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New College, Edinburgh
Jugendfeier: a secular youth rite of passage ritual?, 2010
London School of Economics
Double profanity; or, Towards the explicit: eighteen anthroposophists and a researcher, 1981
Postgraduate School of S.E. European Studies, University of Bradford
Tourism as a sacred journey, 1987
The sacralisation of the nation, and the secularisation of the Churches: reflections on the place of religion in Yugoslavia, 1987
Kosovo: the heavenly and the earthly crown, 1991
Atrocity as sacrament: notes towards a sociology of damnation, 1996
Infinite Justice: implicitly religious responses to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 2002
Art and Spirituality: a personal exploration, 2009
London, Ontario
The relationship between implicit religion and liturgy, 2011
Dept of Art History & Theory, University of Chester
The religious dimension of compulsive buying, 2008
The religion implicit in the paintings of Francis Bacon, 2009
Royal United Hospital, Bath
Issues around death in hospital, 1998
Director of Training, Southwell Diocese
Salvation in art, 1992
Dept of Religion Studies, University of Winnipeg
The virtues, in a technological society, 1987
The centrality of the concept of implicit religion for Religious Studies, 1993
The religion of nature, and the nature of religion, 1999
The centrality of the concept of implicit religion for Religious Studies, Middlesex 1999
Centre for the Study of Implicit Religion and Contemporary Spirituality
The implicit religion of contemporary society: a plea for its study, 1978
The implicit religion of a public house, RE 1983
A kind of Christianity: the implicit religion of a residential parish, Winterbourne 1982
Implicit religion in contemporary society, and its implications for Christian ministry and discipleship, Winterbourne 1996
Implicit religion: whither and whence?, 1997
Introducing implicit religion, Middlesex Seminar 1998
Living with Implicit Religion, 1967-2007, 2007
Eastington Rectory, Gloucestershire
Reinforced concrete: a profanity?, Winterbourne 1990
Practical Theology, University of Cardiff
Models of ministry, and popular expectations, Winterbourne 1995
Dept of Sociology, London School of Economics
Implicit religion: social theory and social practice; or “You don’t get Evangelicals in Marxist boots”, 1979
Response to Meerten ter Borg, Cambridge 1998
Homerton College, Cambridge
Spiritual education and values development in multi-faith contexts, RE 1998
Kyoto University, Japan
Religious experiences in everyday Japanese life, 2010
Dept of Sociology, University of Warwick
Are new religious movements, new social movements?, 1992
Dept of Sociology, Texas Tech University
The sacralisation of political ideology: implicit religion in the American Frontier tradition, 1994
The Gospel and Our Culture project, Selly Oak
Recovering scripture, Winterbourne 1994
Churchill College, Cambridge
Christs story and ours: the relationship of the Gospel and personal experience,, RE 1985
Poole High School, Dorset
Affective learning in the classroom, RE 1998
Spirituality in education: spiritual development in schools, Winterbourne 1999
University of Warwick Business School
The elevation of work: pastoral power and the New Age work ethic, 2003
Director of Education, Diocese of Bristol
Spirituality in the workplace, and its consequences for the Church, 2003
Dept of Religion, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Psycho-therapy as religion: pros and cons, 1989
Dept of Sociology, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
The Canadian National Religious Survey: the unfocussed majority, 1982
Fragmented gods: explicit and implicit religion in Canada and beyond, 1988
Do data matter? Reflections on the role of research in identifying implicit and explicit religion, 2007
The Future as an Allusion: What Social Forecasts Tell Us About Explicit and Implicit Religion, 2013
Dept of Sociology, University of New England, Armidale, Australia
A critical appraisal of Roofs local/cosmopolitan theory of religious plausibility, in the light of Australian and British data, 1985
Dept of Sociology, Tennessee State University
What was implicit in Pauls First Letter to the Thessalonians?, 1997
Independent scholar
The importance of monastic values for modern life: an enquiry into religious and psychological sources of modern values, 2007
Professor of Non-institutional Religion, University of Leiden
Charisma today, 1988
Implicit religiosity and death,, 1994
Implicit religion and inter-faith dialogue: an empirical perspective, Cambridge 1998
Implicit religion and power, 2000
mplicit religion, work ethics and management, 2002
Implicit religion in business, 2004
Rituals and implicit religion, 2005
Transcendence and implicit religion, 2006
Implicit religion in Holland: a silent march, football mania, and a pop-funeral manifestation, 2007
Privatisation and de-institutionalisation, 2009
Some remarks about Max Weber, 2011
Transcendence: religious and non-religious, 2013
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Implicit religion and inter faith dialogue in ethical perspective, Cambridge 1998
The Open University, Milton Keynes
Folkloristic studies and the study of folk religion, 1990
St Gerard Mojella in Newfoundland: the manipulation of devotion, 1993
More of the same? Christianity, vernacular religion, and alternative spirituality, in Glastonbury, 1999
Implicitly and explicitly claiming and creating sacred space, 2004
Dept of Religion, University of Vermont, Burlington
A phenomenological enquiry into the nature of implicit religion and its relationship to loric power with reference to the holy wells of Ireland, 1993
Christian Research Association, London
The unchurched and fringe Churchmembers in England and Wales today, 1985
The British Churches today, Winterbourne 1988
Church leadership, 1990s-style, 1990
The English Church Census of 15 October 1989, 1991
Who goes where? The English Church Census of 1989,, Winterbourne 1991
Priorities, perspectives, and principles, Winterbourne 1993
Reaching and keeping teenagers, Winterbourne 1995
The Christian faith, life-style, and image, Winterbourne 1996
Christianity in global perspective, Winterbourne 1999
Nominalism reconceived, 1999
Implicit religion in the 1998 English Church Attendance Survey,, 2001
What the 1998 English Church Attendance Survey reveals about who goes to Church, Winterbourne 2002
Key issues in todays Church, Winterbourne 2003
Implicit religion: 72% Christian, 8% attendance, 2004
The “nominal” element in implicit religion, 2007
A comparison of the personality differences between male and female churchgoers, and non-churchgoers, 2009
What it means to be British, and how it might be changing, 2011
Facts, funerals, and the future of religion in the UK, 2013
London the exception to "the exceptional case" that disproves the rule, 2015
Leeds Metropolitan University
The world of healthcare chaplaincy in the 21st century, 2005
Centre for the Critical Study of Religion, Education and Society, Westminster College, Oxford
