For our second gathering of 2026, Beyond The Veil Doula Collective invites you to a book reading and author talk with Corinne Dempsey. She will be sharing about her latest book “A View From Life’s Edge: Discovering What Really Matters With Older Women Across The Globe”.

Corinne Dempsey is professor and chair of Religious Studies at Nazareth University in Rochester, NY. She teaches on world religions, Hindu traditions, comparative mysticism, and war and peace in world religions. Her ethnographic research and writing has been with Christians in South India, Hindus in the US, spirit workers in northern Iceland, and most recently with women over 80 in California, Iceland, South India, and the Sisters of St. Joseph in Rochester. If asked, she would tell you that her most rewarding project so far has been her most recent one, in the company of older women.