Religious Studies staff

Find contact details and information about Religious Studies staff.

Programme Director

Dr Philip Fountain

Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies
School of Social and Cultural Studies

philip.fountain@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1109, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Postgraduate coordinator

Dr Sara Rahmani

Lecturer in Religious Studies
School of Social and Cultural Studies

sara.rahmani@vuw.ac.nz

Programme staff

Dr Philip Fountain

Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies
School of Social and Cultural Studies

philip.fountain@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1109, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

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

Dr Sara Rahmani

Lecturer in Religious Studies
School of Social and Cultural Studies

sara.rahmani@vuw.ac.nz

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

Linguistic anthropology Social and cultural anthropology Religious studies

Dr Geoff Troughton

Deputy Head of School
School of Social and Cultural Studies

geoff.troughton@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1110, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

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

Dr Lina Verchery

Lecturer in Religious Studies

School of Social and Cultural Studies

lina.verchery@vuw.ac.nz

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