Pamela Dickey Young

Professor of Religious Studies and Acting Director, Queen's School of Religion, Queen's University, Ontario

Pamela Dickey Young is Professor and Acting Director at Queen’s School of Religion.
Her research interests concern the intersections of religion, sex, gender and public policy.

Her most recent research project (with Heather Shipley, York University) is a study entitled “Religion, Gender and Sexuality Among Youth in Canada Selected publications include: Religion, Sex and Politics: Christian Churches and Same-Sex Marriage in Canada. Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2012; Women and Religious Traditions. 3rd edition. edited with Leona Anderson. Toronto: Oxford University Press,2015; “Who Speaks for Religion?” Issues in Religion and Education: Whose Religion?, eds. Lori Beaman and Leo Van Arragon. Leiden: Brill, 2015, 305-320; “’Severely Normal’: Sexuality and Religion in Alberta’s Bill 44,” in Religion and Sexuality: Diversity and the Limits of Tolerance. ed. Pamela Dickey Young, Heather Shipley and Tracy Trothen. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2015, 45-66;“Informal Sex Education: Forces that Shape Youth Identities and Practices,” in Critical Pedagogy, Sexuality Education and Young People, eds. Andrew Yip and Fida Sanjakdar. New York: Peter Lang, 2018, 149-166.