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External and Internal Threats to the Freedom of Religion or Belief of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America (2025)
Journal Article
Petri, D. P., & Klocek, J. (2025). External and Internal Threats to the Freedom of Religion or Belief of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America. Religions, 16(2), Article 209. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16020209

Indigenous Peoples in Latin America face a dual challenge of social vulnerability and violations of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB). Representing 8% of the region's population yet disproportionately affected by poverty, displacement, and health... Read More about External and Internal Threats to the Freedom of Religion or Belief of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America.

Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., Ngo, V., McGarry, G., Kucukyilmaz, A., Benford, S., & Higgins, A. (2025, February). Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations. Presented at Designing for Bodies: Practices, Imaginaries and Discourses, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding

In this piece we start to explore the ways in which we somatise our interaction with robots as a symbiotic system - both as human and robot, and as human-robot. We also consider the ways that we might want to take our physical nature (existence), for... Read More about Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations.

Per florida ad astra: Musical Insights into the Monastic Star Timetable (Oxford, MS. Bodl. 38) and the Cultural Life of Early Eleventh-Century Fleury (2024)
Journal Article
PARKES, H. (in press). Per florida ad astra: Musical Insights into the Monastic Star Timetable (Oxford, MS. Bodl. 38) and the Cultural Life of Early Eleventh-Century Fleury. Journal of Musicology,

The eleventh-century manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 38 is celebrated for its remarkable monastic horologium, or star timetable, which uses the stars to determine the timing of the Night Office liturgy. Recent scholarship has confirmed... Read More about Per florida ad astra: Musical Insights into the Monastic Star Timetable (Oxford, MS. Bodl. 38) and the Cultural Life of Early Eleventh-Century Fleury.

Who studies religion? Towards a better conversation between Theology, Religious Studies, and Religious Education (2023)
Journal Article
Benoit, C., & Hutchings, T. (2023). Who studies religion? Towards a better conversation between Theology, Religious Studies, and Religious Education. Journal of Religious Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40839-023-00213-0

This paper calls for better integration between the fields of Theology and Religious Studies (TRS) and Religious Education (RE). Positive reform in RE requires integration between educational theory, policy, and practice, but we argue that the academ... Read More about Who studies religion? Towards a better conversation between Theology, Religious Studies, and Religious Education.

Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice (2021)
Journal Article
Hutchings, T., Benoit, C., & Shillitoe, R. (2021). Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice. Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, 23, 8-28. https://doi.org/10.18792/jbasr.v23i0.54

This article builds on Worldview-A Multidisciplinary Report (Benoit, Hutchings and Shillitoe, 2020), a publication commissioned by the RE Council of England and Wales to outline the academic history of the study of worldviews. We focus on three parti... Read More about Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice.

Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion (2020)
Journal Article
Reader, J., Jandrić, P., Peters, M. A., Barnett, R., Garbowski, M., Lipińska, V., Rider, S., Bhatt, I., Clarke, A., Hashemi, M., Bevan, A., Trozzo, E., MacKenzie, A., Aldern, J. J., Matias, C. E., Tuari Stewart, G., Mika, C., McLaren, P., Fawns, T., Knox, J., …Baker, C. (2021). Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion. Postdigital Science and Education, 3, 934–965. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-020-00133-4

This collectively written article explores postdigital relationships between science, philosophy, and religion within the continuum of enchantment, disenchantment, and re-enchantment. Contributions are broadly classified within four sections related... Read More about Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion.

Ibn Taymiyya (2019)
Book
Hoover, J. (2019). Ibn Taymiyya. Oneworld Academic

Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328) of Damascus was one of the most prominent and controversial religious scholars of medieval Islam. He called for jihad against the Mongol invaders of Syria, appealed to the foundational sources of Islam for reform, and battled... Read More about Ibn Taymiyya.

Digital Christianity (2019)
Book Chapter
Hutchings, T. (2019). Digital Christianity. In The Bloomsbury Handbook to Studying Christians (223-226). Bloomsbury Publishing

Introduction to the key theories and principles of the study of digital Christianity.

