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The Centre is managed by its director, Professor Gordon Lynch, with the support of a small steering committee drawn from staff and students at the Centre, as well as an international advisory group.
The academic staff members of the Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society are:
William Ackah, Lecturer in Community and Voluntary Sector Studies (Research interests: community development and political engagement in black-majority churches; religion and ethnicity)
John Annette, Professor of Citizenship and Lifelong Learning (Research interests: faith communities and civic engagement; faith-community leadership; religion and conflict-resolution)
John Arnold, Professor of Medieval History (Research interests: theorising the study of religion; belief, unbelief and the socio-cultural significance of heresy)
Edwin Bacon, Reader in Comparative Politics (Research interests: inter-sections between religion and contemporary political movements and institutions in the West; religion in public life in Russia)
Sean Brady, Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (Research interests: religion, sexuality, gender and politics in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain)
Matthijs van den Bos, Lecturer in International Studies (Research interests: Shia Muslim thought and communities in Europe; religious transnationalism; religion in Iran)
Stephen Frosh, Professor of Psychology (Research interests: Religion and identity; anti-Semitism)
Dominic Janes, Lecturer in Cultural History (Research interests: religion and visual/material culture; religion and capitalism; religion and sexuality)
Keith Kahn-Harris, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society (Research interests: sociology of religion, popular music, contemporary Judaism, intra-faith dialogue)
Eric Kaufman, Reader in Politics and Sociology (Research interests: religion and demography; political dimensions of religion, nationalism and ethnicity; the Orange order in Northern Ireland)
Dina Kiwan, RCUK Academic Fellow in Citizenship Education (Research interests: religion and public policy, citizenship education in the context of religious pluralism)
Gordon Lynch, Professor in the Sociology of Religion (Research interests: religion, media and culture; religious trends in contemporary Western society; the sacred in contemporary culture)
Carmen Mangion, Lecturer in History (Research interests: gender, religion, philanthropy and health-care; Catholic female religious orders)
Daniel Monk, Senior Lecturer in Law (Research interests: religion, law and childhood; the legal system as a site for contesting the place of religion in public life)
Yasmeen Narayan, Lecturer in Sociology (Research interests: religion, ethnicity and identity; religion and everyday life-worlds)
Barbara Zollner, Lecturer in Islamic Studies (Research interests: Islamic theological and political thought in the Middle-East, contemporary forms of progressive Islam)