Linda Woodhead
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Linda Jane Pauline Woodhead is a British sociologist of religion and scholar of religious studies at King's College London Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She is best known for her work on religious change since the 1980s, and for initiating public debates about faith. She has been described by Matthew Taylor, head of the Royal Society of Arts, as "one of the world's leading experts on religion".
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Published Works
- The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality (2005) (717)
- A Sociology of Religious Emotion (2010) (189)
- Religion in modern times : an interpretive anthology (2000) (135)
- Spirituality, gender and expressive selfhood. (2008) (128)
- Religion and change in modern Britain (2012) (126)
- Five concepts of religion (2011) (120)
- Gender Differences in Religious Practice and Significance (2007) (88)
- Peter Berger and the Study of Religion (2001) (68)
- Gendering Secularization Theory (2008) (67)
- The Rise of ‘No Religion’ in Britain:the emergence of a new cultural majority (2016) (64)
- Religions in the modern world : traditions and transformations (2002) (49)
- Feminism and the Sociology of Religion: From Gender‐blindness to Gendered Difference (2007) (44)
- Chapter Two. Real Religion And Fuzzy Spirituality? Taking Sides In The Sociology Of Religion (2010) (44)
- The Rise of “No Religion”: Towards an Explanation (2017) (43)
- Christianity: A Very Short Introduction (2004) (39)
- Everyday Lived Islam in Europe (2013) (38)
- Congregational Studies in the UK: Christianity in a Post-Christian Context (2004) (34)
- Intensified Religious Pluralism and De-differentiation: the British Example (2016) (33)
- Predicting Religion : Christian, Secular and Alternative Futures (2005) (33)
- Introduction: Consumerism as the Ethos of Consumer Society (2016) (32)
- "Religion or belief":identifying issues and priorities (2010) (29)
- An Introduction to Christianity (2004) (28)
- God and human dignity. (2009) (27)
- Wilkinson, Sue, and Kitzinger, Celia (eds.), Heterosexuality; A Feminism and Psychology Reader (1994) (23)
- Post-Christian spiritualities (1993) (23)
- Why So Many Women in Holistic Spirituality (2007) (23)
- Acknowledging a Global Shift: A Primer for Thinking about Religion in Consumer Societies (2013) (22)
- Secular privilege, religious disadvantage. (2008) (21)
- Homeless minds today (2001) (19)
- Diana, the making of a media saint (1999) (18)
- Old, new and emerging paradigms in the sociological study of religion. (2009) (17)
- ‘Because I’m Worth It’: Religion and Women’s Changing Lives in the West (2016) (17)
- Gendering Secularisation Theory (2005) (17)
- Liberal religion and illiberal secularism (2013) (17)
- Introduction: Religion et société de consummation/ Religion in Consumer Society (2011) (15)
- Religion and Brexit: populism and the Church of England (2018) (14)
- Spiritualising the Sacred: A Critique of Feminist Theology (1997) (14)
- Religions and social progress: critical assessments and creative partnerships (2018) (14)
- Theology and the Fragmentation of the Self (1999) (13)
- That Was The Church That Was: How the Church of England Lost the English People (2016) (13)
- The muslim veil controversy and European values. (2009) (13)
- Congregational studies:taking stock (2004) (12)
- Reinventing Christianity : nineteenth century contexts. (2001) (11)
- Women's Voices. Essays in Contemporary Feminist Theology (1992) (10)
- Diana and the Religion of the Heart (1999) (10)
- Gen Z, Explained (2021) (8)
- New Forms of Public Religion: Spirituality in Global Civil Society (2013) (7)
- Spirituality and Christianity: The Unfolding of a Tangled Relationship (2011) (7)
- Sex and Secularisation. (2007) (6)
- Conclusion: Prayer as Changing the Subject (2017) (6)
- Hinduism: Judaism, Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism: post-war settlements (2012) (6)
- Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society (2020) (6)
- The turn to life in contemporary theology and spirituality. (2001) (6)
- Human Dignity in the Absence of Agency (2006) (5)
