Religion and Change in Australia (PDF)

Adam Possamai is Professor of Sociology and Deputy Dean at the School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen academic books, 5 novels, and close to 100 refereed articles and book chapters. He is a past president of the International Sociological Association's Committee 22 on the Sociology of Religion and of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion. He has been a visiting professor at the City University of New York and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His latest books are the Sage Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion (edited with Anthony Blasi, Sage, 2020), The Social Scientific Study of Exorcism in Christianity (edited with Giuseppe Giordan, Springer, 2020), The I-zation of Society, Religion, and Neoliberal Post-Secularism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Sociology of Exorcism in Late Modernity (with Giuseppe Giordan, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and the short stories collection Perles Noires (Rivière Blanche, 2021).

David Tittensor is a Lecturer in Studies of Religion in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University, Melbourne. His research interests are Muslim movements, Turkish politics and society, and religion and development with a focus on Islam. He is the author of The House of Service: The Gülen Movement and Islam's Third Way (Oxford University Press, 2014), co-editor (with Matthew Clarke) of Islam and Development: Exploring the Invisible Aid Economy (Routledge, 2014), co-editor (with Fethi Mansouri) of The Politics of Women and Migration in the Global South (Palgrave, 2017), and is a series editor for Muslims in Global Societies (Springer).