Researchers

Raoul Adam PhD
Deconversion and developmental psychology | Religion and epistemological development | Trajectories
of religious and non-religious development | Religious and non-religious fundamentalisms | Religious
education
raoul.adam@jcu.edu.au
http://cms.jcu.edu.au/education/staff/JCUPRD_032988

Tom Arcaro Professor
Sociology and evolutionary psychology | The stigmatization of atheism | Social change
arcaro@elon.edu
http://facstaff.elon.edu/arcaro/

Anabela de Assis Pinto PhD
Evolution of morality
aap28@cam.ac.uk
http://www.prime.bioanth.cam.ac.uk/anabela.html
Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Samuel Bagg
Sociology of irreligion | Atheism in America | American civil religion and religious history | Pluralism in
political theory and American history | Science of human nature in political and social theory
samuel.bagg@gmail.com

Ralph Barnes PhD
Psychology of science | Creation/evolution | Public reaction to science claims
barnes.183@osu.edu

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi Professor
Psychology of non-believers
benny@psy.haifa.ac.il

Emke Bosgraaf PhD
Psychology of religion and irreligion | Conversion and deconversion research | Atheism in the
Netherlands | Atheism and activism
e.bosgraaf@rug.nl
www.rug.nl/staff/e.bosgraaf

Stephen Bullivant PhD
Sociology of atheism/unbelief | New Atheism | Psychology of atheism/unbelief | Irreligious experiences
|Conversion and deconversion | Atheism and Catholic theology
stephen.bullivant@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Nicolae Bulz Professor
Inter-, trans- and co-disciplinary approaches to non-, a- and meta-religious and religious studies
nbulz@yahoo.com

Catherine Caldwell-Harris PhD
Evolutionary psychology | Individual differences | Cognitive science | Social neuroscience | Autism
charris@bu.edu
http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/charris/

Jason Cantone
Psychology of religious discrimination in the workplace(self-referencing in hostrile work environment
actions) | Religious accommodation requests
cantone@gmail.com

Richard Cimino PhD
Sociology of secular humanism and atheism | The New Atheism
relwatch1@msn.com
http://www.religionwatch.com

Ryan Cragun PhD
Sociology of non-religion | Social psychology of religion | Prejudice towards non-religious | Conformity in
belief | Fundamentalists and evolution
ryantcragun@gmail.com
http://www.ut.edu/detail.aspx?bio=1&id=4402
Department of Sociology, University of Tampa

Jarret Crawford PhD
Anti-atheist prejudice | Meaning and atheism | Religious differences in reminders of death and
uncertainty | Comparing theist and atheist responses to mortality salience
crawford@tcnj.edu
http://psychology.department.tcnj.edu/faculty/crawford.html

David M. Csaszar
New Atheism | Method and Theory in the Study of Religion
hopefulmelancholy@gmail.com

Girts Dimdins
Moral judgements and perception of justice | Influence of political ideology on reasoning | Terror
management | Religiousness as an adaptive mechanism
girts.dimdins@lu.lv
http://web.me.com/girtsd

Anthony Federico
Cultures and practices of secularism | Communications, technology, and cyberspace | Anthropology of
Religion and Religious Studies | Critical theory | Modernity
235197@soas.ac.uk

Luke Galen PhD
Psychology of religion | Religious fundamentalism |Psychology of atheism | Social cognition of belief and
disbelief | Morality and perceived morality | Deservingness | Belief in a just world
galenl@gvsu.edu
http://www.gvsu.edu/psychology/luke-galen-110.htm

Armin W. Geertz Professor
Cognitive science of religion | Culture and cognition | Method and theory in the study of religion,
Psychology of religion | Atheism and cognitive | Theories of religion
awg@teo.au.dk
http://person.au.dk/en/awg@teo.au.dk

Nicholas Gibson PhD
Religious cognition | God concepts | Anger toward God | Religious attribution | Cognitive science of
religion
njsjg2@cam.ac.uk
http://www.sdp.cam.ac.uk/contacts/staff/profiles/ngibson.html
Psychology, University of Cambridge

Stacey Gutkowski PhD
Religion, secularism and the security imaginary
seg46@cam.ac.uk
International Studies, University of Cambridge

Joseph Hammer
Psychology of secularity | Secular Minority Stress (e.g., coping, closeting, health, and resilience in the
context of stigma and discrimination) | Secular Identity Development | Research methods with secular
populations | Secularity as diversity issue in counseling
hammer@atheistresearch.org
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~hammer/
Psychology, Iowa State University

Bethany Heywood
Teleology | Cognitive science of religion | Atheism
bheywood01@qub.ac.uk

Nicolas Howe PhD
Cultural and political geographies of religion | History of American secularism | Secularization theory |
Religious performance and the public/private divide
nxh129@case.edu
Religious Studies, SAGES Case Western Reserve University

Karen Hwang PhD
Effects of spirituality and secularity on health, chronic illness and disability | Health effects of
discrimination and stigma | Within-group variations in atheist and secularist populations |
Methodological issues in research with atheists | Attachment and close relationships in secular
individuals
khwang67@verizon.net

Birgitte Johansen
Social practice and the production of boundaries between religion and non-religion | Secular space
within academia | Constructions of religion in Danish academic practice | Instutitional constructions of
religion | Imam education in Europe
bjohansen@hum.ku.dk
http://minoritetsstudier.ku.dk/ansatte/

John Johnson PhD
Religious and nonreligious morality | Evolution of moral absolutism
j5j@psu.edu
http://www.personal.psu.edu/~j5j/virtues/

Jonathan Lanman
Cognitive Anthropology of Religion and Non-theism | Secularisation theory | Belief | Coalitionary
Commitment | Moral Intuitions
jonathan.lanman@anthro.ox.ac.uk
http://oxford.academia.edu/JonathanLanman
http://www.icea.ox.ac.uk/about-us/staff/students/jon-lanman/

