This dissertation is the clearest long-form statement of the Montreal Pagan research program. It studies ritual performance, queer negotiation, and power relations across alternative spiritual practices, with sustained attention to gender and sexual identity dynamics inside community life.
The degree-granting institution is UQAM, and the dissertation is openly available through the Archipel repository. On the site, it functions as a major anchor for the earlier scholarship because several later articles and chapters can be read as more focused slices of this broader research arc.
Its presence in the archive also helps clarify continuity: the later media and governance writing extends a long-standing concern with how legitimacy, identity, and authority are lived through ritualized systems.