Kenneth McKendrick

My name is Kenneth McKendrick, and my pronouns are he, him, they, them.

Let me jump right in.

So this is embarrassing.

I had to look the word up because I didn't know what the word was.

And the definition that I found, that you may have found as well, was it's sort of a theological discussion about evil.

And a theology is basically a faith-based position or a belief-based position.

It tends to be monotheistic.

It's very often associated with Christianity.

And that's not what I do.

I'm interested in human beings.

And what I study is people that talk about demons and who talk about gods and goddesses and deities, but supernatural representation.

So I'm super interested in people that talk about comic books.

And I'm super interested in games like Dungeons and Dragons.

And anytime you find like a supernatural representation, like a zombie or vampires or anything like that, I'm in, right?

I find that fascinating because for me, the study of religion is about studying how something ordinary gets turned into the extraordinary.

Yeah, 2002 was the first time I taught at the University of Manitoba, but I was teaching at the University of Toronto in 1999 while I was still a graduate student.

So I've been thinking about the topic for quite a while.

It never gets old, never gets tired.

I'm more of an expert on, I guess, people talking about evil.

OK, so if you sort of look at a lot of the literature and if you just type in evil to a Google search or to a book search or a public library search would be even better than that.