Lauren Price
In 2019 I completed an MA in Theology: Spiritual Care and Psychotherapy at Martin Luther University College. I hold another MA in Religion and Culture (2006) and a PhD in Religious Studies in North America (2012), both from Wilfrid Laurier University.
I have taught courses on grief, death and dying; religious development and the human life cycle; psychology and religion; and religion and social change.
In addition to my academic career, I am a longtime staff member of Laurier. My current full-time role is serving as examinations co-ordinator in the Accessible Learning Centre.
My research interests include: psychoanalysis; psychoanalytic, sociological and critical approaches to individuals, culture and religion; psychotherapy; Canadian multicultural policy and practice; nationalism and Canadian identity; diversity, race and religion; ‘visible’ identities; historical and contemporary examples of religious exclusion in Canada; ‘contentious’ identities; group and individual rights; religious freedom as a human right; religious exclusion; religion and popular film and literature; and interdisciplinary approaches to studying religion and culture.
- 2014 (April) “Chapter 8. Healing the Divide – Applying a Psychoanalytic Framework to Religious Oppression and Exclusion in Canada.” In Psychotherapy: Cure of the Soul, edited by Thomas St. James O’Connor, Kristine Lund and Patricia Berendsen, 172-190. Waterloo: Waterloo Lutheran Seminary.
- 2019 "Faith Loss and Meaning: Frameworks of Meaning as a Practical Approach to Spirituality in the Therapy Room" Consensus: A Canadian Journal of Public Theology, vol. 40(1).
- 2017 "Regulating access to Mother Meera, "Who Should Receive Darshan?": A cultural psychoanalytic study of conflict surrounding a Hindu avatara" Second author with Prof. Chris Ross, The Journal of Happiness & Well-Being
- 2010 “Principles of Cultural Psychology and the Hindu Avatar Tradition: A Study of Mother Meera Through Personal Narrative” Second author with Prof. Chris Ross, Journal of Culture and Religion, vol. 11, no. 3, p. 195-211.