Religious experience: its boundaries, and their definition, 1997
The psychology of religious experience, 1999
Religious differences in relation to their psychological and other similarities, 2000
Precentor, Coventry Cathedral
Christian spirituality and Urban Priority Areas, Winterbourne 1996
University of Leicester
Implicit religion and poetic motif: religious orientation in Keats “Endymion”, 1980
Secular death: the experience of power, 1983
Dept of Pastoral Studies, Lincoln Theological College
The implicit religion of Anglican clergy, Winterbourne 1994
Westhill College, Selly Oak, Birmingham
Implicit religion and the social context of Pauline theology, 1987
Dept of Sociology, University of York
Natural constellations of belief, 1981
The other Protestant Ethic, 1986
Dean, Bristol Cathedral
The religion of the Establishment, Winterbourne 1996
Hartford Seminary, Connecticut
Mainline Protestant identity: has it a future?, 1988
Ripon College, Cuddesdon
The theology of hymns, Winterbourne 1998
Vicar of Exning, Chaplain of Newmarket General Hospital
Making the implicit, explicit, in local Christian leadership, Winterbourne 2000
Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Richmond
Dept of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work, Texas Tech University
Abolitionism as implicit religion: a case study in collective conscience, 1995
Dept of Sociology, Texas Tech University
The relationship of implicit religion to church and state arrangements: implications for implicit religion, 1983
Pearlygate: televangelism and implicit religion, 1988
Stepping to redemption: twelve-step groups as implicit religion, 1992
From implicit to explicit religion: conversion to Russian Orthodoxy in the US, 1993
See also: Robert Beckley, 1994
Marlborough College, Wiltshire
Religious symbolism in art, RE 1984
Dept of Sociology, University of Rome I
Diffused religion: theory and practice, 1985
Dept of Social Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Folk religion in a North Yorkshire fishing village, 1978
Funerary practice and belief in Staithes, 1979
Baptist College, Bristol
Nationality and the Kingdom, Winterbourne 1988
St Anne’s Church, Eastville, Bristol
War, Remembrance, and the cult of the dead,, Winterbourne 1991
Dept of Anthropology, University of Durham
The aesthetics of Swedish Evangelicalism, 1994
Faculty of Sport, Health & Social Care, University of Gloucestershire
The wheel turns: sport and faithcommunities in the UK, 2008
Case-studies in sport and faith, 2009
School of Psychology, University of Ulster
Dept of Psychology, Glyndwr University
Through the lens of implicit religion: creativity & spirituality in coping, 2010
Study of Religions, Oxford Brookes University
A new visibility?: well-being culture, religion, and spirituality, 2009
Schools Adviser, Bristol Diocese
Nurturing the spirit of the child, in school and church, Winterbourne 2002
University of Oxford
Invisible religion and the middle class, 1980
BBC Multi Faith Bureau, London
Implicit religion and inter faith dialogue: a practical perspective, Cambridge 1998
Sub-dean, Guildford Cathedral
Some implications of folk religion for the Churchs ministry, Winterbourne 1982
Dept of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town
Work as a sacrament of participation in the faith reality of Western implicit religion, 1997
Dept of Religious Studies, University of Lancaster
Distinguishing the implicitly religious and the aesthetic, 1978
The articulation of the sense of the self and identity, 1979
Dept of Sociology, University of Exeter
“Faith in the City” and implicit religion (with Graham Howes), 1986
Diffused religion and French Protestantism, 1686-1986, 1987
Dept of Sociology, University of Reading
Ethnic jokes: implicit religious values and implicit religious identity, 1991
Dept of Theology, University of Nottingham
Clerical self-absolution through the notion of folk religion?, 1982
Clergy, people, and orthodoxy, Winterbourne 1992
Implicit religion and inter faith dialogue in human perspective, Cambridge 1998
Rural Church Project, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester
The Rural Church Project, Winterbourne 1992
Dept of Religious Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Lapidary texts: Europes War Memorials as a liturgy fit for heroes, 1993
Acts of remembrance, rites of oblivion, 1995
Methodist Church of Great Britain
Implicit religion, English style, Winterbourne 1988
Anglican Church of Canada
The Eastern Cree, as a spiritual reality, 2009
Foregiveness: is it all it’s cracked up to be?, 2012
Dept of Archeology & Classical Studies, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Reality and Possibility, 2011
Tilbury University, Netherlands
Tintin as a Catholic hero: how Catholic values in a comic book went underground, 2014
Playing with Events, 2015
Applied Theology, University of Kent, UK
Christmas as a site of implicit religiosity, 2013
Centre for Media Studies, Portsmouth University
The sense of beauty: visualising poetic experiences through filmmaking, 2008
Dept of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The sacred as surrogate: notes on implicit a-religion, 1991
Horfield Methodist Church, Bristol
Religion and body language, RE 1984
PsychAssociates Group, New York
Practice of Clinical Psychology as a Form of Implicit Religion, 2013
Clinical Psychologists practice their profession as a religion, 2015
Abraham Moss Comprehensive School, Manchester
Residual religion in an urban community: a search for secular man, 1978
Dept of Social Policy & Social Work, York University
Implicit religion and social responsibility, 1999
The implicit religions behind Christian social responsibility, Winterbourne 2000
Institute of Philosophy, University of Nijmegen
Primitive culture as focus of implicit religion, 1983
Implicit religion and the place of inter-religious dialogue, 1986
The priority of the holy: some remarks on the distinction between the sacred and the holy, 1989
Pluralism and balance as a key to implicit religion: the importance of the divine for the construction of religious man in the thought of William James, 1990
Implicit religion and the meaning of religious experience, 1994
Object and reality in the study of religion, 1996
Implicit religion and inter-faith dialogue: a philosophical perspective, Cambridge 1998
The quest for myth as a key to implicit religion, 1999
Difficulties in discerning religious phenomena, 2000
The critical potential of the concept of Implicit Religion, 2002
Why (and when) implicit?, 2006
The Tenacity of the God-problem: The Notion of God in Implicit Religion, 2011
The Meaning of Meaninglessness: remarks on the religious ramifications of ritual activities, 2015
Southwark Cathedral
The next century: religious or secular?, Winterbourne 1993
Chaplaincy & Religious Studies, Middlesex University
Student spirituality: the contemporary scene, 1999
Canterbury Diocese, Church of England
Perceiving through similitude, 2014
The Children and Worldviews project, Chichester College of H.E.
