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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.​

The Public Significance of the Spiritual Turn (co-edited with Dick Houtman)
  • Manuscript under review.​​

Journal Articles
"Capital and distinction or goods and traditions? Toward a post-Bourdieusian cultural theory" 
  • 2023. American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Advance Online.

"The Spiritual Turn and the Disenchantment of the World: Max Weber, Peter Berger, and the Religion-Science Conflict" 
  • 2023. The Sociological Review.  Volume 7, Issue 1. (co-authored with Dick Houtman)

"Purification or Pollution? The Debate over 'Workplace Spirituality'" 
  • 2022. Cultural Sociology​. Advance Online. (co-authored with Dick Houtman).​

​"Can Critical Religion play by Its own rules?: Why there must be more than one way to be 'critical' in the study of religion"
  • 2022. Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Volume 90, Issue 2. (co-authored with Sharday Mosurinjohn).

"Social Science as Public Philosophy Revived"
  • ​2022. Civic Sociology. Volume 3, Issue 1.

"Are you a neoliberal subject? On the uses and abuses of a concept"
  • 2022. European Journal of Social Theory. Volume 25, Issue 3.

 "The religion of the heart: 'Spirituality' in late modernity" 
  • 2022. American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Volume 10.

"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.

"On the Politics of Self-Spirituality: A Canadian Case Study."
  • 2018. Studies in Religion. Volume 47, Issue 3.

Book Chapters
“Donald J. Trump and the Canadian Civil Sphere”
  • (In press). In The Civil Sphere in Canada, edited by Jeffrey Alexander and Mervyn Horgan, published by University of British Columbia Press.
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"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 Essay of A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah by Matteo Bortolini.
  • 2023. In Contemporary Sociology.
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Review of Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Power edited by Brian Steensland, Jaime Kucinskas, Anna Sun.
  • ​2022. In Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Advance Online.
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Review of A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights by Matthew McManus. 
  • 2021. Law, Culture and the Humanities. 17 (3): 640-643
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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.
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Review of ​Secular Societies, Spiritual Selves edited by Anna Fedele and Kim E. Knibbe.
  • 2020. In Religion. Volume 51, Issue 1.
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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.​
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