Helen Lee PhD
Socio-cultural and psychological constructions of 'non-religious' spirituality
h.a.n.lee@staffs.ac.uk
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/sciences/psychology/staff/lee/index.php

Lois Lee
Sociology of non-religion (atheism, agnosticism, no religion etc.), humanism and secularity | Theory and
definition of religion, non-religion and secularity | Inter-disciplinary approaches to (non-)religion |
Sociology of knowledge and epistemology | Secularisation, modernity and social distribution theories |
Relational philosophy and epistemology
ll317@cam.ac.uk
http://cambridge.academia.edu/LoisLee
Sociology, University of Cambridge

Einat B. Libel-Hass
Contemporary Judaism
einat.libel@gmail.com

Matthew Loveland
Atheism and community
lovelam@lemoyne.edu

Michael Magee
Interpersonal foundations of religious belief
mmagee@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Bjoern Mastiaux
Sociology of religion and non-religion | Research on members of atheist organizations in Germany and
the United States | Organized atheism
mastiaux@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de
http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/soziologie/personal-lehrstuehle/professur-i-prof-dr-michael-baurm
ann/homepage-bjoern-mastiaux-m-a/

Stuart McAnulla PhD
The politics of New Atheism | Political implications of contemporary atheism
ipisdm@leeds.ac.uk
http://www.polis.leeds.ac.uk/about/staff/mcanulla/
Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds

William McConochie PhD
Political psychology | Measurement of psychological traits and political attitudes, including religious
fundamentalism, kindly religious beliefs and personal value of religion
bill@politicalpsychologyresearch.com
www.politicalpsychologyresearch.com

John McGraw
Anthropology of religion | Psychological anthropology
jmcgraw@ucsd.edu
www.johnjmcgraw.com

Ryan McKay PhD
Cognitive science of religion | Psychology of atheism | Delusions
ryan.mckay@anthro.ox.ac.uk
http://homepage.mac.com/ryantmckay/

Peter Mulholland
Socialization and secularization | Religious abuses and the decline of Irish Catholicism | 'Alternative'
healing and the spread of 'New Ageism' | Psychological anthropology
peter.mulholland4@gmail.com
Social anthropology

Suzanne Newcombe PhD
Yoga in a western context | New/alternative/minority religious and spiritual movements | 'Easternization' |
Contemporary religiosity | Internet use and religion | Twentieth century British history
s.newcombe@lse.ac.uk

Frank L. Pasquale PhD
Existential/metaphysical worldviews and related behaviour (ritual, social, moral, ethical) | Varieties of
secularity | Secular group affiliates | Social scientific, linguistic, and cultural constructions of the
religious-secular distinction | Functions of religious identity in the United States
flpasquale@comcast.net
http://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/AcademicResources/values/ISSSC/default.html

Stratos Patrikios PhD
Secularisation theory | Religious and secular identities
e.patrikios@strath.ac.uk
http://www.strath.ac.uk/government/staff/patrikiosstratosdr/

Jesper Aagaard Petersen
New religions and the natural sciences | Western esotericism, Satanism and Left-Hand Path groups and
currents | Self-religion, cultic milieu and occulture | Authority and legitimacy in modernity | Discourse
theories | Secular apocalyptics
jesper.petersen@ntnu.no
http://www.ntnu.no/employees/jesper.petersen
History of Religions, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim)

Johannes Quack
Rationalist/humanist/atheist movements in India | Anthropology of religion | Medical anthropology (mental
health)
JohannesQuack@web.de
http://ritualdynamik.de/ritualdynamik/ueber_uns/forschungsprofile/quack_j.php
http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/abt/ETHNO/index.php?language=en&page=staff/quack

Susannah Rigg
Implicit forms of religion and non-religion | Religious, secular and post-secular identity resources |
Meaning making and youth
srigg01@students.bbk.ac.uk

Abraham Rutchick PhD
Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination against unbelievers | Piety and politics
abraham.rutchick@csun.edu

Benson Saler Professor
Cognitive Science of Religion | Atheism and the apotheosis of agency
b4saler@aol.com

Kirk Schneider
Awe | Personal accounts of profound transformation

Todd K. Shackelford PhD
Evolutionary psychology of atheism and religiosity | Intelligence and religiosity
tshackel@fau.edu
http://www.toddkshackelford.com

Matt Sheard
History of atheism in 20th Century Britain | Lived experience of loss of faith | History of secularism
kshea04@students.bbk.ac.uk

Trevor Stack PhD
Alternative religious/secular distinctions and their consequences |
Religious/secular distinctions made by Catholic Church | Religious/secular distinctions in the genre of
history
t.stack@abdn.ac.uk

Ingrid Storm
Religious, secular and national identities in Western Europe | Religious identities among ethnic
majorities | Intermediate religiosity | Nominalism
ingrid.storm@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Teemu Taira PhD
Public discourse on religion, secularity and atheism | New Atheism | Atheism in Finland
teetai@utu.fi
http://www.hum.utu.fi/oppiaineet/uskontotiede/en/staff/teemu.html

Peter Thompson PhD
Ernest Bloch | Marxism and theology | Atheism | Political theology
p.thompson@sheffield.ac.uk
http://shef.ac.uk/ernstbloch/

David Voas Professor
Secularization | Secularity | Religious change in developed countries
voas@man.ac.uk
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/sociology/about/staff/voas

Claire White
Cognitive Science of Religion | Religion and Psychology
cw425@cam.ac.uk

Phil Zuckerman PhD
Sociology of secularity | Apostasy | Scandinavia
phil_zuckerman@pitzer.edu
http://www.pitzer.edu/academics/faculty/zuckerman/