Children’s constructions of reality: conceptual expressions of implicit religion, 1995
Children and adults: what’s the connection?, Winterbourne 1998
Oxford University, Extramural Dept.
Speaking in other tongues: Pentecost re-visited, 2009
Dept of Education, Reading College, Berkshire
Implicit religion as the ultimate mind-map, 2001
Westminster College, Oxford
Football as implicit religion, 1996
Current implicit religion, as shown in the response to disasters, Winterbourne 1998
Dept of Sociology, University of Maine at Orano
The Church as metaphor for the nation, 1984
University of
Enuma elis, Creation and Destruction: life as a product of death, 2012
Dept of Religious Studies, Open University
Hindu approaches to death and bereavement: patterns of change in Britain, 1994
Spirituality in healthcare, Winterbourne 1999
Lexington Theological Seminary, Kentucky
Implicit religion in the Southern Appalachian Highlands, 1995
Welsh National Centre for Religious Education, Bangor
Personality and religion: measurement or muddle?, 1981
Rural Anglicanism, Winterbourne 1986
Responding to Peter Brierley, 2009
The association between suicidal ideation, explicit religion and implicit religion: an empirical enquiry among 13-15 year-old adolescents, 2012
Welsh National Centre for Religious Education, Bangor
“Implicit Religion” and “ordinary theology”: an empirical investigation, 2005
Implicit religion, explicit religion, and purpose in life: an empirical enquiry among 13- to 15-year-old adolescents, 2011
Welsh National Centre for Religious Education, Bangor
The unconventional beliefs of conventional churchgoers: the matter of luck, 2006
Introducing the Belief in Luck Index (BILI): interpreting implicit religion and alternative spiritualities among adolescents, 2007
Attitudes towards Christianity and New Age beliefs among undergraduates in Slovenia: complimentary or contradictory worldviews, 2008
See also: Mandy Robbins; Emyr Williams
Dept of Religious Studies, University of South Carolina
Signs of thanatocracy: a critique of American funerary practices, 1981
Religion and football: the cult of the fighting gamecock, 1984
Implicit religion and inter faith dialogue in historical perspective, Cambridge 1985
Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, Loyola University of Chicago
Religious experience and everyday life, 1982
Dept of Religious Studies and Social Ethics, St Martins College, Lancaster
Children and Religious Education: a psychological approach, RE 1982
Sciences de Réligion, Université de Québec à Montrèal
Simply religion: the relevance of religious studies to contemporary culture, 2003
Walden University, Minneapolis
Implicit religion and the philosophy of peace, 2004
A gifting reality, 2006
Dept of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology, New College, Edinburgh
Theologians and folk religion, 1982
Dept of Sociology, University of Warwick
Current implicit religion, and current chaplaincy provision in prisons, Winterbourne 1998
Dept of Sociology, University of Padua
Towards a common-sense religion? The young and religion in Italy, 2010
Studies in Personality and Religion, University of Waterloo, Ontario
Implicit religion in the psychology of religion, 2002
Implicit religion in psychotherapy, 2004
The Ritualization of Consumer Capitalism: Catherine Bell’s Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice in the Age of Starbucks, 2015
Institute of Education, University of Warwick
Parental belief and parental engagement in children’s learning, 2011
Dept of Business and Social Studies, Bradford College
Perceptions of time, death and religion, 1981
Implicit religion: an empirical approach, RE 1982
St John’s College, Oxford
Popular Hinduism and popular Christianity in India, Winterbourne 1989
Christian Publicity Organisation, Brighton
The underlying religion of the Sun, Winterbourne 1990
The living faith of the media: the worldview of the Sun newspaper, 1992
(formerly) Potchefstroom University, South Africa
The search for health as implicit religion, 1987
The implicit religion of the search for health, Winterbourne 1989
Notes on the religiosity of “scientific” methods of psychotherapy, 1987
Madness and theology: the implicit religion of King Lear, 2000
The implicit religion of “Crem’ funerals, 2001
Group spirituality, 2003
What islands say, 2008
Playing games with death, 2009
Implicit soulfulness: a dramatic perspective, 2013
Storied perfection, 2014
What I Tell You Three Times is True, 2015
Dept of Religion, History, Philosophy & Classics, Westminster College, Pa
The celluloid campfire: implicit religion and film, 2008
University of Mexico
The implicit religion of the current Development process, 2006
Department of Religious Studies, Saint Mary’s University
Mindfulness: an implicit religion, 2015
Glyndŵr University
The Appeal of Celtic Spirituality in a Secular Age, 2013
Explicit and implicit religious interest in Celtic Christianity: An empirical survey, 2014
Religions & Education, University of Warwick
Feeding the spirit: food, diet, and spirituality, 1994
Non-religious meaning-systems and the notion of Implicit Religion, 1998
Dept of Religious Education, St Martins College, Lancaster
Affective learning in the classroom, RE 1988
Dept of Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
Implicit religion and politics: the American case, 1983
Implicit religion from below, 2006
Dept of Sociology, University of Bristol
A sociological look at religion, explicit and implicit, Winterbourne 1982
The implicit religion of some housewives, Winterbourne 1994
Birkbeck College, London
Law as implicit religion, 1999
formerly, BBC correspondent
Early indications of a Diana cult, 2007
Hiding the explicit: interfaith dialogues as implicit religion, 2008
The implicit religion of contemporary conceptual art, 2009
Climate change and acts of God, 2014
The implicit religion of Body Art, 2015
School of Psychology, University of Leeds
Secular and spiritual Forgiveness Therapies for people in addiction-recovery, 2000
Hartcliffe Vicarage, Bristol
The implicit religiosity of Outer Housing Estates, Winterbourne 2001
Centre for the Study of Human Relations, University of Nottingham
