The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain (2016)
Journal Article
Janes. (2016). The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, 26-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2015.1120085

The Wordless Book is widely used today in programs of Christian teaching and evangelism across the world. It consists of a series of blank pages which are colored in accordance with religious symbolism (black in reference to sin, red in reference to... Read More about The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain.

Mining morals, muck and Akan gold in New York City (2015)
Journal Article
Parish, J. (2015). Mining morals, muck and Akan gold in New York City. Anthropology Southern Africa, 68(3-4), 290-301. https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2015.1100520

Among Akan spirit preachers at shrines in New York, gold and gold weights are at the centre of the creation of new moral topographies in a fluid and contested context. In a get-rich-quick New York marketplace, the preachers appeal to an understanding... Read More about Mining morals, muck and Akan gold in New York City.

Beyond Occult Economies: Akan spirits, New York Idols and Detroit automobiles (2015)
Journal Article
Parish. (2015). Beyond Occult Economies: Akan spirits, New York Idols and Detroit automobiles. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 5(2), 101-120. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau5.2.009

While it has been extensively recorded how the West African occult economy allows for a metanarrative critique of modernity, this article analyzes a convergence between witchcraft discourses and the capitalist market, looking through the local lens o... Read More about Beyond Occult Economies: Akan spirits, New York Idols and Detroit automobiles.

Early Victorian moral anxiety and the queer legacy of the eighteenth-century gothic revival (2015)
Book Chapter
Janes, D. (2015). Early Victorian moral anxiety and the queer legacy of the eighteenth-century gothic revival. In Material religion in modern Britain : the spirit of things

When 'perverts' were religious: the Protestant sexualisation of asceticism in nineteenth-century Britain, India and Ireland (2015)
Journal Article
Janes. (2015). When 'perverts' were religious: the Protestant sexualisation of asceticism in nineteenth-century Britain, India and Ireland. Cultural and Social History, 425-439. https://doi.org/10.2752/147800414X13893661072843

Anti-Catholic polemics from the mid-nineteenth century made frequent comparisons between religious practices in Britain, Ireland and India. The supposed atrocities taking place at locations such as Lough Dearg in County Donegal and ‘Juggernaut’ (Jagg... Read More about When 'perverts' were religious: the Protestant sexualisation of asceticism in nineteenth-century Britain, India and Ireland.

“Heroes” and “villains” of world history across cultures (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). “Heroes” and “villains” of world history across cultures. PloS one, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.+pone.0115641

Emergent properties of global political culture were examined using data from the World History Survey (WHS) involving 6,902 university students in 37 countries evaluating 40 figures from world history. Multidimensional scaling and factor analysis te... Read More about “Heroes” and “villains” of world history across cultures.

John Foxe and British attitudes to martyrdom after the French Revolution (2014)
Book Chapter
Janes, D. (2014). John Foxe and British attitudes to martyrdom after the French Revolution. In Martyrdom and terrorism: pre-modern to contemporary perspectives (179-196)

Martyrdom and terrorism: pre-modern to contemporary perspectives (2014)
Book
Janes, D. (2014). Martyrdom and terrorism: pre-modern to contemporary perspectives

The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early Victorian satires on religion (2014)
Journal Article
Janes. (2014). The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early Victorian satires on religion. Victorian Periodicals Review, 66-86. https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2014.0006

Satires on various aspects of contemporary religion are frequently found in early Victorian editions of Punch. The more strident forms of Protestant evangelicalism in the 1840s and Roman Catholic revivalism in the early 1850s came in for particular a... Read More about The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early Victorian satires on religion.

Jewish Circumcision as a Symptom of Collective Psychosis (2014)
Journal Article
Nehushtan, Y. (2014). Jewish Circumcision as a Symptom of Collective Psychosis. Human Rights, 22 - 53

The case of Geert Wilders: Multiculturalism, Islam, and Identity in the UK (2012)
Journal Article
Poole. (2012). The case of Geert Wilders: Multiculturalism, Islam, and Identity in the UK. Journal of Religion in Europe, 162 - 191. https://doi.org/10.1163/187489212X639181

This article aims to show how in the current political climate in the UK debates about multiculturalism, religion, and identity, in relation to Muslims, have played out in the public sphere through an examination of British news media coverage of the... Read More about The case of Geert Wilders: Multiculturalism, Islam, and Identity in the UK.

Change and Continuity in the Representation of British Muslims Before and After 9/11: The UK Context (2011)
Journal Article
Poole. (2011). Change and Continuity in the Representation of British Muslims Before and After 9/11: The UK Context. Global Media Journal, 49 - 62

9/11 is often marked out as a significant event in the current political and
historical context in that it signalled a discernable shift to a new politics
categorised in specific “Western” countries by the “war on terror”. Through an
examination o... Read More about Change and Continuity in the Representation of British Muslims Before and After 9/11: The UK Context.

Walsingham in literature and culture from the Middle Ages to modernity (2010)
Book
(2010). Walsingham in literature and culture from the Middle Ages to modernity

Victorian reformation: the fight over idolatry in the Church of England, 1840-1860 (2009)
Book
(2009). Victorian reformation: the fight over idolatry in the Church of England, 1840-1860

Shopping for Jesus : faith in marketing in the USA (2008)
Book
(2008). Shopping for Jesus : faith in marketing in the USA

This volume explores the connections between faith, the presentation of belief, and the processes by which it is sold and consumed.

The application of business experience and expertise to the administration on non-Wesleyan Methodism in the period 1797-1850 (2000)
Thesis
Anderson, J. H. (2000). The application of business experience and expertise to the administration on non-Wesleyan Methodism in the period 1797-1850. (Thesis). Keele University

A characteristic feature of Methodism in the post Wesley era was the high degree of lay participation in the administration of the new Methodist movements which came into being from the 1790s onwards. In some cases, this was the very reason for their... Read More about The application of business experience and expertise to the administration on non-Wesleyan Methodism in the period 1797-1850.

English nonconformist home missions 1796-1901
Thesis
Tidball, D. J. (1982). English nonconformist home missions 1796-1901

This thesis examines an important dimension of nineteenth century English Nonconformist life, namely, their missionary endeavours as directed towards the home population. Whilst recognising the significance of other recent studies on the periodic phe... Read More about English nonconformist home missions 1796-1901.

The appearance of God: A defense of the argument from religious experience
Thesis
Burns, A. (2016). The appearance of God: A defense of the argument from religious experience

Should we trust religious experience? Discussions of religious experience in analytic philosophy have, over the last fifty years, focussed primarily on whether such experiences can serve as non-inferential evidence for the existence of God. Richard S... Read More about The appearance of God: A defense of the argument from religious experience.