Bulletin of Missionary Research 38, 4
(October 2014): 183-186. (peer-reviewed)
“Religion versus the Raj: The Salvation Army’s ‘Invasion’ of British India,” Mission Studies:
Journal of the International Association for Mission Studies 28, 1 (2011): 71-90. (peer-reviewed)
“‘Desperate Fighting at the Cape’: The Salvation Army’s Arrival and Earliest Work in LateVictorian Cape Town,” Journal of Religious History 33, 3 (September 2009): 265-284. (peerreviewed)
“The Salvation Army and the Sacraments in Victorian Britain: Retracing the Steps to NonObservance,” Fides et Historia 41, 2 (Summer/Fall 2009): 51-71. (peer-reviewed)
“‘All Things to All People to Save Some’: Salvation Army Missionary Work among the Zulus of
Victorian Natal,” Journal of Southern African Studies 35, 1 (March 2009): 7-27. (peer-reviewed)
“The Salvation Army in Late-Victorian Britain: The Convergence of Church and Sect.” Word
and Deed: A Journal of Salvation Army Theology and Ministry 5, 2 (May 2003): 3-27.
Dictionary Entries
“The Salvation Army,” in The Global Wesleyan Dictionary of Theology, ed. Al Truesdale.
Kansas City, Missouri: Beacon Hill Press, 2013. Pp. 481-482.
Book Reviews
Gudrun Maria Lydholm, Lutheran Salvationists? The Development towards Registration as an
Independent Faith Community in The Salvation Army in Norway with Focus on the Period 1975–
2005 (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2017) in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History
(forthcoming)
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Norman H. Murdoch, Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe: The Salvation Army and
African Liberation, 1891-1991 (Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2015) in The Journal of
Ecclesiastical History (April 2016): 455-456.
Robert A. Ventresca, Soldier of Christ: The Life of Pope Pius XII (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2013) in The Canadian Journal of History (Spring-Summer 2014): 115-116.
Gordon Cox, The Musical Salvationist: The World of Richard Slater (1854-1939). (Woodbridge,
Suffolk, United Kingdom: Boydell Press, 2011) in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History
(January 2013): 202-203.
Henry Gariepy, Christianity in Action: The International History of The Salvation Army (Grand
Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2009) in The Journal of Religion (January 2011): 87-88.
Harold Hill, Leadership in the Salvation Army: A Case Study in Clericalisation (Milton Keynes,
United Kingdom: Paternoster Press, 2006) in Fides et Historia: Journal of the Conference on
Faith and History (Summer/Fall 2008): 130-131.
John G. Merritt, ed. Historical Dictionary of the Salvation Army (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow
Press, 2006) in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (October 2007): 795-796.
Roger J. Green, The Life and Ministry of William Booth: Founder of the Salvation Army
(Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005) in The Journal of Religion (April 2007): 281-282.
Ann M. Woodall, What Price the Poor? William Booth, Karl Marx and the London Residuum
(London: Ashgate, 2005) in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (January 2007): 170-171.
Irene Whelan, The Bible War in Ireland: The “Second Reformation” and the Polarization of
Protestant-Catholic Relations, 1800-1840 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005) in
The Canadian Journal of History (Winter 2006): 583-585.
Pamela J. Walker, Pulling the Devil’s Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001) in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History
(January 2003): 188-189.
Diane Winston, Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1999) in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (January 2002): 193.
Research in Progress
Book based upon part of my dissertation, tentatively entitled “Christianity in a Colonial Age:
The Salvation Army in British India” (projected completion date: 2021)
The impact of World Missions on the life and thought of Catherine Booth
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George Scott Railton’s contributions to Salvation Army Missions
Research Areas
The Salvation Army in Victorian and Edwardian Britain (religious and social history)
The Salvation Army in British India (religious and social history; interaction with empire and
culture; gender)
The Salvation Army in Colonial South Africa (religious and social history; interaction with
empire and culture; gender)
William and Catherine Booth (life and thought)
Paper Presentations at Academic Conferences
“Spreading Salvation Abroad: The Impact of World Missions on the Life and Thought of
Catherine Booth,” Forthcoming at the American Academy of Religion, Additional Meeting
(Salvation Army Scholars and Friends), Boston, Massachusetts, November 18, 2017
“‘Love all Nations’: George Scott Railton’s Contributions to Salvationist Missions,” American
Academy of Religion, Additional Meeting (Salvation Army Scholars and Friends), San Diego,
California, November 22, 2014
“‘We’re Marching to Conquer All’: The Question of Imperialism in Early Salvation Army
Music,” Canadian Society of Church History, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, May 25, 2014
“Marching as to . . .? A Quantitative Assessment of the Salvation Army’s Global Health,”
American Academy of Religion, Additional Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, November 23, 2013
“William Booth as Missionary Strategist: An Overlooked Aspect of His Legacy,” Conference on
Faith and History, 28th Biennial Meeting, Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, October 5,
2012
“Embracing the Brother to Representing the Other: The Salvation Army’s Promotion of Foreign
Missions in Victorian London,” Documentation, Archives, Bibliography and Oral History Study
Group, 13th Assembly of the International Association for Mission Studies, Toronto, August 18,
2012
“Missions, Race and Representation: The Salvation Army’s Portrayal of Africa and India in
