Canadian

von Heyking, John

Professor of Political Science
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

john.vonheyking@uleth.ca
+1 403-329-2573
Webpage: http://directory.uleth.ca/users/john.vonheyking

John von Heyking teaches political philosophy and religion and politics. He is author of numerous books and articles on religion and politics, including Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World (2001), the 2010 Hill Lecture, "The Persistence of Civil Religion in Modern Canada," "Civil Religion and Associational Life under Canada's 'Ephemeral Monster: Canada's Multi-Headed Constitution," "Mysticism in Contemporary Islamic Political Thought: Orhan Pamuk and Abdolkarim Soroush" (recently translated into Turkish), and "The Harmonization of Heaven and Earth?: Religion, Politics, And Law in Canada." He is also coeditor of several edited volumes, including Friendship and Politics: Essays in Political Thought, Civil Religion in Political Thought: Its Perennial Questions and Enduring Relevance in North America, Teaching in an Age of Ideology, The Primacy of Persons in Politics: Empiricism and Political Philosophy, and Hunting and Weaving, Empiricism and Political Philosophy. He is at work on a series of books on the political significance of friendship and its relevance for the modern age. The first book to be published will be Lincoln and Churchill on the Practice of Friendship in Politics.