The Centre 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 Centre staff and members.
Staff
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| Jan Ali Lecturer / Community and Research Analyst | - Contemporary Islamic revivalism; sociology of migration; identity; diaspora communities and transnationalism; social and religious movements; Islam and modernity.
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| Julia Day Howell Professor | - Religion, society and modernity; Indonesian studies; Sociology of Islam; Sufism; Asian New Religious Movements in Western societies; Spiritual practices and religious experiences.
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| Adam Possamai Associate Professor
Co-Director | - Sociology of religion; sociological theory; popular culture.
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| 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.
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| Bryan S. Turner Professor
Director | - Sociology of religion; sociological theory; human rights; the sociology of the body; religion in contemporary Asia; citizenship in a globalising world.
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Core Members
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| Alan Black Adjunct Professor | - Religion, spirituality, wellbeing, social capital, and community life.
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| Selda Dagistanli 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.
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Steven Drakeley 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.
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Mary Hawkins Associate Professor | |
| 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.
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| Milad Milani Adjunct Fellow | - Contemporary Sufism; Islam and the west; Social and Political Theory; History and Politics of Iran and the Persianate; Historical Sociology; Religion as Identity and Cultural Production.
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| 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.
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| Alphia Possamai-Inesedy Senior Lecturer | - Sociology of reproduction; sociology of religion
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| Cristina Rocha Senior Lecturer | - Globalisation; religion; transnationalism and cross-cultural negotiations with a particular interest in the cultural traffic between Japan, Brazil and Australia
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Religion and Society