- Spirituality and Emotions: Making a Room of One’s Own (2016) (5)
- Women and religion. (2002) (5)
- What People Really Believe About Society, Politics and Religious Institutions (2014) (5)
- Religions in the Modern World (1st edition):Traditions and Transformations (2002) (5)
- Religion and Emotion (2018) (4)
- Introduction: Prayer in Religion and Spirituality (2013) (4)
- Choosing a faith school in Leicester: admissions criteria, diversity and choice (2018) (3)
- Love and Justice (1992) (3)
- A Sociology of Prayer (2015) (3)
- War paint : Miss Elizabeth Arden and Madame Helena Rubinstein : their lives, their times, their rivalry (2004) (3)
- Religions in the Modern World 2e (2009) (3)
- The impact of feminism on the sociology of religion : from gender-blindness to gendered difference. (2001) (2)
- Trends in Church Life: The Spiritual Revolution (2005) (2)
- God, gender and identity. (2003) (2)
- On The Incompatibility Between Christianity And Holistic Spirituality (2006) (2)
- Teaching Theology as a Foreign Language (1998) (2)
- Veritatis Splendor: Some Editorial Reflections (1994) (2)
- Prayer in Religion and Spirituality (2013) (2)
- Religion’s Changing Form and Relation to the State since 1989 (2020) (2)
- Learning from buildings (2015) (2)
- Religious Minorities: Judaism, Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism (2012) (1)
- Everyday Lived Islam in Britain (2013) (1)
- Truth and Deceit in Institutions (2021) (1)
- Lifting the veil on religion and identity. (2007) (1)
- Feminist theorlogy out of the ghetto (1999) (1)
- Portrait: Eileen Barker (2018) (1)
- Kendal revisited:The study of spirituality then and now (2018) (1)
- Religious Emotion, Late Modern Society, and Culture (2010) (1)
- Predicting Religion: Four Case Studies (2002) (1)
- Intensified Religious Pluralism and De-differentiation: the British Example (2016) (1)
- Christianity for and Against the Family: a Response To Nicholas Peter Harvey (1996) (1)
- Sophia or gnosis? Christianity and new age spirituality. (1999) (1)
- Questioning the Bishops' Guidance on Same-Sex Marriage (2014) (1)
- The kendal project : testing the 'spiritual revolution' thesis. (2003) (1)
- A Narrow View - Failing to Understand the Past (1995) (1)
- Eros and the Sacred . By Paul Avis. London, SPCK, 1989. Pp. 166. £7.95. (1991) (1)
- Religion and Brexit (2020) (1)
- Introduction : Religion in global societies (2020) (1)
- Religion and past modernities (1999) (1)
- A very short introduction to christianity (2004) (1)
- Feminist Theology: A Reader . By Ann Loades. London, SPCK, 1990. Pp. ix + 340. £9.95. (1992) (1)
- Kendal, Cumbria : a spiritual laboratory (2005) (1)
- EHRC Research Report 48 ‘Religion or belief’: Identifying issues and priorities (2009) (1)
- Religion and gender (2016) (0)
- The Idea of Christian Charity: A Critique of Some Contemporary Conceptions . By Gordon Graham. (Library ofReligious Philosophy). University of Notre Dame Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 190. No price. (1993) (0)
- Editorial board (2000) (0)
- The Power of Religious Emotion (2010) (0)
- 5. Modern Christianity: the West (2005) (0)
- Livres Reçus/Books Received (2011) (0)
- Secularization and De-Secularization: Peter L. Berger (2003) (0)
- 2. The signs and symbols of Christianity (2005) (0)
- Twentieth-century fortunes (2004) (0)
- Religions in the Modern World (revised 2nd edition):Traditions and Transformations (2009) (0)
- Christianity Origins: Primitive and ‘Western’ History (2001) (0)
- Afterword : To the vagina triangle and beyond! (2020) (0)
- Acknowledgements, Resources and Further Information (2014) (0)
- Focus Groups (2021) (0)
- Book Review: Bodies, Voices, Lives (1999) (0)
- Book Reviews : In Good Company: the church as polis, by Stanley Hauerwas. University of Notre Dame Press, 1995. xv + 268 pp. hb. US$29.95 (1997) (0)
- A megachurch brand story in Indonesia (2021) (0)
- Editorial board (2000) (0)
- The tangled relationship between healthcare and religion in the UK (2013) (0)
- Religion and Politics: Jeffrey Haynes (2003) (0)
- The World’s Parliament of Religions and the Rise of Alternative Spirituality (2019) (0)
- The Gods of Modern Spirituality (2021) (0)
- How Anglicans tipped the Brexit vote (2018) (0)
