IAHR-WSN

This network has been founded in 2006 by IAHR Past President Rosalind I. J. Hackett and former IAHR Executive Committee member Morny Joy to provide a forum for women in Religious Studies throughout the world to be in contact with one another.

Women Scholars Network

Steering Committee

Kim KnottKim Knott

Professor of Religious and Secular Studies
Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YL
UK

E-mail: k.knott@lancaster.ac.uk 
Website: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/ppr/profiles/kim-knott

Areas of Specialization

  • Religion, place and space
  • Religion, migration and identity
  • Secular/religious relations
  • Media, religion and diversity
  • Ideology and violence
  • Modern Hindu movements 

Major Relevant Publications

    2014

    • (with M. Vasquez) 'Three dimensions of religious place-making in diaspora', Special Issue: The religious lives of migrant minorities: A multi-sited and transnational perspective, Global Networks, 14:3.
    • 'Religious Differentiation and Diversity in Discourse and Practice', in S. Vertovec (ed) Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies, London and NY: Routledge.

    2013

    • (with E. Poole and T. Taira), Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred: Representation and Change, Farnham and Burlington, Ashgate.
    • 'Interrogating the secular: a spatial approach', R. van Breemer, T. Wyller and J. Casanova, eds, Secular and Sacred: The Nordic Case of Religion in Human Rights, Law and Public Space, pp. 34-54, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht [with a case study on RE and Citizenship Education]
    • 'The secular sacred: in-between or both/and?', A. Day, C. Cotter and G. Vincett, eds, Social Identities between the Sacred and the Secular, pp. 145-160, Farnham/Burlington: Ashgate.

    2012

    • (with J. Mitchell) 'Changing faces of religion and media', L Woodhead and R Catto, eds, Religion and Change in Modern Britain, London and New York: Routledge.

    2011

    • Moving People, Changing Places, 48pp, Leeds: Community Religions Project; and website, www.movingpeoplechangingplaces.org.
    • 'Spatial methods', M. Stausberg and S. Engler, eds, Handbook of Research Methods in Religious Studies, pp. 491-501, London and New York: Routledge.
    • 'Religion, space and place: The spatial turn in research on religion', Religion and Society: Advances in Research, 1, pp. 29-43.

    2010

    • (with S. McLoughlin) eds, Diasporas: Concepts, Identities, Intersections, 391pp, London and New York, Zed Books.
    • 'Theoretical and methodological resources for breaking open the secular and exploring the boundary between religion and non-religion', Historia Religionum, 2, pp. 115-133.
    • 'Cutting through the postsecular city: A spatial interrogation', A. L. Molendijk et al (eds), Exploring the Postsecular: The Religious, the Political, the Urban, pp. 19-38, Leiden, Brill.

    2009

    • 'Becoming a "faith community": British Hindus, identity and the politics of representation', Journal of Religion in Europe, 2:2, pp. 85-114.
    • 'From locality to location and back again: A spatial journey in the study of religion', Religion, 39:2, pp. 154-60

    2008

    • 'Spatial theory for the study of religion', Religion Compass, 2:6, pp. 1102-16.
    • 'Inside, outside and the space in-between: Territories and boundaries in the study of religion', Temenos: The Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion, 44: 1, pp. 41-66

    2007

    • (with M. Franks), 'Secular values and the location of religion: A spatial analysis of an English medical centre', Health and Place, 13:1, pp. 224-37.

    2005

    • The Location of Religion: A Spatial Analysis, 256pp, London/Oakville CT, Equinox 

Other Information of Interest

Publicly-Funded Research Projects

  • 2005-10 - 'Diasporas, Migration and Identities' Research Programme (AHRC) £452,000 (direction and management of this £6.2mil programme)
  • 2006 - 'Arts and humanities research on the roots, practice and consequences of terrorism' (Home Office), with A. McFadyen, S. McLoughlin and M. Francis. £35,589
  • 2008-10 - 'Media portrayals of religion and the secular sacred' (AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme), with Dr E. Poole (Staffordshire University) £219,328
  • 2010-11 - 'Programme Director's Impact Fellowship: Crossing borders, disciplines, boundaries', (AHRC) £140,000
  • 2011-16 - 'Realising impact and innovation in the arts and humanities', University of Leeds Transformation Fund, with the Faculty of Arts (competitively awarded), £1.75mil, Knott was project leader, with 7 co-investigators.
  • 2012-14 - 'Religion, discourse and diversity: UK/Canada collaboration' (ESRC International Partnership and Networking Scheme), with L. Beaman (University of Ottawa) £21,911
  • 2012-15 - 'The role of ideology, belief and commitment in motivations, justifications and catalysts for action in the face of uncertainty' (RCUK Global Uncertainties Leadership Fellowship) £473,085.
  • 2013-16 - 'Iconic Religion' (HERA Cultural Encounters Programme), with V. Krech (PI, Bochum) and B. Meyer (Utrecht), €997,000, Knott: €247,000. 2013-14 'Threat Group Case Study: Aum Shinrikyo' (BAE Systems/Defence Human Capability Science and Technology Centre, for DSTL), £11,911.