The Religious Experience Research Project, in relation to schools, RE 1985
Affective learning in the classroom, RE 1988
The implicit spirituality of children, RE 1997
Social Surveys (Gallup)
A comparative study of values in Japan, the United States and Britain, 1983
Clerical and popular beliefs in 1982, 1984 and 1986, Winterbourne 1986
Dept of Sociology, Covenant College, Georgia
Humour as implicit religion, 1992
Dept of Religious Studies, University of Lancaster
Implicit religion: ineffability, 1979
Up Hatherley Vicarage, Cheltenham
The new religious consciousness, Winterbourne 1986
Institute of Government, University of Georgia
Spirituality in mediation: notes from the edge, 1996
Secular Transcendence and the Primacy of Believing: Believing Beyond Religion, 2011
Critical believing and an implicit secularity: what price a secular Jesus?, 2012
Churches Planning Officer, Telford
The emergence, or otherwise, of the civic Church in English new towns,, 1989
Carlisle Diocese
The prayers of the un-faith-full, 2001
Dept of Religion, University of Florida
American civil religion as implicit religion, 1983
Broadoak School, Weston-super-Mare
Civil religion in a comprehensive school, Winterbourne 1985
Dept of Sociology, University of Surrey
The network dependency of personal religious belief systems, 1998
Dept. of Social Work, Hull University
Spirituality in contemporary funerals: starting a study, 2009
School of Education, University of Brighton
The liminality of the implicit, 1996
Dept. of Human Relations, University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo
The contemporary view of re-incarnation in Japan: narratives of reincarnating self, 2009
When prophecies come true: the attitude of believers in Ascension after the earthquake in Japan, 2012
Dept of Sociology, University of Surrey
English Catholics and Papal authority: reflections on the Popes visit in 1982, 1983
History of Art & Social Sciences, Cambridge University
“Faith in the City” and implicit religion, 1986
Theoretical dimensions of Implicit Religion: response to the Denton Conference, 2000
The futures of implicit religion—of its study and of the realities that it studies, 2003
“Holy places, or hollow spaces?”: built forms and religious experience, 2006
‘Nearly,but not quite’ — re-positioning Implicit Religion for the 21st century, 2013
See also: Grace Davie, 1986
Asst. Director (Implicit Religion), CARTS, Cambridge
Implicit religion and the academy, 2013
University of Cambridge
Popular imagery and popular religion in contemporary Peru, 1986
Christian Research, Australia
Implicit religion in Australia, Middlesex 1998
Centre for the Study of Human Relations, University of NottinghThe Great Something-in-the-Sky: the beliefs of everyday Britain, 2000
Dept of Sociology, University of Reading
Faith-healing and implicit religion, 1998
Between spirituality and sexuality: dynamics of identity construction, 2012
Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Implicit Religion from the perspective of psycho-social commitment theory, 1998
The Sacred Land Project. See: Christine King, 2003
Dept of Religious Studies, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario
Diomorphs and Cobblers: ways of being religious in Canada, 1999
Religion, explicit and implicit, in “The Lord of the Rings”, 2002
Dept of Adult Education, University of Surrey
Towards a sociological understanding of superstition, 1978
Asst. Director (Implicit Religion), CARTS, Cambridge
Everyday life in rural France: some pointers to implied religion, Winterbourne 1982
Analysing community life, Winterbourne 1987
How best to give life to the study of religion, 2002
Sacred persons in contemporary culture, 2004
Is interfaith work possible?, 2007
Discerning and articulating the implicit: A methodology workshop, 2008
The anthropology of Christianity, 2013
See also: Graham Howes
New College, Edinburgh
Utilisation of religious symbols, performances and subversion of local customs for social negotiation and change in rural south India, 2010
Physical Culture, Palacky University, Czech Republic
“Systematic constellation” as a trans-rational image of the unconscious: non-religious spirituality or implicit religion?, 2013
Winter wondering on ?????????????????????? of transcendence And spirituality in participants’ mind maps, 2014
The Czech Comic Strip “Fast Arrows” and the boundaries of implicit religion , 2015
Centre for the Study of Religion and Society, Canterbury
Dying today: is nothing sacred?, 1992
Causes and consequences of the English preference for cremation, Winterbourne 1992
University of Helsinki
An empirical approach to Civil Religion, 2014
Centre for Information on Religion, Tokyo
People in Japan who use the term “spirituality”, 2004
Quality Curriculum Authority, London
Values development and your school, RE 1998
Dept of Religious Studies, University of Glasgow
The experience of transcendence in contemporary culture, 1978
Sociology, Liverpool Hope University
The implicit religion of the dress symbol: an evolutionary view, 1997
The implicit religion of the Internet, 2006
The odour of sanctity; a whiff of rebellion: an implicit religion view of the humblest of things (socks), 2007
The spiritual turn of post-Crisis economics: the implicit religion of “the dismal science”, 2009
Recycling Religion: Understanding Lance Armstrong’s, 2013
Granulated faith-holding: examples from the vocation of science (Max Weber, Edward Shils, David Martin), 2014
Dept of Mass Communication, Iona College, New York
Viewing advertising through the lens of faith: finding God in images of Mammon, 2006
University of Kent at Canterbury
“Christaquarians”? Churchgoers and The New Age, Winterbourne 1999
Passionist Fathers, and University of Gottenburg
Popular piety in Sweden, 1987
Vice-Chancellor’s Office, Staffordshire University
Nazi responses to new religious movements, 1986
His hand in mine: Elvis Presley, religion, myth and fantasy, 1989
Staffordshire University, and The Sacred Land Project
Pilgrimage and its contribution to sustainable societies, 2003
Dept of Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz
Implications of the self-statements in undergraduate autobiographies, 1968-88, 1989
Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol
