Professor James Cox
Adjunct Professor,
Dean's Unit, School of Social Sciences
Biography
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit, School of Social Sciences
Contact
| Email: | James.Cox@westernsydney.edu.au |
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Publications
Books
- Cox, J. (2022), 'A Phenomenology of Indigenous Religions: Theory and Practice', : Bloomsbury Academic 9781350250727.
- Cox, J. and Possamai, A. (2016), 'Religion and Non-Religion Among Australian Aboriginal Peoples', : Routledge 9781472443830.
- Cox, J. (2014), 'The Invention of God in Indigenous Societies', : Acumen 9781844657551.
- Kovacs, A. and Cox, J. (2014), 'New Trends and Recurring Issues in the Study of Religion', : L'Harmattan 9789632368504.
- Cox, J. (2013), 'Critical Reflections on Indigenous Religions', : Ashgate 9781409445005.
- Cox, J. (2010), 'An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion', : Continuum 9781441171597.
- Cox, J. (2007), 'From Primitive to Indigenous: The Academic Study of Indigenous Religions', : Asgate 9780754655695.
- Cox, J. (2006), 'A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion: Key Figures, Formative Influences and Subsequent Debates', : Continuum 9780826452900.
Chapters in Books
- Cox, J. (2023), 'Researching religious communities in the twenty-first century : the phenomenology of religion, local agency and the joint ownership of knowledge', Stepping Back and Looking Ahead: Twelve Years of Studying Religious Contact at the Kate Hamburger Kolleg Bochum, Brill 9789004516274.
- Cox, J. (2021), 'Indigenous religions of Oceania : Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands', Environment and Belief Systems, Routledge 9780367245177.
- Cox, J. (2020), 'African religions', The Sage Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, Sage Publications 9781473942202.
- Cox, J. (2020), 'Indigenous religions', The Sage Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, Sage Publications 9781473942202.
- Cox, J. (2020), 'Possession, spiritual', The Sage Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, Sage Publications 9781473942202.
- Cox, J. (2020), 'Phenomenology', The Sage Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, Sage Publications 9781473942202.
- Cox, J. (2020), 'Religious studies', The Sage Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, Sage Publications 9781473942202.
- Cox, J. (2020), 'Shamanism', The Sage Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, Sage Publications 9781473942202.
- Cox, J. (2017), 'Kinship and location : in defence of a narrow definition of indigenous religions', Religious Categories and the Construction of the Indigenous, Brill 9789004324411.
- Cox, J. (2017), 'The phenomenology of religion', Religion, Theory, Critique: Classic and Contemporary Approaches and Methodologies, Columbia University Press 9780231145428.
- Cox, J. (2016), 'Before the 'After' in 'After World Religions' : Wilfred Cantwell Smith on the meaning and end of religion ', After World Religions: Reconstructing Religious Studies, Routledge 9781138919129.
- Cox, J. (2016), 'The study of religion and non-religion in the emerging field of 'non-religion studies' : it's significance for interpreting Australian Aboriginal religions', Religion and Non-Religion Among Australian Aboriginal Peoples, Routledge 9781472443830.
- Cox, J. and Possamai, A. (2016), 'Religion, cultural hybridity and chains of memory', Religion and Non-Religion Among Australian Aboriginal Peoples, Routledge 9781472443830.
- Cox, J. and Possamai, A. (2016), 'Introduction : the Australian census, religious diversity and the religions 'nones' among Indigenous Australians', Religion and Non-Religion Among Australian Aboriginal Peoples, Routledge 9781472443830.
- Cox, J. (2015), 'Indigenous religions', Vocabulary for the Study of Religion, Brill 9789004290433.
- Cox, J. (2015), 'Insider/outsider', Vocabulary for the Study of Religion, Brill 9789004290433.
- Cox, J. (2014), 'Can Christianity take new forms? : Christianity in new cultural contexts', Controversies in Contemporary Religion: Education, Law, Politics, Society, and Spirituality. Volume 3 Specific Issues and Case Studies, Praeger 9781440803413.
- Cox, J. (2013), 'The transmission of an authoritative tradition : that without which religion is not religion', Alternative Voices: A Plurality Approach for Religious Studies: Essays in Honor of Ulrich Berner, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 9783525540176.
- Cox, J. (2013), 'Reflecting critically on indigenous religions', Critical Reflections on Indigenous Religions, Ashgate 9781409445005.
- Cox, J. (2010), 'La persistente influencia de las religiones indigenas en los acontecimientos sociopoliticos en Zimbabue', Religiosidades y Creencias Ccontemporaneas: Diversidades de lo Simbolico en el Mundo Actual, El Colegio Mexiquense 9786077761174.
- Cox, J. (2010), 'The invention of the Christian God in Africa : Geoffrey Parrinder and the study of God in African indigenous religions', Le Monotheisme: Diversite, Exclusivisme ou Dialogue? Association Europeenne Pour l'Etude des Religions (EASR), Congres de Paris, 11-14 Septembre 2002, Societe Ernest Renan 9782352700869.
- Cox, J. (2009), 'The globalization of localized African religions : the case of Kwame Bediako', World Christianity in Local Context: Essays in Memory of David A. Kerr, Continuum 9781847065100.
- Cox, J. (2009), 'Towards a socio-cultural, non-theological definition of religion', Theology and Religious Studies in Higher Education: Global Perspectives, Continuum 9781847063120.
- Cox, J. (2008), 'Religious studies sui generis : the role of phenomenology in the religion-theology debate', Theology and Religious Studies: An Exploration of Disciplinary Boundaries, Continuum 9780567032362.
Journal Articles
- Cox, J., Sutcliffe, S., Owen, S., Tafjord, B. and Schmidt, B. (2023), 'Book forum : a discussion of James L. Cox's a Phenomenology of Indigenous Religions', Indigenous Religious Traditions, vol 1, no 1 , pp 90 - 127.
- Cox, J. (2022), 'Delimiting religion : from religious experience to relational research', CR: The New Centennial Review, vol 22, no 2 , pp 41 - 77.
- Cox, J. (2021), 'What makes an experience 'religious'? : the necessity of defining religion', Journal for the Study of Religious Experience, vol 7, no 3 , pp 73 - 90.
- Cox, J. (2020), 'The collective ownership of knowledge : implications for the study of religion/s in local contexts', Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, vol 22 , pp 1 - 21.
- Cox, J. (2019), 'Religion as the transmission of an authoritative tradition : the significance of Timothy Fitzgerald's critique of religious studies for a socially embedded definition of religion', Implicit Religion, vol 22, no 3-4 , pp 331 - 348.
- Cox, J. (2015), 'Religious memory as a conveyor of authoritative tradition : the necessary and essential component in a definition of religion', Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, vol 2, no 1 , pp 5 - 23.
- Cox, J. and Possamai, A. (2014), 'Religion, "non-religion" and indigenous peoples on the 2011 Australian National Census', Diskus, vol 16, no 2 , pp 31 - 44.
- Cox, J. (2008), 'Community mastery of the spirits as an African form of shamanism', DISKUS: The Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, vol 9 .