Alyshea Cummins
Contract Instructor
| Degrees: | B.A. (Windsor), M.A. (Wilfrid Laurier), Ph.D. (Ottawa) |
| Email: | alyshea.cummins@carleton.ca |
| Office: | By appointment |
| LinkedIn: | Connect |
Biography
Alyshea Cummins is an instructor of Religion in the College of Humanities and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. Cummins’ teaching and research interests include contemporary Islam, the sociology of religion, the anthropology of religion, religion and migration, religion and identity, religion and society, religion and politics, religious literacy, and religion and social change.
In addition to teaching, Cummins is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Nonreligion in a Complex Future project (University of Ottawa), examining nonreligious identity and nonreligious immigrant identities and recently concluded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for the Transmission of Religion Across Generations project (University of Ottawa) – examining how (non)religion is passed on from one generation to the next and the factors that contribute to the (un)successful transmission of religion across generations. Cummins also serves on the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion (CSSR) book prize committee.
Winter 2023 Courses
RELI 1741: Global Religions Identity and Community
RELI 2736: Religion and Society
Publications
Cummins, Alyshea. “Making Space Through Public Engagements: Canadian Ismaili Muslims.” In Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration, edited by Rubina Ramji and Alison Marshall. UK: Bloomsbury Press, 2022.
Beyer, Peter, Alyshea Cummins, and Scott Craig. “Religious/Spiritual Identity among Younger Adults in Canada: A Complex Portrait.” In Young People and the Diversity of (Non)Religious Identities in International Perspective, edited by Elizabeth Arweck and Heather Shipley. Springer, 2019.
Beyer, Peter, Scott Craig, and Alyshea Cummins. “Religious Identity Construction among Young Adults in Canada: The Religious, the Spiritual, and the Non-Religious.” In Youth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context: International Perspectives, edited by Paul L. Gareau, Spencer C. Bullivant, and Peter Beyer, 33–52. Brill, 2018.
Beyer, Peter, Alyshea Cummins, Scott Craig, and Manvitha Singamsetty. “Cultural and Religious Identity among 18 to 45 Year-Olds in Canada: A Survey, Summary and Selected Findings.” Ottawa, Ontario: Religion and Diversity Project, 2017.
Beyer, Peter, Alyshea Cummins, and Scott Craig. “Measuring Religious Identity Differently: A Canadian Survey Study | Beyer | Bulletin for the Study of Religion.” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 45, no. 1 (2016).