Spirituality, the zest for life, and the power of love, 2009
Ridley Hall, Cambridge
Christianity and cultural encasement(with Bill Pickering), Winterbourne 1994
Institute for Psychology, University of Leipzig
Is football religion?: implicit-religious phenomena in the field of football, 2007
Dept of Anthropology and Sociology, Monash University, Victoria
The religious experience of youth in three Australian secondary schools, 1995
Dept of Sociology, University of Leeds
Conventional and common religion in the media, 1983
Religious Studies, George Fox University, Oregon
The Church, Alternative Lifestyles, and Sacro-Egoism: Religious Radical Individualism in the Modern World, 2013
Dept of Sociology, University of Liverpool
Power and religion in modern society, 1985
Dept of Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Implicit religion: a view from Hong Kong, 2004
Centre for Inter-Faith Dialogue, Middlesex University
The implicit religion of love, 1998
Implicit religion in inter faith dialogue, Middlesex 1998
Dept of Practical Theology, University of Helsinki
Civil/diffused/invisible religion in the capital area of Finland, 1985
Civil religion in Finland, 1988
Dept of Missiology, Trinity College, Bristol
The implicit in symbol and ritual: implications for secularisation theory, 1979
Christian initiation and implicit religion, 1986
Central Information Centre, Board of Deputies of British Jews
Faith and experience of the Jew, RE 1983
Christian Education Movement, London
Religion and values for 16+, 1987
Vice-Chancellor, Leeds Metropolitan University
The implicit religion of Higher Education, 2005
Dept of Resligious Studies, University of South Carolina
“Religion” in the Middle East: implicit and/or invisible, 2006
America’s heirloom comfort song: “Amazing Grace”, 2012
Centre for the Studies in Implicit Religion, University of Wales, Bangor
Implicit Religion, Establishment, and the Church-State relationship, 2006
Community, identity, divinity: an analysis of the basis of religion, 2007
Dept of Psychology, St Martins College, Lancaster
Being objective about the subjective, 1980
Dept of Community Studies, Ilkley College
A critical sociology of implicit religion?: inter-war Christian sociology versus capitalist idolatry, 1981
Epiphany and apocalypse in the postmodern, 1994
Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
The implicit religion of organs: transformative experience, sacred discourses, and sensuous nations, 2006
University of Tübingen
Is there a substantive equivalent of religion?: naturalistic systems as religion, 1988
Dept of Drama, Homerton College, Cambridge
Implicit religion as revealed through drama, RE 1982
Independent scholar
Women, household and the family, among South American Pentecostals, 1993
Dept of Sociology, London School of Economics
Human sound and sublime vision, 1979
Universities of Quebec at Montreal
Turning Into Gods: Transhumanist insight on tomorrow’s religiosity, 2013
Dept of Sociology/Anthropology, Wheaton College, Illinois
American sport as folk religion: examining a test of its strength, 1988
Muscular Christianitys English roots and American branches: the development and institutionalisation of modern Evangelical sport ministries, 1991
Fellow for Studies in Implicit Religion, United College of Ascension, Birmingham
Jesus, the allure of celebrity, football, and the curious allure of David Beckham, 2005
The spirituality of money and the allure of consumerism, 2006
Dept of Sociology, University of Aberdeen
The metaphysics of secular institutions, 1984
Dept of Religious Studies, University of Lancaster
Religious dimensions of the martial arts, East and West, 1992
Technologists’ professional motivations , 2015
Dept des Sciences Réligieuses, Université de Québec à Montrèal
Two solitudes, one insight: implicit religion and religiosity, 1999
Religion, implicit or post-modern?, 2000
The moods of Mariana: of hijabs, Nikes, implicit religion and post-modernity, 2004
Contemporary sexuality, transcendence, and implicit religion, 2005
An Unexpected Journey. Explicit and Implicit Religious Dimensions of Technology, 2015
Cassel Research Institute, San Diego, CA
Worship and the psychology of inventive creativity, 1999
Dept of Religious Education, Homerton College, Cambridge
Some aspects of the transcendental experiences of adolescents, 1981
Adolescents understanding of experience and belief: the effects of a teaching programme, RE 1984
Mature and immature religious outlooks, RE 1985
Affective RE and its development, RE 1994
Dept. of Engineering & Computing, Staffordshire University
I-Pastoral Care: a small case study, 2009
Dept. of Computing, Engineering & Sciences, Staffordshire University
Implicit Religion as expressed in end-of-life spiritual care in a multi-religious children’s hospital, 2013
Dept of Sociology, University of Virginia
The implicit religion of American teenagers, 2001
University of Durham
Implicit approaches to explicit religion, 1994
Dept of Sociology, University of Leeds
Common religion in Leeds: an interim report, 1982
Consultant in information systems, and Sheffield Hallam University
Implicit religion and ethics in asking for money, Winterbourne 1995
Institute of Social Work, Staffordshire University
Religion and spirituality in social work education and practice, 2004
Dept of Sociology, University of Akron, Ohio
The opportunity cost of discipleship: ethical investment and its return, 1990
Dept of Sociology, University of Exeter
Implicit religion: a perspective from anthropology, 1978
St Columbas Hospice, Edinburgh
The Lord Chancellors dilemma: implicit assumptions in two High Calvinist Churches, 1990
Implicit religion: the hospice experience, 1992
The implicit religion of letters of consolation, 1998
The implicit religion of the afterlife, 2001
The Scout Movement as an implicit-religious movement, 2006
“Left Behind?” Implicit religion and evangelical apocalyptic, 2009
The great anniversary of the KJV: how is this translation unique, 2012
How far can we call heraldry ‘implicitly religious’? Is it useful to do so?, 2013
McGill University, Montreal
From healers to heels: the decline of a mythical archetype, 2010
Architect, Bath
