PinnedChange the Storyteller, Change the Story?There’s an idea lurking around that it doesn’t (or shouldn’t) matter who tells your stories. In journalism, the idea prevails that the form…Dec 7, 2023Dec 7, 2023
PinnedSocial inclusion and belonging of minority identities in Christian and Muslim spacesPrevious research has found that attending belief system groups can be beneficial for mental health (Forrester-Jones et al 2018) and can…Sep 29, 20221Sep 29, 20221
PinnedThe messier the better: exploring the value of crisisPrior to the Covid-19 pandemic, my academic career was already in a crisis. I was in the last few months of a fixed-term contract and was…Sep 6, 2022Sep 6, 2022
PinnedNavigating a portfolio career amid multiple crisesA lot can be said about labelling something a “crisis”. A crisis can be personal — a breakup, bereavement or terrible illness, for example…Jul 21, 2022Jul 21, 2022
PinnedSociology of religion and critical posthumanities: blurring the boundaries of and in knowledge…After presenting my paper on the relationship between the sociology of religion and philosophical posthumanism at the British Sociological…Feb 8, 2022Feb 8, 2022
Faith-inspired, ethically driven Muslim women during the Covid-19 pandemicIn July 2022 I presented a short paper to the annual British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion study group (Socrel) conference…Dec 14, 2022Dec 14, 2022
Curating Spaces of Hope: co-producing shared values and practices in uncertain timesThe post-Elizabethan era is precipitating an existential shift unlike anything else, certainly since World War Two — maybe in UK history…Oct 28, 2022Oct 28, 2022
Religion and the world of work: the organisational quest for coherenceQuakers have been contemplating how far to cede their religious beliefs to bureaucratic management since the middle of the seventeenth…Jan 11, 2022Jan 11, 2022
The Yoga Field as a training camp: a practice-based understanding of ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality’…At the British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion conference this year, the theme of which was Beyond Binaries in the Sociology…Dec 15, 2021Dec 15, 2021
Forget Worldviews: Manifesto for a Postmodern Religious StudiesThe point of departure for this post is that the much-touted Worldviews paradigm (REC 2018) — in much the same fashion as the World…Dec 6, 2021Dec 6, 2021