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Social inclusion and belonging of minority identities in Christian and Muslim spaces

Previous research has found that attending belief system groups can be beneficial for mental health (Forrester-Jones et al 2018) and can provide social support (Nguyen et al 2013). …

LGBTQ

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Social inclusion and belonging of minority identities in Christian and Muslim spaces
Social inclusion and belonging of minority identities in Christian and Muslim spaces
LGBTQ

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The messier the better: exploring the value of crisis

Prior 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 deeply haunted by a mindset of ‘publish or perish’. The pressure of job-seeking somehow made me feel increasingly desperate, guilty and upset for not…

Academia

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The messier the better: exploring the value of crisis
The messier the better: exploring the value of crisis
Academia

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Navigating a portfolio career amid multiple crises

A lot can be said about labelling something a “crisis”. A crisis can be personal — a breakup, bereavement or terrible illness, for example — or it can describe something more structural or systemic, such as the crisis of climate change or the global Covid pandemic. …

Career Development

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Navigating a portfolio career amid multiple crises
Navigating a portfolio career amid multiple crises
Career Development

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Sociology of religion and critical posthumanities: blurring the boundaries of and in knowledge production

After presenting my paper on the relationship between the sociology of religion and philosophical posthumanism at the British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion study group conference last year, I received stimulating feedback, especially on the final point I stressed — that it is important to adopt a critical and reflexive…

Religion

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Sociology of religion and critical posthumanities: blurring the boundaries of and in knowledge…
Sociology of religion and critical posthumanities: blurring the boundaries of and in knowledge…
Religion

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Dec 14, 2022

Faith-inspired, ethically driven Muslim women during the Covid-19 pandemic

In July 2022 I presented a short paper to the annual British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion study group (Socrel) conference on faith-inspired, ethically driven Muslim women during the Covid-19 pandemic. …

Muslim

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Faith-inspired, ethically driven Muslim women during the Covid-19 pandemic
Faith-inspired, ethically driven Muslim women during the Covid-19 pandemic
Muslim

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Oct 28, 2022

Curating Spaces of Hope: co-producing shared values and practices in uncertain times

The post-Elizabethan era is precipitating an existential shift unlike anything else, certainly since World War Two — maybe in UK history. The pandemic has left us more fragile, while the cost-of-living crisis bites, catalysed by Brexit. The climate crisis continues, exemplified by catastrophic floods in Pakistan and temperatures in the…

Ethics

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Curating Spaces of Hope: co-producing shared values and practices in uncertain times
Curating Spaces of Hope: co-producing shared values and practices in uncertain times
Ethics

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Jan 11, 2022

Religion and the world of work: the organisational quest for coherence

Quakers have been contemplating how far to cede their religious beliefs to bureaucratic management since the middle of the seventeenth century. Originally Christian recusants, they reproved the established English church for its perceived apostasy and its claims to institutionally mediate between the individual and the divine. …

Quaker

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Religion and the world of work: the organisational quest for coherence
Religion and the world of work: the organisational quest for coherence
Quaker

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Dec 15, 2021

The Yoga Field as a training camp: a practice-based understanding of ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality’ in modern forms of yoga

At the British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion conference this year, the theme of which was Beyond Binaries in the Sociology of Religion, I presented an extract from my research on the pedagogies of modern forms of yoga, arguing for a practice-based approach to the study of ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality’. …

Yoga

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The Yoga Field as a training camp: a practice-based understanding of ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality’…
The Yoga Field as a training camp: a practice-based understanding of ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality’…
Yoga

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Dec 6, 2021

Forget Worldviews: Manifesto for a Postmodern Religious Studies

The point of departure for this post is that the much-touted Worldviews paradigm (REC 2018) — in much the same fashion as the World Religion Paradigm — conceives of religions as substances and as containers to which can then be ascribed traits and qualities, into which can be poured particular…

Deleuze

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Forget Worldviews: Manifesto for a Postmodern Religious Studies
Forget Worldviews: Manifesto for a Postmodern Religious Studies
Deleuze

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Nov 24, 2021

Zoom-sphere and the re-working of social space: a conceptualisation

Here, I’d like to do something thinking about how we get beyond binaries that have framed our experience of social space and time, with particular reference to the Zoom-sphere that became such a prominent feature of spatial life in the global pandemic. Zoom-sphere has accentuated the collapse of space and…

Zoom

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Zoom-sphere and the re-working of social space: a conceptualisation
Zoom-sphere and the re-working of social space: a conceptualisation
Zoom

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Socrel (British Sociological Association)

Socrel (British Sociological Association)

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The socoiology of religion study group at the British Sociological Association. https://www.britsoc.co.uk/groups/study-groups/sociology-of-religion-study-group/

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