The setting of the funeral, Winterbourne 1989
Dept of Religious and Theological Studies, Westhill College, Birmingham
Implicit religion in contemporary Japan, 1985
School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
Calvanism as ???????: American environmentalism as implicit Calvanism, 2014
Dept of Sociology, University of Florence
The concept of implicit religion, 1986
RE Adviser, Brent
Affective learning and religious education, RE 1989
The Gospel and Our Culture Project, Selly Oak
The Gospel and our culture, Winterbourne 1994
Institute for the Study of Worship and Religious Architecture, University of Birmingham
Secularisation and organised astrology, 1980
Implicit religion in organised astrology, 1982
Mythological Studies, Pacific Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA
The discourse of belief in media culture: with the loss of the symbolic life and the menace of media credulity, what are the prospects for implicit religion?, 2002
Dept of Religious Studies, University of Tokyo
The relevance of the concept of implicit religion for Japanese society, 1982
Centre for New Religious Movements, Selly Oak, Birmingham
New religious movements and the parish ministry, Winterbourne 1988
Division of Social Sciences, University of Toronto
Implicit religion in Canada, 1990
Art and implicit religion, 1996
Dept of Education, University of Keele
When is an experience religious?: the strange case of Lord Clarke and Dr Vidler, RE 1983
Sikh Gurudwar, Bristol
The relationship between everyday experience and the Sikh faith, RE 1985
Dept of Sciences Réligieuses, Université de Québec à Montrèal
The “Vampire trend” as implicit religion: its correlates and consequences in contemporary society, 2000
Dept of Religious Studies, St Thomas University, Fredericton, NB
Grey Owls Indians and place-based religiousness, 1997
Faculty of Theology, University of Leiden
The Internet as a sacred phenomenon: the meanings of a contemporary hierophany, 2005
“The Third Wave” and the New Economy: the implicit religiosity of late 20th century techno-utopian visions, 2006
A jungle of terms: what is implicit religion?, 2007
Believe in the Net: implicit religion and the internet hype, 1994-2000, 2009
“Spiritual labour”: working on the spiritual marketplace, producing spirituality, 2011
Leeds Church Institute & Leeds University
Spirituality at work, 2005
Head of Humanities, Castle School, Taunton
Art and Religious Education, RE 1983
Church of Sweden Social Research
Implicit religion turned explicit: a case-study of the Estonia disaster, 1996
St Anthonys College, Oxford
Durkheim on popular religion, 1989
The Année Sociologique group, and van Gennep, 1990
See also: Graham Kings, Winterbourne 1994
Dept of History, Indiana State University
Civil religion and the contemporary Christian political right, 1985
Queens College, Cambridge
Implicit religion and inter faith dialogue: focussing the issues, Cambridge 1998
Dept of Sociology, Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio
The effects of prayer on mental well-being, 1993
University of Basel
Consuming friendship: cooking and eating as religious practices, 1998
Dept of Education, University of Exeter
The affective dimension in RE: a theoretical framework, RE 1987
Portsmouth School of Art, Design and Media
Material culture and implicit religion, 1999
Wesley College, Bristol
Spirituality and healthcare, winterbourne 2003
Religionswissenschaft, Marburg
Implicit religion and inter faith dialogue: focussing the issues, Cambridge 1998
Religious Experience Research Project, Nottingham School of Education
Affective learning in Religious Education, RE 1989
Theology & Religion, Durhan University
The Flourishing of Wonder: Palliative or Cure?, 2013
Religious Education Research Centre, Westhill College, Birmingham
Implicit religion in RE: the curriculum,, RE 1982
Scottish Centre for Japanese Studies, University of Stirling
Tourism and pilgrimage: the Japanese case, 1990
From the feet up: etiquette and implicit religion in Japan, 1991
Diocese of Worcester, Church of England
The “Transitional Towns” Handbook: signs of an “implicit religion”?, 2009
Counsellor, psychotherapist, and consultant in RE, Norfolk
Implicit religion and the experience of healing, in counselling and psychotherapy, 1995
Implicit Religion in two South Indian cross-cultural ashrams, 2006
Grubb Institute of Behavioural Studies, London
Values to live by: a study of dependence, 1984
New College, Edinburgh
Eliade: the meaning of implicit religion, and the implicit religion of meaning, 1990
Welsh National Centre for R.E., University of Wales, Bangor
Belonging without believing: a study in Anglican identity and implicit religion, 2003
Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, University of Warwick
The “Spiritual Revolution” and suicidal ideation: an empirical enquiry among 13 to 15 year olds in England and Wales, 2009
Welsh National Centre for R.E., University of Wales, Bangor
Alternative spiritualities: different personalities? An empirical enquiry exploring the persistence of implicit religion among 14- to 16-year old students, 2007
Institute of Education, University of Warwick
Mystical orientation and psychological type: a study in implicit religion among guests staying at a Benedictine abbey, 2008
Institute for Religion and the Human Sciences, University of St Andrews
Conceptualising enterprise religion, 1992
Implicit religion and inter faith dialogue: focussing the issues, Cambridge 1998
Religious Experience Research Unit, Oxford
The authority of religious experience, 1980
Indirect communication, 1983
Dept of Applied Global Ethics, Leeds Metropolitan University
Implicit religion and pastoral care in counselling, 2005
The soul of the University, 2008
The Quiet Garden Trust, Amersham, Bucks
Travelling light, dwelling deep: exploring a model for spiritual development and contemplative discipleship, Winterbourne 2002
Dorset Institute of Higher Education
Human prudence and implied divine sanctions, in Malagasy proverbial wisdom, 1984
Xmas: folk religions festival of nostalgia, 1989
Implicit and explicit religious themes in the poetry of R S Thomas, 1995
