Olivier Bauer

Olivier Bauer was born in 1964 in Neuchâtel (Switzerland). Married, with three children, he spent his professional life in Practical Theology on 3 continents, between Protestant Churches and Faculties of Theology. He studied Theology in Neuchâtel, Montpellier and Lausanne where he got his PhD in 2000. He worked for Protestant Churches in France and Switzerland, as a chaplain in a Protestant High school and College in Tahiti (1993-1999) and as the pastor of the Frenchspeaking Protestant Church of Washington, DC (2003-2006). He taught theology at the Universities of Lausanne and Neuchâtel and since 2005, he is associate professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Montreal. His main academic interests include: the transmission of faith to the six senses; the cultural dimension of Christianity not only abroad but also in Western countries; food and religion.

Prof Bauer wrote eight books: Hockey as a Religion: The Montreal Canadiens (CommonGround, 2011); L’hostie: une passion québécoise (Liber, 2011); Une théologie du Canadien de Montréal (Bayard, 2011); Le protestantisme et ses cultes désertés (Labor et Fides, 2008); Les rites protestants en Polynésie française (L’Harmattan, 2003); Le protestantisme à table (Labor et Fides, 2000); Petit lexique du parler local (Aux vents des îles, 1999); Le jeu de Dieu et de Jonas (Éditions du Moulin, 1996). He co-edited three collective books: with Jean-Marc Barreau, La religion du Canadien de Montréal (Fides, 2009); with Prof Félix Moser, Les Églises au risque de la visibilité (IRP, 2002); with Prof Henry Mottu, Le culte protestant (IRP, 2001).

Olivier Bauer, PhD

Associate Professor

Faculty of Theology and the Sciences of Religion

University of Montreal

PO Box 6128 Downtown Station

Montreal, Québec) H3C 3J7

Canada

Phone: +1 514 343-6861

olivier.bauer@umontreal.ca