Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity

Oxford University Press, 2022.

Understanding Cultural Sociology (with Dick Houtman)

Under contract with Edward Elgar Publishing.

New Religious Movements and the Spirit of Modernity (with Stef Aupers and Dick Houtman)

Under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Journal Articles

"Can Critical Religion play by Its own rules?: Why there must be more than one way to be 'critical' in the study of religion"

In press. Journal of the American Academy of Religion. (co-authored with Sharday Mosurinjohn).

"Social Science as Public Philosophy Revived"

2022. Civic Sociology. Advance Online.

"The Spiritual Turn and the Disenchantment of the World: Max Weber, Peter Berger, and the Religion-Science Conflict"

2022. The Sociological Review. Advance Online. (co-authored with Dick Houtman)

"The religion of the heart: 'Spirituality' in late modernity"

2022. American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Volume 10.

"Are you a neoliberal subject? On the uses and abuses of a concept"

2021. European Journal of Social Theory. Advance Online.

"Religious Studies and the Spiritual Turn"

2021. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. Volume 33. (co-authored with Sharday Mosurinjohn)

"Making sense of the study of spirituality: late modernity on trial"

2020. Religion. Volume 50, Issue 4.

"Religion, Science, and Disenchantment in Late Modernity."

2019. Zygon. Volume 54, Issue 4.

"Recovering Enchantment: Addiction, Spirituality, and Charles Taylor's Malaise of Modernity."

2019. Journal of Contemporary Religion. Volume 34, Issue 1.

"Missing the Forest for the Trees: "Spiritual" Religion in a Secular Age."

2018. Toronto Journal of Theology. Volume 34, Issue 2.

"On the Politics of Self-Spirituality: A Canadian Case Study."

2018. Studies in Religion. Volume 47, Issue 3.

"'Of' or 'For': The Study of Spirituality and the Problems Therein."

2017. Journal for the Study of Spirituality. Volume 7, Issue 1.

Book Chapters

"Spirituality, Self-Help, and Subjective Wellbeing Culture."

(2022). In New Spiritualities and the Culture of Well-Being, edited by Géraldine Mossière, published by Springer.

"The Spiritual Turn in Canada: 'Spiritual but not Religious' Canadian Millennials."

(2022). In The Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion Vol. 2, edited by Terry Shoemaker, Rachel Schneider, and Xochitl Alvizo, published by Wipf and Stock.

"Cultural Disenchantment and the Rise of Holistic Spirituality"

(2021). In Mutual Enrichment Between Psychology and Theology, edited by Russel Re Manning, published by Routledge.

Book Reviews / Review Essays

Review of A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah by Matteo Bortolini.

Accepted/In press. In Contemporary Sociology.

Review of Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Power edited by Brian Steensland, Jaime Kucinskas, Anna Sun.

Accepted/In press. In Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

Review of Spirituality, Organization and Neoliberalism edited by Emma Bell, Sorin Gog, Anca Simionca, and Scott Taylor.

2021. In Journal of Contemporary Religion. Volume 36, Issue 3.

Review of Secular Societies, Spiritual Selves edited by Anna Fedele and Kim E. Knibbe.

2020. In Religion. Volume 51, Issue 1.

Review of None of the Above: Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada by Joel Thiessen and Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme.

2020. In Religion. Volume 51, Issue 1.

Review of The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences by Jason Josephson-Storm.

2019. In Journal of Contemporary Religion. Volume 34, Issue 2.

Review of The Road to Character by David Brooks.

2017. In Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. Volume 29, Issue 1.

Non-Academic Publications