Publications

Selected publications by RASSC Lab members

Books

• Rees, A., Kohlt, F.E., McLeish, T., Sleigh, C. and Wilkinson, D. (2026) Science, Religion, and the Human Future: Conflict, Collusion, and Consequences. Oxford University Press.

• Strhan, A. and Shillitoe, R. (2025) Growing Up Godless: Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England. Princeton University Press.

• Mokoko Gampiot, A. (2024) Scripturalizing Jewishness through Blackness: Black Jews in France. Lexington.

• Koca, M. (2023) Tracing Cultural Change in Turkey’s Experience of Democratization: Unexpected Dialogues on Intolerance. Routledge.

• Lightman, B., and Qidwai, S. (2023) Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions: National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800–1920 (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century). University of Pittsburgh Press.

• Garbin, D., Millington, G. and Coleman, S. (eds) (2022) Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa. Bloomsbury.

• Henig, D., Strhan, A. and Robbins, J. (eds) (2022) Where is the Good in the World? Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy. Berghahn.

Journal articles

• Hemming, P. J., Strhan, A., Malone, J., & Neal, S. (2025). Schooling citizenship and character in a therapeutic society. The Sociological Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261251388719

• Strhan, A., Malone, J., Hemming, P. and Neal, S. (2025) Affective Engagements with Religion and Citizenship in English Primary Schools. British Journal of Sociology of Education  https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2025.2462954 

• Onay, Ö., & Millington, G. (2025). Negotiations with whiteness in British Turkish Muslims’ encounters with Islamophobia. Ethnic and Racial Studies 48(1): 26-47.

• Koca, M. (2024) Networked social movements and radicalisation: yellow vests’ cross-ideological horizon for underrepresented groups. Journal of Contemporary European Studies 32(3): 643–657.

• Millington, G., Garbin, D., & Coleman, S. (2024) Neo-Pentecostal Infrastructures in Lagos, Nigeria: Ontology, Politics, Poetics. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 48(3): 365-385.

• Strhan, A., Lee, L., and Shillitoe, R. (2024) Becoming Humanist: Worldview Formation and the Emergence of Atheist Britain. Sociology of Religion 85(4): 454-481.

• Abeyasekera, A.L. (2023) 'The Buddha in the home': dwelling with domestic violence in urban Sri Lanka. Gender, Place & Culture 31(8): 1165-1187.

• Koca, M. (2023) Juxtaposing violent extremism and critical radicalism in Europe: the role of reflexive awareness in pursuit of religious purity and cultural essence. Politics, Religion & Ideology 24(3): 352–376.

• Malone, J. (2023) The importance and limitations of ‘Choice’ in child-rearing practices for non-believing older adults. Religion 53(2): 335-357. 

• Williams, M. (2023). Not Secular: Interrogating the Sacred-Secular Binary through Gospel-Pop Performance. Religions 14(9), Article 1178. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14091178

• Di Placido, M., Strhan, A., and Palmisano, S. (2022) Modern Postural Yoga and the Health-Spirituality-Neoliberalism Nexus. Fieldwork in Religion. https://doi.org/10.1558/firn.24253 

• Strhan, A. and Shillitoe, R. (2022) The Experiences of Non-Religious Children in Religious Education. Journal of Religious Education 70: 261-272.

• Wooffitt, R. (2022) Poetic Confluence: The Social Organization of a Telepathic Experience. Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition 2(1) https://doi.org/10.31156/jaex.23818 

Book chapters

• Williams, M. (2024) Black British Gospel-Pop Crossover. In M.M. Ingalls, P.E. Muir & D.A. Dixon McKenzie (eds), Black British Gospel Music: From the Windrush Generation to Black Lives Matter. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

• Campbell, C. (2024) The Cultic Milieu and the Spiritual Turn. In Dick Houtman and Galen Watts (eds.), The Shape of Spirituality: The Public Significance of a New Religious Formation, Columbia University Press, 59-64.

• Koca, M. (2023) Religiosities in a Globalised Market: Migrant-Origin Muslim Europeans’ Self-Positioning Beyond the Sending and Receiving States’ Politics of Religion. In Nativist and Islamist Radicalism, Routledge, 199–225.