Barrie Wilson

Barrie A. Wilson is a Canadian Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Humanities and Religious Studies, York University, Toronto, where he has taught since 1974. An historian of religion, he specializes in movements in early Christianity. Throughout the 1990s he was Chair of Religious Studies at Atkinson College, York University. From 1969 to 1974 he taught Ancient Philosophy and Logic at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. His book How Jesus Became Christian was longtlisted for the Cundill Prize and won the Tanenbaum Prize for History at the Canadian Jewish Book Awards.