Emotion, Ritual and Rules of Feeling in the Study of Digital Religion (2019)
Book Chapter
Hutchings, T. (2019). Emotion, Ritual and Rules of Feeling in the Study of Digital Religion. In A. Possamai-Inesedy, & A. Nixon (Eds.), The Digital Social. De Gruyter

This chapter will attempt to encourage greater engagement with emotion among scholars of digital religion by introducing two theoretical approaches. In the first half of the chapter, we will consider the place of emotion in the study of ritual, begin... Read More about Emotion, Ritual and Rules of Feeling in the Study of Digital Religion.

Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval West (2019)
Book Chapter
LUTTON, R. (2019). Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval West. In Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages (129-153). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004409422_009

From the eleventh century onward, there was an increasing preoccupation in Western Christianity with Christ’s humanity and suffering body. This “Christocentric turn” was not just towards the bloodied human body of Christ but also towards his human na... Read More about Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval West.

Angels and the Digital Afterlife: Death and Nonreligion Online (2019)
Journal Article
Hutchings, T. (2019). Angels and the Digital Afterlife: Death and Nonreligion Online. Secularism and Nonreligion, 8, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.5334/snr.105

This brief article aims to draw the attention of nonreligion researchers to a growing interdisciplinary research field: the study of death online. In digitally networked societies, the dead are remembered online, and their survivors can use digital r... Read More about Angels and the Digital Afterlife: Death and Nonreligion Online.

"The Light of a Thousand Stories": Design, Play and Community in the Christian Videogame Guardians of Ancora (2019)
Journal Article
Hutchings, T. (2019). "The Light of a Thousand Stories": Design, Play and Community in the Christian Videogame Guardians of Ancora. Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, 14, 159-178. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.rel.2019.0.23952

Understanding a videogame requires attention to the social dimensions of its production, its material form and its reception. Games are produced in communities of designers, played by communities of gamers, and accepted into families, households, and... Read More about "The Light of a Thousand Stories": Design, Play and Community in the Christian Videogame Guardians of Ancora.

A Theory of Evolution of Religious Knowledge in a Post-Revolutionary Iran: And a New Frontier for Sociology of Knowledge (2018)
Book Chapter
Hashemi, M., & Bagherpour, A. R. (2018). A Theory of Evolution of Religious Knowledge in a Post-Revolutionary Iran: And a New Frontier for Sociology of Knowledge. In M. Stenmark, S. Fuller, & U. Zackariasson (Eds.), Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society (71-83). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96559-8_5

Abdolkarim Soroush is a prominent figure in the religious intellectualism movement in post-revolutionary Iran. In 1991, he published a controversial book, The Theoretical Contraction and Expansion of the Sacred Law, on the social evolution of religio... Read More about A Theory of Evolution of Religious Knowledge in a Post-Revolutionary Iran: And a New Frontier for Sociology of Knowledge.

Creating Church Online: Ritual, Community and New Media (2017)
Book
Hutchings, T. (2017). Creating Church Online: Ritual, Community and New Media. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203111093

© 2017 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved. Online churches are internet-based Christian communities, pursuing worship, discussion, friendship, support, proselytization, and other key religious goals through computer-mediated communication. Hundr... Read More about Creating Church Online: Ritual, Community and New Media.

Materiality and the Study of Religion: The Stuff of the Sacred (2016)
Book
Hutchings, T., & McKenzie, J. (Eds.). (2016). Materiality and the Study of Religion: The Stuff of the Sacred. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315604787

Material culture has emerged in recent decades as a significant theoretical concern for the study of religion. This book contributes to and evaluates this material turn, presenting thirteen chapters of new empirical research and theoretical reflectio... Read More about Materiality and the Study of Religion: The Stuff of the Sacred.

E-Reading and the Christian Bible (2015)
Journal Article
Hutchings, T. (2015). E-Reading and the Christian Bible. Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 44(4), 423-440. https://doi.org/10.1177/0008429815610607

The Christian Bible is now available in thousands of digital forms, re-imagined for electronic reading on mobile, tablet and desktop screens. This article introduces findings from an online survey of digital Bible users, analysing their demographics,... Read More about E-Reading and the Christian Bible.