- Bibliographie internationale de Sociologie des Religions 2010/ International Bibliography of Sociology of Religions 2010 (2011) (0)
- Family and Society (2019) (0)
- Christianity according to its Interpreters (1997) (0)
- Sacred Practices of Everyday Life Conference (0)
- Studying religion and modernity. (2002) (0)
- An Introduction to Christianity: Churches of east and west in the early Middle Ages (2004) (0)
- An Introduction to Christianity: Introduction (2004) (0)
- Why do Religious and Spiritual Movements Grow (2005) (0)
- An Introduction to Christianity: Catholic and Orthodox negotiations with modernity (2004) (0)
- An Introduction to Christianity: Notes (2004) (0)
- Simone Weil's Conversation with the Bhagavad Gītā (1987) (0)
- Can We Trust the Church? (2019) (0)
- Book Review: Mike King Postsecularism: The Hidden Challenge to Extremism James Clarke and Co, Cambridge 2009, £25 Pbk (ISBN-10 0227172477, ISBN-13: 9780227172476279), 324 pp (2011) (0)
- Editorial (1998) (0)
- 3. Church and Biblical Christianity (2005) (0)
- An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices . By Peter Harvey. Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xxii + 374. £10.95. (1993) (0)
- Theology: The Trouble It's In (2018) (0)
- Convergences between Christianity and New Age: The Turn to Life (2000) (0)
- After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings are Shaping the Future of American Religion, Robert Wuthnow. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ (2007), , 298 pp., $29.95, ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12765-1 (2008) (0)
- Incoming Books for Review (2010) (0)
- Getting God by Reflecting (2018) (0)
- 6. Christianity beyond the West (2005) (0)
- 1. Jesus: the God-man (2005) (0)
- Emotion: A Relational View (2010) (0)
- Neither religious or secular : the British situation and it's implications for religious-state relations (2013) (0)
- Book reviews (2008) (0)
- Muslim women’s participation in the Veil Controversy : Austria and the UK compared (2013) (0)
- 4. Mystical Christianity (2005) (0)
- Christianity: Linda Woodhead (2003) (0)
- interview with Terhi Utriainen (2022) (0)
- Apocalyptic, World-Repair, Divination (2021) (0)
- An Introduction to Christianity: Christendom : the western church in power (2004) (0)
- Introduction: Studying Religion and Modernity: Linda Woodhead (2003) (0)
- 7. A woman's religion? (2005) (0)
- Conclusion: A Values Profile of Britain (2014) (0)
- Mary Eberstadt, How the West Really Lost God (2016) (0)
- RELIGIOUS BELONGING TODAY: STRATEGY AND VALUES OF OLD-BELIEVERS Among religious communities in modern Russia, keeping their own standards and values, to a large extent contradicting the faith of an ethnic group and of the state, we can distinguish Ural Old-Believers (2016) (0)
- Dynamics of Religious Emotion II: Disconnections of Self, Society, and Symbols (2010) (0)
- Editorial board (2000) (0)
- An Introduction to Christianity: How Christianity came to power (2004) (0)
- Beyond the veil and the goddess (2005) (0)
- The government’s changes to faith schools side with hardline religion (2016) (0)
- Can women love Stanley Hauerwas? : pursuing an embodied theology. (2000) (0)
- In part II, Brock develops his constructive proposal for forming and practising the Christian moral life in light of the technological background (2013) (0)
- An Introduction to Christianity: Protestant pathways into the modern world (2004) (0)
- Counter-cultural ideals and practices of the Nordic Ting Community (2014) (0)
- An Introduction to Christianity: Chronology (2004) (0)
- What is religion ? In a recent book (0)
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Public Theology in a Post-Secular Age, written by Elaine Graham (2017) (0)
- Book Reviews (2009) (0)
- The Reformation in context (2004) (0)
- Portrait (2018) (0)
- Spirituality: public or private? (2009) (0)
- 'Our Choice, Our Freedom, Our Right':Muslim Women's Participation in the Controversy over Veiling (2011) (0)
- Sociological approaches to studying the global and local context of congregations (2005) (0)
- Secularism and secularization (2016) (0)
- Religion in Africa: Charles Gore (2003) (0)
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