Dept of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The new voluntarism: implications for implicit religion, 1988
Centre for Human Communication, Manchester Metropolitan University
Civil religion and the performance of national community, 2003
Alternative therapies: healing and implicit religion, 2004
Research & Development in R.E., University of East Anglia
Implicit religion in school settings: the educators and secularised faith, 2004
Clare College, Cambridge
The implicit is for cogitation, 1979
Is cosmology a religion?, 1980
Rodin, Lucien Freud, and Western individualism, 1996
Arthur Rank Centre, National Agricultural Centre, Kenilworth
The country parish, today and tomorrow, Winterbourne 1987
Université du Québec à Montréal
Doubles and doppelgangers: religious meaning for the young & old, 2010
Dept of Sociology, University of Mainz
Images of the deceased as a problem of implicit religion, 1993
Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt University, Germany
Collective Myths and Individualization — The emergence of secular myths of contemporary adolescent generation(s) in Germany and France within family and society, 2013
Institute of Psychology, University of Innsbruck
Implicit Religiosity: a psychological theory of implicitly religious cognition, behaviour and experience, with empirical data, 2002
Personality and implicit religiosity, 2004
Applying insights from research in Implicit Religion: fulfilling the need for meaning, in various contexts, 2009
Sanctifying the Secular: Implicit Religiosity among Irreligious Individuals, 2011
Atheist religion, atheist spirituality, 2014
Dept of Psychology, University of Glasgow
The religion of politics, 1978
United Theological College, Birmingham
The struggle to define religion in the comparative study of religion, 2004
The quest for spirituality in the secular and multi-faith context of India, 2005
Dialogical approaches to the study of religion, 2006
Meaning and meanings in religious life: an inter-faith perspective,, 2007
Naming the transcendent: an inter-faith perspective, 2008
Counter-Liberation and Cult Formation: The Case of a Socio- Religious Movement in the Southern Tip of India, 2011
Piety, power and politics: the tale of two memorials on the Marina Beach, Chennai, 2012
Kṛṣṇa’s frolics with the Milkmaids: humanising Divinity, or sacralising profanity?, 2015
Dept of History and Philosophy, Montana State University
Bricks and towers, books and tongues: language and implicit religion, 2002
Oxford and Cincinnati
Implicit religion and inter-faith dialogue in scientific perspective, Cambridge 1998
Belief in a just world: an implicit religion, 1998
How implicit religion functions in the pursuit of happiness, 2004
Systems of meaning and implicit religion: a conceptual framework for understanding implicit religion, 2006
Universities of Oxford & Cincinnati, and of Walden, Minneapolis
The implicit religion underlying interpretations of European prehistoric art,, 2008
Research Officer, St Matthias’ Foundation, Avon Colleges of Further Education
Secular experiences of transcendence, Winterbourne 1985
Rural Church Project, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester
Robert Towlers typology re-examined, Winterbourne 1992
See also: Douglas Davies, 1992
St Thomas’s Vicarge, Dagenham, Essex
Folk religion, and the Church’s response, Winterbourne 1987
Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Familism and implicit religion, 1986
The religion of the family, Winterbourne 1991
Welsh National Centre for R.E., University of Wales, Bangor
Implicit religion and ordinary prayer, 2007
Coping through prayer: an empirical study in implicit religion concerning prayers for children in hospital, 2011
Say one for me: the implicit religion of prayers from the street, 2012
Ernulf’s Comprehensive School, St Neots, Cambridge
The use of story in the classroom, RE 1985
Dept of Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
Implicit religion in inter-faith perspective, Cambridge 1998
See: Christine King, 2003
Biblical Theological Seminary, Hatfield, Pennsylvania
The root of religiosity, explicit and implicit, according to the Apostle Paul, in Romans, chapter 1, 2008
Islamic Cultural Centre, London Central Mosque
Faith and experience for the Muslim, RE 1983
Centre for Bio-medical Ethics, University of Virginia
The struggle to define religion in the comparative study of religion, 2004
Luther College, University of Regina, Saskatchewan
Technological mysticism, 1988
God and the Chip, 1996
From symbol to story: narratives in implicit religion, 2004
Institute of Organisation and Social Studies, Brunel University
The dilemma of structuring: a fellowship of believers, 1982
Sociology of Religion, University of Stirling
“Punk Rock is my religion”: the spirituality of Straight Edge punks, 2012
An exploration of the role of redefining the notion of ‘religion’ in relation to violence and conflict resolution, with a particular emphasis on Northern Ireland, 2013
Nailing Descartes to the wall: anarchism, punk rock, and animal rights, 2015
School of Humanities, University of California, Long Beach
A holistic conception of religion, 1991
A meaningful symbol for God today, 1992
Stowmarket High School, Suffolk
Has the notion of implicit religion any value in teaching RE?,, RE 1982
Dept of Sociology, Northern Illinois University, and Editor Sociological Analysis
Religion, secularisation, and social process, 1985
Ultimate values in politics: problems and prospects for world society, 1987
The implicit affinities of Satanism and Fundamentalism in the United States, 1989
Implicit and explicit socio-economic status effects in American denominationalism, 1996
Implicit religion as hate, 1999
Meaning and Contradiction: the placing of Implicit Religion in a multiplicity of contexts, 2000
Dept of Sociology, Northern Illinois University, and Editor Sociological Analysis
Implicit religious assumptions within the resurgence of civil religion in the USA since 9/11, 2005
Religious Studies, Middlesex University
Hinduism: an implicit or explicit religion?, 2000
Centre for the Study of Environmental Change, Lancaster University
The un-common good: cultural pluralism and the good life, 1997
see under second name
