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…

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. …

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…

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. …

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…

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. …

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’. …

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…

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…