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This is a special guest blog posting by Professor Charles Emmons of Gettysburg College, USA. Charles is a sociologist and has published widely from his research on the sociology of science and spirit, and appeared on numerous TV and radio … Continue reading →

Yesterday we did ‘research speed dating’ at work. It could have been history’s dullest and shortest lived affair, but actually it was fascinating. We each had 5 minutes, strictly timed, to talk about our research passions. What I am passionate … Continue reading →

Today hundreds of people around the world are blogging about a small kindness they have received and what it meant to them. I am joining in this Small Kindnesses Blogsplash! I thought long and hard about what small kindness I … Continue reading →

The last time I posted about a book on here it was to comment on how engrossed I had become with Philip Carr-Gomm and Richard Heygate’s ‘The Book of English Magic’ which completely absorbed me for my week by the pool … Continue reading →

Thank you to everyone who came along to the book launch. Professor Charles Emmons and Professor Steve Pile blew me away with their very kind words, we had some lovely wine and I even sold a few books. What more … Continue reading →

Thank you to everyone who attended the ‘virtual book launch’ earlier in the year to mark the publication of my book ‘Everyday Spirituality: Social and Spatial Worlds of Enchantmnet’. I am now delighted to be able to advertise the real thing. … Continue reading →

I love it when a book stops me in my tracks and demands 100% attention from cover to cover. So it was with my unlikely holiday read this year. I stumbled across Philip Carr-Gomm and Richard Heygate’s ‘The Book of English … Continue reading →

I have recently come back from the Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference which this year had the theme of ‘Security’. Together with colleagues I organised a session on the role of alternative spiritualities in promoting wellbeing in an age … Continue reading →

Join me at the York Festival of Ideas on 11th June where I will be talking about the research for my book and why I think we need to take seriously the place of spirit in the modern world. I … Continue reading →

I have just spent three enchanting days at a conference on Sacred Practices in Everyday Life (SPEL) – one of the culminating points of the religion and society research programme, directed by Professor Linda Woodhead of Lancaster University, and funded … Continue reading →