Auteur: Christopher R. Cotter

Christopher R. Cotter is Founding Editor and Podcast Co-Host at the Religious Studies Project, and has recently submitted his doctoral dissertation at Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses upon discourses on ‘religion’, ‘non-religion’ and ‘the secular’, and the ensuing theoretical implications for Religious Studies. He is co-editor of Social Identities between the Sacred and the Secular (Ashgate, 2013), and After World Religions: Reconstructing Religious Studies (Routledge, 2016). He is also Co-Director at the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network and Honorary Treasurer of the British Association for the Study of Religions.  Philip Andrew Quadrio is a philosopher and criminologist, based at the University of Sydney, who works on crime theory, subjectivity, political philosophy, philosophy of religion and history of philosophy. He is author of Towards a Theory of Organic Relations: Social Theory in Hegel’s Early Writings, and has edited several collections including Politics and Religion in the New Century, The Relation of Philosophy to Religion Today, and Infinitely Demanding: Simon Critchley’s Neo-Anarchism. Philip is a former President of the Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association. Jonathan Tuckett is a phenomenologist specialising in philosophical anthropology, intersubjectivity and religion. His work looks at the ways people are deemed « religious » as a means of exclusion from norm and knowledge production. He has worked as a teaching fellow for Stirling and Edinburgh. He is currently an independent researcher focusing on what is counted as « social science » based on « who » is included and how this has changed due the Research Excellence Framework and publishing industry.