Research

• About our Research
• Areas of Research
• Staff Research Interests
• Research Centres and Institutes
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• Publications
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About Our Research

The Department has a strong, distinctive and exciting research culture. Our interdisciplinary research brings together scholars who work within and across the subject areas of Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Politics and International Relations. It is focused in the following four areas:

• Religion and Society:with subfields in Religious change in modern Britain; Religion, popular culture and media; Gender and religion; Religious dynamics in India, Japan, Latin America, the Middle East, and South East Asia; New religious movements


• Politics and Religion: with subfields in Violent conflicts and their ideological and religious dimensions; Security and peace-building; Democracy, capacity-building and religion; Religion and public life; Diaspora, migration and borders


• Conceptual and Theoretical Issues: with subfields in Mind, self and subjectivity; Literature, genre and textual interpretation; Modernity and post-modernity; Space and place


• Contemporary Ethical Debates: with subfields in Equalities issues including gender, economic justice, religious minorities and diversity; Issues in bioethics including new reproductive and genetic technologies, consent, health policy, well-being; Genocide

View staff associated with these areas.

In all four areas colleagues' research is informed by their disciplinary backgrounds. Learn about these.

The Department's academic community includes the following structures and groups:

• Religion and Society AHRC/ESRC Programme
• Richardson Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
• Security Futures
• Centre for Cultural Political Economy
• Centre for Bioethics and Medical Law

Learn more about these groupings.

Interdisciplinary research areas

Religion, Security and Conflict

Germond, Kasbarian, Knott, Lacy, Mabon, Misra, Mukherjee, Reader

Health and Well-being

Clark, Cooper, Geyer, Kawanami, Levitt, Manson, Ram-Prasad, Wilkinson, Williams

Secularisation, Modernisation and the Relations between Religion and Modernity

Dawson, Hyman, Jeremiah, Knott, Misra, Naguib, Nordin, Partridge, Ram-Prasad, Stone, Woodhead

Genre in Philosophical and Religious Texts

Black, Clark, Macleod, Stone

Gender and Other Equalities Issues

Cooper, Hearn, Jeremiah, Kawanami, Ram-Prasad, Stone, Sum, Woodhead

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