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Religious Studies staff

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Programme Director

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Dr Geoff Troughton

Deputy Head of School
School of Social and Cultural Studies

Postgraduate coordinator

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Dr Philip Fountain

Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies
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; Activism; Humanitarianism; Peace and Conflict; NGOs; Disasters; Secularism; Political... read more

Anthropology Philosophy and Religious Studies Religion and Religious Studies Religion and Society
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Dr Sara Rahmani

Lecturer in Religious Studies
School of Social and Cultural Studies

Research Areas:  Atheism and Unbelief, Religious Conversion/Disengagement, Ethnography, Discourse and Narrative Analysis, Linguistic Anthropology, New Religious Movements,... read more

Social and Cultural Anthropology Religion and Religious Studies Linguistic Anthropology
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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; the history of Christianity; contemporary religious change; religious activism and the politics of religion;... read more

New Zealand History Philosophy and Religious Studies Religion and Religious Studies Christian Studies (incl. Biblical Studies and Church History) Religion and Society
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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

Emeritus Professor

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Prof Paul Morris

Emeritus Professor
School of Social and Cultural Studies

Adjunct Professors

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Dr Rick Weiss

Adjunct Professor
School of Social and Cultural Studies

Adjunct research fellows

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Christopher Joll