PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity
- Oxford University Press, 2022.
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"
"The Spiritual Turn and the Disenchantment of the World: Max Weber, Peter Berger, and the Religion-Science Conflict"
"Purification or Pollution? The Debate over 'Workplace Spirituality'"
"Can Critical Religion play by Its own rules?: Why there must be more than one way to be 'critical' in the study of religion"
"Social Science as Public Philosophy Revived"
"Are you a neoliberal subject? On the uses and abuses of a concept"
"The religion of the heart: 'Spirituality' in late modernity"
"Religious Studies and the Spiritual Turn"
"Making sense of the study of spirituality: late modernity on trial"
"Religion, Science, and Disenchantment in Late Modernity."
"On the Politics of Self-Spirituality: A Canadian Case Study."
- 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”
"Spirituality, Self-Help, and Subjective Wellbeing Culture."
"The Spiritual Turn in Canada: 'Spiritual but not Religious' Canadian Millennials."
"Cultural Disenchantment and the Rise of Holistic Spirituality"
- (In press). In The Civil Sphere in Canada, edited by Jeffrey Alexander and Mervyn Horgan, published by University of British Columbia Press.
"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 Religion, Spirituality, and Secularity among Millennials: The Generation Shaping American and Canadian Trends by Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme.
- 2023. In Sociology of Religion.
Review Essay of A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah by Matteo Bortolini.
- 2023. In Contemporary Sociology.
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.
Review of A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights by Matthew McManus.
- 2021. Law, Culture and the Humanities. 17 (3): 640-643
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.
Non-Academic Publications