Publications

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Edited Volumes

Journal Articles

Catto, Rebecca (2024) 'Creationism and climate skepticism: power and public understandings of science in America', Cultural Studies of Science Eduation. Online first: https://rdcu.be/dBLbg 

Catto, Rebecca, Rachael Shillitoe, Stephen Jones, Tom Kaden, and Fern Elsdon-Baker (2023). 'The Social Imaginary of Science and Nonreligion: Narrating the Connection in the Anglophone West', Secularism & Nonreligion: https://secularismandnonreligion.org/articles/10.5334/snr.163

Catto, Rebecca, James Riley, Fern Elsdon-Baker, Stephen Jones, and Carola Leicht (2022). 'Science, religion, and nonreligion: engaging subdisciplines to move further beyond mythbusting', Acta Sociologica. Online first: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00016993221116248?journalCode=asja

Jones, Stephen, Fern Elsdon-Baker, Rebecca Catto, and Tom Kaden (2020). ‘The Cultural Meanings of Science: Understanding Science Identification Using the Sociology of (Non)religion’, Public Understanding of Science 29(6): 579-596. https://journals-sagepub-com.proxy.library.kent.edu/doi/10.1177/0963662520923110 

Catto, Rebecca, Stephen Jones, Tom Kaden, and Fern Elsdon-Baker (2019). 'Diversification and internationalization in the sociological study of science and religion', Sociology Compass 13(8). https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.proxy.library.kent.edu/doi/full/10.1111/soc4.12721

Jones, Stephen, Rebecca Catto, Tom Kaden, and Fern Elsdon-Baker (2018). ‘That’s how Muslims are required to view the world’: Race, culture and belief in non-Muslims’ descriptions of Islam and science. The Sociological Review. Online first: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0038026118778174?journalCode=sora; http://newman.collections.crest.ac.uk/17226/1/NU0062.pdf

Kaden, Tom, Stephen Jones, Rebecca Catto, and Fern Elsdon-Baker (2017). Knowledge as Explanandum: Disentangling Lay and Professional Perspectives on Science and Religion. Studies in Religion. Online first: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0008429817741448

Catto, Rebecca, Grace Davie, and David Perfect (2015). State and Religion in Great Britain: Constitutional Foundations, Religious Minorities, the Law and Education. Insight Turkey 17(1): 79-96. http://file.insightturkey.com/Files/Pdf/02_catto_4.pdf

Eccles, Janet, and Rebecca Catto (2015). Espousing apostasy and feminism? Older and younger British female apostates compared. Secularism & Nonreligion: http://www.secularismandnonreligion.org/articles/10.5334/snr.ax/

Catto, Rebecca (2014). What can we say about today's British religious young person? Findings from the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme. Religion 44(1): 1-27: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/n6dpU3zIcBDEKt86D6YP/full

Catto, Rebecca and Janet Eccles (2013). (Dis)Believing and Belonging: Investigating the Narratives of Young British Atheists. Temenos 49(1): 37-63: https://journal.fi/temenos/article/view/8616

Catto, Rebecca (2013). Accurate Diagnosis? Exploring Convergence and Divergence in Non-Western Missionary and Sociological Master Narratives of Christian Decline in Western Europe. Transformation 30(1): 31-45: http://trn.sagepub.com/content/30/1/31.abstract 

Catto, Rebecca (2012). Researching Youth, Religion, and Society in Modern Britain. REsource: The Journal of National Association of Teachers of Religious Education 35(1): 4-6.

Book Chapters

Catto, Rebecca (2021). 'Glocal Power and the Sociology of Religion: How Robertson’s Theory of Globalization Helps Us to See beyond Secularization'. In Gobalization/Glocalization: Developments in Theory and Application, edited by P. Beyer. Leiden: Brill, pp. 143-162.

Catto, Rebecca (2020). ‘Science as a Secular Workplace: dynamics of reflection, contestation, and acceptance in the life sciences in Canada and the UK’. In Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum, edited by F. Elsdon-Baker and B. Lightman. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 159-171.

Catto, Rebecca (2017). Interfaith Dialogue and the Challenge of Indifference: Reflections from Fieldwork in the City of Peace and Reconciliation. In Religious Indifference: New Perspectives From Studies on Secularization and Nonreligion edited by J. Quack and C. Schuh, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 65-82.

Catto, Rebecca (2017). Islam in Europe and the Amman Message: Overview, Challenges and Potentials. In Muslim Identity in a Turbulent Age: Islamic Extremism and Western Islamophobia, edited by M. Hardy, F. Mughal and S. Markiewicz. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, pp. 64-97.

Eccles, Janet and Rebecca Catto (2017). The significance of sacred secular space in the formation of British atheist identities. In Materiality and the Study of Religion: The Stuff of the Sacred, edited by T. Hutchings and J. McKenzie. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 151-166.

Davie, Grace, Rebecca Catto, and Linda Woodhead (2016). Secularism and Secularization. In Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations, edited by L. Woodhead, C. Partridge, and H. Kawanami. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 551-570.

Catto, Rebecca (2015). Sociology of Religion in Great Britain: Interdisciplinarity and Gradual Diversification. In Sociologies of Religion: National Traditions, edited by A. Blasi and G. Giordan. Leiden: Brill, pp. 107-131.

Catto, Rebecca (2015). Section 3: Trends, Foreword. In Modernities, Memory and Mutations: Grace Davie and the Study of Religion, edited by A. Day and M. Lovheim. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 143-145.

