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
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![]() | Cristina Rocha |
![]() | 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 Lecturer in Sociology Experiences of Muslim minorities in the West and their interaction with issues of racism and anti-racism, Islamophobia, multiculturalism and citizenship. |
![]() | Selda Dagistanli |
![]() | Steven Drakeley |
![]() | Kevin Dunn |
![]() | Mary Hawkins Religious and ethnic diversity in Southeast Asia; cultural traditions of Islam in Indonesia, specifically in Kalimantan; nations, ethnic groups and globalisation. |
![]() | Anthony Jinks |
![]() | Milad Milani |
![]() | Dr Alan Nixon |
![]() | Helena Onnudottir |
![]() | Kathleen Openshaw Pentecostalisms from the Global South, local lived migrant religious expressions of globalised Pentecostalisms and material religion |
![]() | Adam Possamai Professor / Deputy Dean (Research and International) Sociology of religion; sociological theory; popular culture. |
![]() | Alphia Possamai-Inesedy |
![]() | Geir Presterudstuen |
![]() | Professor Andrew McWilliam Dr Andrew McWilliam is Professor of Anthropology and a specialist in the study of Insular Southeast Asia. He was worked extensively in Indonesia and East Timor, and maintains active applied research interests in Northern Australia with a focus on native title and indigenous cultural heritage. He is currently editor of The Australian Journal of Anthropology. |
![]() | Dr Alex Norman 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 Religion, spirituality, wellbeing, social capital, and community life. |
![]() | Professor James Cox Phenomenology of Religion; Theory and Method in the Study of Indigenous Religions; Area specialisations in Indigenous Cultures in Southern Africa, Alaska and Central Australia. |
![]() | Dr Yaghoob Foroutan Muslim Demography, Religious Identity, Religion and Gender |
![]() | Professor Bagher Ghobary Bonab Prof. Bagher Ghobary Bonab is a visiting scholar from University of Tehran, and a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993. His research interests include Special Education, Methods of Instruction for Individuals with Disabilities, Spiritual Coping Strategies for Parents of Exceptional Children, Spiritual Intelligence, and Spiritual Development of Exceptional Children. He is also interested in Spirituality of Normal Individuals, especially youths and adolescents, Spiritual Skill Development, qualitative, quantitative, mixed method research, and single subject studies. He has a keen interest in assessment and evaluation techniques. |
![]() | Julia Day Howell Religion, society and modernity; Indonesian studies; Sociology of Islam; Sufism; Asian New Religious Movements in Western societies; Spiritual practices and religious experiences. |
![]() | Mark Hutchinson |
![]() | Sherene Idriss Youth subcultures; intersections between religion, gender and identity practices. |
Dr Pedram Khosronejad (opens in a new window) Research and teaching has been interdisciplinary in scope, crosscutting sociocultural anthropology, visual anthropology and Shiite Islam. Interests include questions of war, martyrdom, and memory; sanctity, sacred topography, and pilgrimage; sacred art, material religion, and visual piety; gender, sexuality, and race. In particular, explore the ways in which religion, rituals and ceremonies, and material culture are bound up in as well as influenced and changed by wider political, social, and cultural trends. | |
![]() | Stephane Lathion (opens in a new window) 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 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. |