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Professor Linda Woodhead

Linda Woodhead

Professor

Department: Religious Studies

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Gender and Women's Studies

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Current Teaching

Because of my secondment to the Religion and Society Programme, I will not be involved in undergraduate teaching until 2013.

Research Interests

I am a sociologist of religion who is interested in religion in contemporary western societies. My research to date has focused on Christianity and alternative spiritualities in Britain and the USA. Much of my work deals with the themes of:

For more information see my research page.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

I will have limited availability for PhD supervision until 2013, but am happy to consider proposals in the area of Sociology of Religion, Religion in Modernity, Spirituality, Christianity, Religion and Gender, Religion and Emotions, Religious change. PhDs supervised to date.

Publications

BOOKS:

God and Human Dignity (co-edited with Kendall Soulen). Grand Rapids, Michigan, Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans, 2006.

The Spiritual Revolution. Why Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality (with Paul Heelas). Oxford, UK and Malden, USA: Blackwell, 2005.

An Introduction to Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Christianity: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Congregational Studies in the UK (co-edited with Mathew Guest and Karin Tusting). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

Predicting Religion: Christian, Secular and Alternative Futures (co-edited with Grace Davie and Paul Heelas). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.

Peter Berger and the Study of Religion (ed.) London: Routledge, 2002.

Religions in the Modern World. Traditions and Transformations (ed.) London: Routledge, 2002.

Reinventing Christianity: Nineteenth Century Contexts (ed.) Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.

Religion in Modern Times (co-edited with Paul Heelas). Oxford, UK and Malden, USA: Blackwell, 200o.

Diana. The Making of a Media Icon (co-edited with Jeffrey Richards and Scott Wilson) London: I.B.Tauris, 1999.

More information.

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Religion and Society Programme

I am Programme Director of the Religion and Society Research Programme, which runs until 2013. I continue to be based at Lancaster University.

This £12.3 million Programme is funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) and the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council). It commissions research projects on various themes related to religion and society.

ePrints Publications Repository

Linda Woodhead has 33 publication records in the Lancaster University ePrints repository. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title.

Woodhead, Linda (2007) Gender Differences in Religious Practice and Significance. In: The Sage Handbook of the Sociology of Religion. Sage, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, pp. 550-570.

http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/796/1/LindaOle-for_PalFINAL.rtf Riis, Ole and Woodhead, Linda (2007) Religion and Emotion. In: Religion in Late Modernity. Tapir Academic Press, Trondheim, pp. 153-169.

Woodhead, Linda (2007) Sex and Secularisation. In: Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 230-244.

Woodhead, Linda (2007) Why So Many Women in Holistic Spirituality? In: The Sociology of Spirituality. Ahsgate, Aldershot, pp. 115-125.

Woodhead, Linda J. P. and Soulen, Kendall (2006) Apophatic anthropology. In: God and human dignity. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich., pp. 245-246. ISBN 9780802833952 (pbk.) 0802833950 (pbk.)

Woodhead, Linda J. P. (2005) Gender secularisation theory. Kvinder, Kon og Forskning (Women, Gender & Research), 1 (1-2). pp. 24-35.

Heelas, Paul L. and Woodhead, Linda J. P. (2005) Kendal, Cumbria : a spiritual laboratory. CeNtreWoRds, 4 . pp. 17-26. ISSN 1478-4602

Woodhead, Linda J. P. (2005) Sociological approaches to studying the global and local context of congregations. In: Studying local churches : a handbook. SCM, London, pp. 54-65. ISBN 0334029600

Heelas, Paul and Woodhead, Linda and Seel, B. and Tusting, Karin and Szerszynski, B. (2005) The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality. Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 1405119586

Woodhead, Linda (2005) Why do Religious and Spiritual Movements Grow? In: Big Questions in History. Jonathan Cape, London, pp. 167-174.