Sharday Mosurinjohn, Queen's University

Research

Read how they describe their research on their Queen's University profile.

Latest papers

Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience.
Psychedelic medicine (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2026 · first author
Psychedelic-induced mystical experiences: An interdisciplinary discussion and critique.
Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023 · first author

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Overload Aesthetics: Twenty-First Century Transformations in the Relationship of Boredom to Religion and Spirituality
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$21,165
Practicing gender, religion, and citizenship an ethnographic inquiry into how gender discourse configures the politics of civic belonging for faith-based communities
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$105,000

All 2 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience.

Mosurinjohn S, Ascough R

Psychedelic medicine (New Rochelle, N.Y.)2026First author

DOI: 10.1177/28314425251361835 PMID: 42130781

02

Psychedelic-induced mystical experiences: An interdisciplinary discussion and critique.

Mosurinjohn S, Roseman L, Girn M

Frontiers in psychiatry2023First author

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1077311 PMID: 37181886

Overload Aesthetics: Twenty-First Century Transformations in the Relationship of Boredom to Religion and Spirituality

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Mosurinjohn, Sharday

Keywords: (1) Boredom; (2) Information Society; (3) Affect; (4) Aesthetics; (5) Spiritual Crisis; (6) Religious Experience; (7) Digital Information and Communications Technology; (8) Conceptual Writing; (9) The Everyday; (10) Late Modernity

$21,165

Practicing gender, religion, and citizenship an ethnographic inquiry into how gender discourse configures the politics of civic belonging for faith-based communities

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Mosurinjohn, Sharday C.

Keywords: gender; religion; civic belonging; Canadian multiculturalism; neo-liberal cultural logic; ethnography; discourse analysis; emancipatory politics

$105,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Richard Ascough

School of Religion

1 shared papers, latest 2026

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Mosurinjohn, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]