I pursued my undergraduate degree at the School of Oriental and African Studies in Social Anthropology and the Study of Religions. With a regional specialization in Southeast Asia I decided to continue my studies and enrolled on the PhD programme in the Study of Religions department at SOAS having decided to focus on local religion and national identity in the Philippines at a specific site, namely the extinct volcano Mount Banahaw. Since then I have conducted research on masculinities in the Philippines, on the geographies of death in Manila and Taipei and I am currently engaged in research on religious groups involved in environmental advocacy and/or activism in the Philippines. Having been appointed as Lecturer at the Open University is an exciting opportunity to develop these research interests further. I am also interested in classical and contemporary sociology and as well as publishing articles around my research I have also published more theoretically oriented work. My current research interests might just about be summed up as follows:
I am convenor of the Arts Faculty's Cross-Cultural Identities Research Group.
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(forthcoming encyclopaedia entry)
‘Structure’ in Vocabulary for the Study of Religion. (eds). R. Segal & K. von Stuckrad. Leiden: Brill.
(forthcoming book chapter)
‘The Ancestral Sensorium and the City: Reflections on Religion, Environmentalism and Citizenship in the Philippines’ in Harvey, G., (ed) Handbook of Contemporary Animism, London: Equinox.
2012 (journal article)
‘Occupied Territory at the Interstices of the Sacred: Between Capital and Community’ in Religion and Society. Vol. 3. ISSN: 2150-9301
2011 (book chapter)
'Weber-Foucault-Nietzsche: Uncertain Legacies for the Sociology of Religion in Stern, S., (ed) Sects and Sectarianism in Jewish History, Leiden: Brill, pp. 287-303, ISBN 9789004186033
2011 (journal article)
‘Structure Amongst the Modules: Lévi-Strauss and Cognitive Theorizing about Religion’ in Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, pp. 351-366, Vol. 23, ISSN: 0943-3058
2011 (journal article)
‘Re-cognizing the Mind in the Anthropology of Religion’ in NUMEN, Vol. 58, No. 4 pp. 545-565 ISSN: 0029-5973
2010 (journal article)
‘Animated Texts: Theoretical Reflections on Case Studies from the Lowland Christianized Philippines’ in Fieldwork in Religion, pp. 226-239, Vol. 5, No. 2, ISSN: 1743-0615
2009 (co-edited volume)
Re-Writing Culture in Taiwan London & New York: Routledge
2008 (journal article)
Anthropology, Dreams, Epistemology’ Anthropology Today Vol. 24, No. 6.
2008 (book chapter)
‘False Consciousness and the Jargon of Authenticity: Religion and Nationalism in the Christianised, Lowland Philippines’ Proselytization Revisted: Rights Talk, Free Markets and Culture Wars. (ed). R. I. J. Hackett. London: Equinox.
2008 (book)
Religion and the Discourse on Modernity London & New York: Continuum
2008 (book)
Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Structuring Mind. London: Equinox
2006 (co-authored journal article)
‘The Formation and Function of the Category “Religion” in Anthropological Studies of Taiwan’ Method and Theory in the Study of Religion Vol. 18, No. 1.
2004 (journal article)
On the Formation and Function of the Category ‘Religion’ in Anarchist Writing’ Religion and Culture Vol. 5, No. 3 pp. 367-381.
1999 (journal article)
‘Utopia as Praxis: The case of Joanna Southcott and the Panacea Society’ The Scottish Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1.
On modernity and secularism:
Interview: ‘The Legacy of Structuralism’
I have been interviewed by the Bulletin for the Study of Religion and the interview appears in 3 parts on the journal’s blog: Part I, Part 2, and Part 3. This has also been published as ‘The Legacy of Structuralism: An Interview with Paul-François Tremlett’ by Donovan O. Schaefer in the Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2012.
See Open Research Online for further details of Paul-François Tremlett’s research publications.
