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Pamela Klassen

Pamela E. Klassen

Pamela E. Klassen is Professor of the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She is the author of several books and articles, including The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary’s Journey on Indigenous Land and Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State, coauthored with Paul Christopher Johnson and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan. Both books are forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in spring 2018. (Author photograph by Johnny Guatto) icon

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