Biography

André Gagné is Full Professor in the Department of Theological Studies. He has a conjoint PhD from l'Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) and l'Université de Montréal, a M.A. and B.Th. from l'Université de Montréal.

His teaching and scholarship focus on political theology, religion and violence, Pentecostalism, and the interpretation and reception of the Bible.

Dr. Gagné's work and interviews have been featured in media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, Al-Jazeera, GQ, Salon, Mother Jones, Religion News Services, Religion Dispatches, Daily Kos, Le Monde, Libération, France Inter, Grands reportages RFI, Médiapart, France Culture, Le Figaro, Paris Match, Le Parisien, Le Devoir, La Presse, CTV W5, RDI 24/60, etc.

View André Gagné's CV

Winter 2023

THEO 657 - Political Theology (Graduate Seminar)

Fall 2023

THEO 298 - Global Pentecostalism
THEO 605 - Methods in Biblical Studies (Graduate Seminar)

Winter 2024

THEO 232 - The Bible in U.S. Politics

Books (consult CV for the complete list of publications)

Religion and Violence in Western Traditions. Selected Studies. (Studies in Religion). Milton Park, Milton: UK, Routledge, 2021 [co-ed. with J. Guyver and G. Oegema].

Ces évangéliques derrière Trump. Hégémonie, démonologie et fin du monde. (Enquêtes 6). Genève, Labor et Fides, 2020.

The Gospel according to Thomas. Introduction, Translation and Commentary. (Apocryphes 16). Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2019.

The Global Impact of Religious Violence. Eugene, OR., Wipf and Stock, 2016 [co-ed. with S. Loumakis and C. Miceli].

Constructing Religious Identities during the Second Temple Period / Construction des identités religieuses à l’époque de la période du Second Temple. (Biblical Tools and Studies 24). Louvain, Peeters, 2016 [co-ed. with A. Gignac and G. Oegema].

En marge du canon: études sur les écrits apocryphes juifs et chrétiens. (Coll. L’écriture de la Bible 2). Paris: Cerf, 2012 [co-ed. with J.-F. Racine].

Le Vivant qui fait vivre. Esprit, éthique et résurrection dans le Nouveau Testament. (Sciences bibliques; études 22). Montréal: Médiaspaul, 2011 [co-ed. with A. Gignac and S. Paquette Lessard].