Victorian Britain,” Canadian Society of Church History, Congress of the Humanities and Social
Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, May 29,
2012
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“A Cradle of Empire? The Salvation Army and Imperialism, 1878-1914,” Canadian Society of
Church History, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia University,
Montreal, Quebec, May 31, 2010
“The Salvation Army and the Sacraments in Victorian England: Retracing the Steps to
Nonobservance,” Canadian Society of Church History, Congress of the Humanities and Social
Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, May 26, 2009
“‘All Things to All People to Save Some’: Salvation Army Missionary Work among the Zulus of
Victorian Natal,” Conference on Faith and History, 26th Biennial Meeting, Bluffton University,
Bluffton, Ohio, September 19, 2008
“‘Desperate Fighting at the Cape’: The Salvation Army’s Arrival and Earliest Work in LateVictorian Cape Town,” American Academy of Religion Eastern International Regional Meeting,
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, May 4, 2007
“Revivalism, Religious Liberty, and the Colonial State: The Salvation Army in Late-Victorian
Bombay, 1882-1883,” Canadian Society of Church History, Congress of the Humanities and
Social Sciences, York University, Toronto, Ontario, May 29, 2006
Other Presentations
“Settled Views: The Life and Thought of Catherine Booth,” Post-Sabbatical Presentation, Booth
University College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, March 20, 2017
“Roger J. Green’s Contributions to Salvation Army Scholarship: A Tribute,” Salvation Army
Scholars and Friends second session, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San
Antonio, Texas, November 19, 2016
“Marching as to . . .? A Quantitative Assessment of the Salvation Army’s Global Health,” Spring
Meeting of the Booth University College Board of Trustees, Winnipeg, Manitoba, April 26, 2014
“Global Christianity,” Lecture Series, Epiphany Lutheran Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba,
February 17 and 24, 2013
“Christianity and Culture,” Lecture Series, Epiphany Lutheran Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba,
November 4 and 18, 2012
Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards
Sabbatical awarded for a six month period: July 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016
Province of Alberta Graduate Fellowships, University of Calgary (1999-2003): $53,750
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Graduate Research Scholarships, University of Calgary, Department of Religious Studies (20022004): $16,070
Aid to Scholarly Publications Program Grant, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences,
2002
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (1999-2000): $11,859 — declined
Postgraduate Tuition Scholarships, University of Windsor (1995-1997): $4,945
Arts Faculty Upper Year Scholarship, University of Waterloo (1994)
Governor General’s Medal (Highest Grade Point Average for a Graduating Student), Booth
College (1988)
Doris M. Davies Memorial Scholarship, Booth College (1987)
Service to the Scholarly Community
Organizer of the “Salvation Army Scholars and Friends” session at the American Academy of
Religion / Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings, Boston, Massachusetts, November 18,
2017
Co-organizer of the “Salvation Army Scholars and Friends” sessions at the American Academy
of Religion / Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings, San Antonio, Texas, November 19,
2016
Chaired the first session of the “Salvation Army Scholars and Friends” gathering at the American
Academy of Religion / Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings, San Antonio, Texas,
November 19, 2016
Evaluated a journal article for Religion & Gender, a journal published by the International
Association for the Study of Religion and Gender, Utrecht University, Netherlands, June 2016
Examiner for Kalie Maree Webb, “Suffering in Contemporary Wesleyan Theological
Perspective: Shaping a Salvationist Response,” Master of Theology Major Thesis, University of
Divinity, Victoria, Australia, December 2015
Organized and chaired the “Salvation Army Scholars and Friends” session at the American
Academy of Religion / Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia,
November 21, 2015
Organized a panel on William Booth for the Conference on Faith and History, 28th Biennial
Meeting, Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, October 4-6, 2012
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Evaluated a journal article for the International Journal of African Historical Studies, Boston
University, February 2008
Service to the University
Senate Executive Committee, 2017Senate Curriculum Committee Member, Booth University College, 2009-2010; 2017Senate Instruction and Policy Committee Chair, Booth University College, 2012-2016
New Programs Faculty Working Group, Booth University College, Spring 2016
Booth University College Faculty Manual Working Group (revising section four, Core Faculty
Responsibilities and Rights), 2015-2016
Search Committee Member (for tenure-track faculty opening in the Booth University College
Business program), 2016
Search Committee Member (for tenure-track faculty opening in the Booth University College
Psychology program), 2015-2016
Senate Planning and Priorities Committee Member, Booth University College, 2015
Booth Bound (Preview Weekend for Prospective Students) Planning Committee Member, Booth
University College, 2009-2015
Search Committee Member (for tenure-track faculty opening in the Booth University College
Business program), 2014-2015
Academic Appeals Committee Member, Booth University College, 2013
Senate Instruction and Policy Committee Member, Booth University College, 2011-2012
Research Ethics Board Member, University of Windsor, 2005-2008
Memberships in Scholarly Societies
American Academy of Religion
Canadian Society of Church History
Conference on Faith and History
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