Centre for the Study of Theology, University of Essex
Believing without belonging: the rise of “occasionalism”, 1995
Walter Benjamins “Aura”: a key concept for Implicit Religion?, 2000
Agonised attraction: Slavoj Zizek and suspended belief, 2005
Dept of Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen
Has Humanism a religious dimension?, 1979
Church History Institute, Aarhus University, Denmark
The relationship between religious and secular revival movements in Denmark, 1984
Music Dept., University of Huddersfield
Hallowing out of the symbol: Popular iconography and the artist currently known as Prince, 2008
Dept of Sociology, University of Leeds
Methodological problems in the study of implicit religion, 1981
Research Director, Independent Broadcasting Authority
The competing ideologies called Christianity, 1980
The Common and Conventional Religion in Leeds research project, 1984
Douai Abbey, Berkshire
Monastic spirituality: a universal archetype?, 2004
How can the Rule of Benedict help us understand the true purpose of leisure and work in the 21st century?, 2006
Occupy Hong Kong: enchanted dissent in the heart of the Capitalist Utopia, 2015
The Catholic Ethic Project, University of Michigan
Charity and “Sharity”: the contest between the Protestant and Catholic ethic in 20th century America, 1993
Dept of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol
Belief into action: the South American experience, RE 1984
Centre for New Religious Movements, Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham
A working model for the relationships between the sacred and the secular, 1984
Dept of Sociology, University of York
Vegetarianism, 1980
St Matthew’s Vicarage, Preston
The religion of British working-class people who do not habitually attend public worship, Winterbourne 2004
School of Philosophy & Theology, University of Birmingham
Response to Wilhelm Dupré, Cambridge 1998
Primal soteriology of Anglican clergy, Winterbourne 1998
Dept of Philosophy, Heythrop College, London
Affective learning in RE: philosophical reflections, RE 1988
Spirituality: liberalism and fundamentalism — a philosophical enquiry, RE 1994
Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Implicit Religion within the Bhagavad Gita, 2015
The Alister Hardy Research Centre, Oxford
Mysticism: some recent evaluations, 1991
Religious experience: some recent research, Winterbourne 1992
Diocese of Lichfield
“You don’t have to go to church to be a good Christian”: the implicit religion of two Cathedral Carol Service congregations, 2011
Diocese of Bath and Wells
The soteriology of Anglican clergy, Winterbourne 1999
The changed meanings of the Occasional Offices: some recent clerical observations, 2001
Continuing Ministerial Education, Bristol Diocese
The implicit religion of family therapy, 1991
Dept of Sociology, University of Reading
Todays divinities, and a theological response, Winterbourne 1985
Funerals now, Winterbourne 1989
The rituals of the Hillsborough tragedy, 1990
Do all patients have a spiritual dimension?, Winterbourne 1999
Professional Studies, City University of New York
Liturgy as Explicit and Implicit Religious Vision, 2013
Revitalizing Downtown Manhattan: secularisation, sacralization, and implicit religion, 2012
City University of New York
Cultural Commitments and Gender Parity: Human Rights as Implicit Religion, 2015
Dept. of Religious Studies, The Open University
Prayer: a critical term in Religion Studies, 2009
Centre for Studies in Religion & Society, University of Victoria, B.C.
State power as a vehicle for the forcible propagation of modernitys unspoken religious tradition, 2003
Holding life as sacred property: the implicit religion behind the proprietorisation of living organisms, 2007
Helping students see what ordinarily remains implicit: how implicit religion can enrich teaching, 2008
Dept of Humanities and Applied Social Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University
Divine interventions: Victorian religion and the process of female identity, 1995
Bickershaw Vicarage, Wigan
Religious assumptions in contemporary Church adult education, 1993
Wormingford Vicarage, Colchester
Summoned by bells?, 2001
Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible (Julius Caesar),, 2003
Keele University, Chaplain
Making the implicit, explicit, in local Christian chaplaincy, Winterbourne 2000
St Mary’s Church, Henbury, Bristol
Folk religion and the Church’s response, Winterbourne 1991
St Hildas Church, Halifax
Establishment, in theory and in practice, 1989
The insights of the implicit religion approach, and their application in parish and deanery, Winterbourne 1990
Implicit religion of pulpit and pew, 1993
Centre for the Study of Religions, University of Toronto
Is science really an implicit religion?, 1987
Phenomenology of religion as religio-cultural quest: van der Leeuw and the subversion of the scientific study of religion, 1989
Dept of Social Ethics, St Martin’s College, Lancaster
The notions of religious and secular ritual, 1978
Welsh National Centre for R.E., University of Wales, Bangor
Implicit religion and the quest for meaning: the relationship between purpose in life and conventional (Christian) and unconventional (paranormal) transcendent beliefs, 2007
Classical paranormal beliefs, religious paranormal beliefs, and traditional religiosity: an empirical examination of implicit religion among undergraduates in Northern Ireland and Wales, 2008
The psychological type profile of practising British Pagans compared with Anglican churchgoers, 2010
Spiritualist Mediums and other Traditional Shamans: practitioner and community, intensification and diffusion, 2011
Farmington Institute, Oxford
First steps in the study of religion, 1978
Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University
Civil religious beliefs and Presidential elections: 1976 and 1984, 1985
Rural Church Project, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester
Believing and belonging, Winterbourne 1992
See also: Douglas Davies, 1992
Faculty of Arts, The Open University
Religion and nationalism in response to the deaths of British royalty, 1997
McGill University, Montreal
Promises of immortality: the revival of medical scientism, 2010
