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I am a Religious Studies scholar by training and joined The Open University in January 2022 as Staff Tutor and Lecturer in Sociology and Religious Studies. I am author of The Critical Study of Non-religion: Discourse, Identification and Locality (Bloomsbury, 2020) and co-editor of Social Identities between the Sacred and the Secular (Ashgate, 2013), After World Religions: Reconstructing Religious Studies (Routledge, 2016), and New Atheism: Critical Perspectives and Contemporary Debates (Springer, 2017). I am also co-editor of the open-access journal Secularism & Nonreligion. I completed my doctorate in Religious Studies at Lancaster University in 2016. My thesis focused upon the discourses on ‘religion’ in the Southside of Edinburgh, the concepts of ‘non-religion’ and ‘the secular’, and the ensuing critical and theoretical implications for Religious Studies. My previous degrees at the University of Edinburgh focused upon ‘New Atheism’ and alternative typologies of ‘non-religion’. My wider interests include New Religious Movements, qualitative methods, discourse analysis, spatial approaches, critical theory, and Religious Studies as a discipline. After these periods of study, I was Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (2017-2020), Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Chester (2020-2021), IASH-CTPI Duncan Forrester Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (2020-2021), and Teaching Fellow in Anthropology and Sociology of Religions at the University of Edinburgh (2021). I am also co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the The Religious Studies Project podcast, Honorary Treasurer of the British Association for the Study of Religions and an advisory board member the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network.

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Dr. Isabella Kasselstrand is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. She conducts research on secularization and secularity, including aspects of religious indifference, immigration, social trust, cultural religion, and ritual participation. Using quantitative and mixed methods, her work is broadly comparative and cross-national, with a primary focus on Northern Europe. Her articles are published in journals such as Sociology of Religion; Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion; Social Compass; Journal of Contemporary Religion; Secularism & Nonreligion; Nordic Journal of Religion & Society; and Scottish Affairs. She is currently writing a book on secularization (with Phil Zuckerman and Ryan Cragun, NYU Press).

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Department of Anglophone Studies of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Faculté des Lettres).

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Jack David Eller holds a PhD in Anthropology from Boston University, for which he conducted fieldwork on Australian Aboriginal religion and culture. His areas of interest include anthropology of religion, anthropology of violence, and psychological anthropology. He is the author of numerous articles and several books, including "Introducing Anthropology of Religion" (Routledge, 2014), "Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence: Religious Violence across Culture and History" (Prometheus, 2010), "Psychological Anthropology for the 21st Century" (Routledge, 2018), "Natural Atheism" (American Atheist Press, 2004), and "Atheism Advanced" (American Atheist Press, 2007).

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