Study of Religion staff

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Acting Programme Director

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Dr Sara Rahmani

Senior Lecturer

School of Social and Cultural Studies

Postgraduate coordinator

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Dr Sara Rahmani

Senior Lecturer

School of Social and Cultural Studies

Programme staff

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Dr Philip Fountain

Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies

School of Social and Cultural Studies

Research Areas:  Religion and Development; Anthropology of Religion; Development Studies; Humanitarianism; Peace and Conflict; NGOs; Disasters; Secularism; Political Theology;... read more

Anthropology Philosophy and religious studies Religious studies Religion, society and culture
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Dr Sara Rahmani

Senior Lecturer

School of Social and Cultural Studies

Research Areas: 

Atheism and Nonreligion, Religious Conversion/Disengagement, Ethnography, Discourse and Narrative Analysis, Linguistic Anthropology, New Religious... read more

Social and cultural anthropology Religious studies Religion, society and culture
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Michaela Richards

Teaching Fellow

School of Social and Cultural Studies

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Bruno Shirley

Teaching Fellow

School of Social and Cultural Studies

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Dr Geoff Troughton

Deputy Head of School
School of Social and Cultural Studies

Research Areas:  Religion in New Zealand and the Pacific region; history of Christianity; contemporary religious change; religious activism and the politics of religion;... read more

New Zealand history Philosophy and religious studies Religious studies Christian studies Religion, society and culture
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Dr Lina Verchery

Lecturer in Religious Studies
School of Social and Cultural Studies

Research Areas:  Buddhist Studies; Chinese Religions; Religions of East Asia; Monasticism; Environmental Humanities and Interspecies Ethics; Modernity, Globalisation, and... read more

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Dr Rick Weiss

Adjunct Associate Professor

Teaching Fellow

School of Social and Cultural Studies|School of Social and Cultural Studies

Emeritus Professor

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Prof Paul Morris

Emeritus Professor

Research Advisor

School of Social and Cultural Studies|Vice-Provost Research Centre

Adjunct Professors

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Dr Rick Weiss

Adjunct Associate Professor
School of Social and Cultural Studies

Adjunct research fellows

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Dr Christopher Joll

Adjunct Research Fellow
School of Social and Cultural Studies

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Dr Tom Noakes-Duncan

Adjunct Research Fellow
School of Social and Cultural Studies

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Dr Rachel Tallon

Adjunct Research Fellow
Social and Cultural Studies