The son of a military man, he experienced the nomadic life of Canadian military families. Born in eastern Canada, in Nova Scotia where he lived until the age of seven, then almost a year in California, five years on Vancouver Island (province of British Columbia), three years in Hull (province of Quebec), and two years in Ste-Marie de Beauce (province of Quebec). Since 1977, he has lived in the Quebec City area.

Paul Gosselin is an independent researcher in social anthropology, specializing in the study of religions, ideologies and belief systems. His research has touched as much on the definition of religion as a cultural phenomenon*, as on the origins debate and the dominant worldview in the West, postmodernism. Since 2002 he has devoted himself to writing, publishing a French book on culture and the arts (Hors du ghetto), followed by the Flight from the Absolute series (originally written in French, but translated into English), focusing on the postmodern belief system, its influence in the West and analysing the ideological role played by the theory of evolution.

In October 2007, Gosselin presented a brief to the Bouchard-Taylor Commission concerning the imposition of the Ethics and Religious Culture course on the entire school population of Quebec (primary and secondary schools, public and private). A Quebec Evangelical Christian, he is the founder of the Samizdat publishing house and the webmaster of the evangelical site by the same name. A lifelong reader, Gosselin is known for making bread, his own pizzas and bœuf braisé (accompanied by fiddleheads, a variety of edible fern that the First Nations introduced to Quebecers)... Many years ago, he experienced life on a farm, harvesting hay in the summer and logging in the woods in the winter, and practiced beekeeping.

Some of Gosselin's book reviews.

Interviews and conferences with Paul Gosselin.

Paul Gosselin's SubStack

Gosselin, Paul, 1957-	Hors du ghetto: un regard évangélique sur la culture et les arts 383 pages avec 23 illustrations, notes, bibliographie et index des sujets English info version Ebook de Hors du ghetto	ISBN: 2-9807774-9-8 33.95$
Gosselin, Paul, 1957-	Fuite de l'Absolu: Observations cyniques sur l'Occident postmoderne. Volume I. 492 pages avec avant-propos, notes, bibliographie et index des sujets	ISBN: 978-2-9807774-1-7 32.95$
Gosselin, Paul, 1957-	Fuite de l'Absolu: Observations cyniques sur l'Occident postmoderne. Volume II 574 pages avec avant-propos, notes, bibliographie et index des sujets	ISBN: 978-2-9807774-2-4 40$
Gosselin, Paul, 1957-	Flight From the Absolute: Cynical Observations on the Postmodern West. Volume I . ix - 412 pages with Foreword, Index, Bibliography and Notes	ISBN: 978-2-9807774-3-1 33.99$
Gosselin, Paul, 1957-	Flight From the Absolute: Cynical Observations on the Postmodern West. Volume II. xiii - 566 pages with Foreword, Index, Bibliography and Notes	ISBN: 978-2-9807774-4-8 40.00$

* His master's thesis bore on the definition of religion in Social Anthropology