This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped
by aspects of global city dynamics. Theoretically grounded and empirically informed …

This chapter focuses on British adults who identify explicitly as atheist, a conscious position
defined by a denial of belief in god. The seminal claim by the New Atheists and their …

In this text, I will look at 'alternative'stand-up comedy as an example of complex verbal art
exhibiting multiple levels of performative reflexivity (Turner 1979). 1 Originating with a …