Catto, Rebecca and David Perfect (2015). Religious Literacy, Equalities and Human Rights. In Religious Literacy in Policy and Practice, edited by A. Dinham and M. Francis. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 135-163.

Catto, Rebecca (2012). Bracketing out the Truth? Managing Bias in the Study of New Religious Movements. In: Religion and Knowledge: Sociological Perspectives, edited by M. Guest and E. Arweck. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 269-286. Download.

Catto, Rebecca (2012). Reverse Mission: From the Global South to Mainline Churches. In: Church Growth in Britain: 1980 to the Present, edited by D. Goodhew. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 91-105.

Catto, Rebecca (2012). The Church Mission Society and Reverse Mission: From Colonial Sending to Postcolonial Partnership and Reception. In: Religion on the Move! New Dynamics of Religious Expansion in a Globalizing World, edited by A. Adogame and S. Shankar. Leiden: Brill (International Studies in Religion and Society), pp. 81-97.

Martin, David with Rebecca Catto (2012). The Religious and the Secular. In: Religion and Change in Modern Britain, edited by L. Woodhead and R. Catto. London: Routledge, pp. 373-390.

Catto, Rebecca (2012). United Kingdom. In: Encyclopedia of Global Religion, edited by M. Jurgensmeyer and W. Clark Roof. Los Angeles: Sage, Volume 2, pp. 1321-1326.

Catto, Rebecca, and Linda Woodhead. (2011). Religion. In: Europe in a Global Context, edited by A. Krossa. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 103-115.

Sandberg, Russell, and Rebecca Catto. (2010). Law and Sociology: Toward a Greater Understanding of Religion. In: Law and Religion: New Horizons. Leuvens: Peeters, pp. 275-298.

Catto, Rebecca (2008). Has Mission Been Reversed? Reflections on Sociological Research with Non-Western Christian Missionaries in England. In: Migration and Mission: Papers Read at the Biennial Conference of the British and Irish Association for Mission Studies at Westminster College, Cambridge, 2nd-5th July 2007, edited by S. Spencer. Sheffield: Cliff College Publishing, pp. 109-118.

Catto, Rebecca, and Grace Davie. (2008). Ingiltere (text in Turkish). In: State and Religion in Europe, edited by A. Köse and T. Küçükcan. Istanbul: ISAM, pp. 151-174.

Policy Report

Woodhead, Linda with Rebecca Catto. (2009). EHRC Research Report 48 'Religion or Belief': Identifying Issues and Priorities. Manchester: Equality and Human Rights Commission. https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/publication-download/research-report-48-religion-or-belief-identifying-issues-and-priorities

Conference Proceedings

Catto, Rebecca. (2013). The Role of Religion in Integration - Youth Integration. In: Cultural Identity: The Role of Religion in Europe, edited by L. Kardos. Papers from 25 April 2013 conference, Szeged, organised by the University of Szeged, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, International and Regional Studies Institute and the Europe Direct Szeged office. pp. 18-24.

Book Reviews

Catto, Rebecca (2018). Book Review: Secular beats Spiritual: The Westernization of the Easternization of the West. By Steve Bruce’, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 57, no 4, 862-863. https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.proxy.library.kent.edu/doi/full/10.1111/jssr.12560

Catto, Rebecca (2018). Book Review: The Religious Lives of Older Laywomen: The Last Active Anglican Generation, by ABBY DAY. Sociology of Religion 79(1): 139-140. https://academic.oup.com/socrel/article-abstract/79/1/139/4821755

Catto, Rebecca (2016). Book Review: James D. G. Dunn (ed.), Fundamentalisms: Threats and Ideologies in the Modern World (London, New York: I. B. Tauris, 2016). Theology 119(5): 368-369.

Catto, Rebecca (2015). Book Review: Nicola Madge, Peter J Hemming and Kevin Stenson with Nick Allum, Melania Calestani, Anthony Goodman, Katherine King, Sarah Kingston and Colin Webster, Youth on Religion: The Development, Negotiation and Impact of Faith and Non-Faith Identity. Sociology (online 19 May). http://soc.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/05/18/0038038515581765.extract 

Catto, Rebecca (2014). Invited review as part of symposium on Rejoicing: Or the Torments of Religious Speech by Bruno Latour. Sociology. 48(2): 403-404. http://soc.sagepub.com/content/48/2/403

Catto, Rebecca (2013). Book review of Christianity Today by G.D. Chryssides. Modern Believing 54(1): 76-77.

Catto, Rebecca (2012). Book review of The Sacred in the Modern World: A Cultural Sociological Approach by G. Lynch. Theology 115(6): 461-462.

Catto, Rebecca (2011). Book review of Sociology of Religion for Generations X and Y by A. Possamai. Fieldwork in Religion 6(1): 89-90.

Catto, Rebecca (2010). Book review of Coming Out of the 'Iron Cage': The Indigenists of the Society of the Divine Word in Paraguay, 1910-2000, by D. Piwowarczyk. Journal of Contemporary Religion 25(2): 329-330.

Catto, Rebecca (2010). Book review of Faith in the Public Realm: Controversies, Policies, and Practices, by A. Dinham, R. Furbey, and V. Lowndes (eds.). Sociology 44(6): 1213-1215.

Catto, Rebecca (2008). Book review of Religion in an Expanding Europe by T. Byrnes and P. Katzenstein (eds.). Journal of International Migration and Integration 9(3): 339-340.