Theurgy, Prayer, Participation, and Divinization in Dionysius the Areopagite

Rebecca Coughlin holds an honours degree in religious studies from McGill University and recently completed an MA in Classics at Dalhousie University. In 2006 she presented a paper entitled “Theosis: The Role of Theoria and Theurgia in the Dionysian corpus” at the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies conference in Quebec City and attended a colloquium in Montréal, entitled “Late Antique Crossroads in the Levant: Space, Rituals, Texts and Daily life,” where she presented a paper on the construction of space and ritual activity in the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius. She currently lives in Halifax and can be reached at rebecca.coughlin@dal.ca.