{"id":2873,"date":"2020-02-05T13:06:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/religion\/?post_type=cu-people&#038;p=2873"},"modified":"2025-01-13T08:53:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T13:53:42","slug":"jessica-ford","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/religion\/people\/jessica-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Biography<\/h3>\n<p>Jessica Ford is a Ph.D. Candidate in the department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. Currently, she is a contract instructor of religion in the College of Humanities at Carleton University, where she is teaching Hinduism (RELI2510A), and at the University of Ottawa, where she is teaching Religions of the World II (SRS2113). Her doctoral work explores the expression and transmission of Hinduism in the Canadian context through an ethnographical account of The Chinmaya Mission, a world-wide Hindu religious and spiritual organization. Her wider research interests include Hinduism, Hinduism in the diaspora, the Hindu epics and Hindu mythology, South Asian traditions, and religion in comic books\/graphic novels.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3>Publications and Papers<\/h3>\n<p>Ford, Jessica (2018). \u201cHinduism: A Very Short Introduction\u201d [Book review of book by the same name by Kim Knott]. Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion. Available online: <a href=\"http:\/\/readingreligion.org\/books\/hinduism-0\">http:\/\/readingreligion.org\/books\/hinduism-0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ford, Jessica (2014). \u201cConceptualizing the Divine: How Hindu Deities are Presented in High School World Religion Courses in Canada\u201d Paper presented at the annual DANAM conference, San Diego, CA<\/p>\n<p>Ford, Jessica (2014). \u201cThe Element of a Good Marriage: Fire, Draupadi and Marital Relationships\u201dReligious Studies and Theology 33(1): 47-64.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[10],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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