Researchers

The group brings together academics from the Social Sciences and Humanities who have a shared interest in the empirical study of contemporary religious and spiritual communities.

Follow the links below for information on individual staff and members.

Members

	Cristina Rocha Professor, Director Pentecostal Charismatic Christianities, healing, spirituality, the New Age, Buddhism in the West, and anthropology of religion, globalisation, transnationalism and migration, with a particular interest in the cultural traffic between Japan, Brazil and Australia.
	Jan Ali HCA-based member Senior Lecturer / Community and Research Analyst Contemporary Islamic revivalism; sociology of migration; identity; diaspora communities and transnationalism; social and religious movements; Islam and modernity.
	Jennifer Cheng Career Development Fellow Experiences of Muslim minorities in the West and their interaction with issues of racism and anti-racism, Islamophobia, multiculturalism and citizenship.
	Selda Dagistanli Senior Lecturer Law and order politics and its effects on sentencing and punishment; ethnicity and the law through cultural defence; representations of (sexually) deviant Muslim masculinities; boundaries of inclusion/exclusion and actor networks and agendas in moral panics; populist victims' rights politics.
	Steven Drakeley HCA-based member Senior Lecturer Social and political forces based on Islam in the political history of Indonesia since independence; Islam in Southeast Asia; Indonesian history and historiography; Malaysian history.
	Kevin Dunn Professor / Dean SSAP Human Geography; Urban Studies; Race and Ethnic Studies.
	Mary Hawkins Associate Professor Religious and ethnic diversity in Southeast Asia; cultural traditions of Islam in Indonesia, specifically in Kalimantan; nations, ethnic groups and globalisation.
	Anthony Jinks Senior Lecturer Psychology of paranormal experience; Psychology of Popular Religion; Research methods and statistics.
	Milad Milani Senior Lecturer The study of religion, Islam, and Sufism.
	Dr Alan Nixon Postdoc Researcher in Sociology of Religion Sociology of Nonreligion, Irreligion and Secular Studies; Digital Sociology ; Sociology of Religion
	Helena Onnudottir Lecturer Aboriginal Australia (esp. South-East Australia); Indigenous Peoples (culture, history and rights-based matters); Indigenous Peoples and Religious Changes; Gender and Sexuality/ies.
	Adam Possamai Professor Sociology of religion; sociological theory; popular culture.
	Alphia Possamai-Inesedy Associate Professor Sociology of reproduction; sociology of religion
	Geir Presterudstuen Lecturer in Anthropology Anthropology of Religious and Ritual Practice; Fiji; Pacific Island Communities; Ethnography; Gender and Sexualities; Post-Colonial Theory; Economic Anthropology; Monster anthropology.
	Oishee Alam Research Fellow Islamophobia, whiteness; racialisation (particularly of religious communities); secularism; religious conversion to Islam; Muslims in the West; bystander anti-racism; racism and racial bullying in schools..
	Professor Andrew McWilliam Professor of Anthropology Timor ethnography, minorities and governance in Indonesia and East Timor, the anthropology of religion and society in eastern Indonesia, spirit ecologies and inter-generational well -being, Australian Aboriginal customary land interests and native title.
	Dr Alex Norman Senior Lecturer Tourism Studies, Sociology of Religion, Contemporary Spirituality, Anthropology of Pilgrimage, Photography Theory, New Religious Movements, Women Studies in Religion, History of Religion and Meditation.

Adjunct Members

	Alan Black Adjunct Professor Religion, spirituality, wellbeing, social capital, and community life.
	Professor James Cox Honorary Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh University (School of Divinity) Phenomenology of Religion; Theory and Method in the Study of Indigenous Religions; Area specialisations in Indigenous Cultures in Southern Africa, Alaska and Central Australia.
	Julia Day Howell Adjunct Professor Religion, society and modernity; Indonesian studies; Sociology of Islam; Sufism; Asian New Religious Movements in Western societies; Spiritual practices and religious experiences.
	Mark Hutchinson Professional Historian History of higher education; globalisation of Pentecostal and Charismatic movements; history of global Evangelicalism; Italian migration history; studies in comparative evangelicalism.
	Sherene Idriss Adjunct Researcher Youth subcultures; intersections between religion, gender and identity practices.
	Stephane Lathion (opens in a new window) Visiting Fellow Muslims in Europe (identity, citizenship, deradicalisation, "imam" training course); comparative Study of Religions; religious teaching in Public Schools (what, who, how and within which framework).
	Arskal Salim Senior Research Lecturer Legal anthropology; Islamic legal theory; law and politics in Indonesian society; comparative constitutional law in Muslim countries; legal practices in Muslim communities.
	Dr Firdaus Wajdi Adjunct Researcher Religion and Globalization, Indonesian Muslims in Australia, Transnational Religious Movement, Sufism in Indonesian Context, Islam in Indonesia, and Religion and Local Cultures.
	Dr Yaghoob Foroutan Associate Professor Muslim Demography, Religious Identity, Religion and Gender

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Religion and Society Research Cluster

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