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Director of the MA Theology Program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My work is focused on the intersections between religion, theology and culture, with a particular emphasis on the impact and interplay of contemporary digital life on religion and belief (particularly Western Christianity). I am particularly interested in religion where it is least obvious and in cultural clinamens- the behaviour and phenomena that escape our categorizing and thus provide opportunity for re-framing how we think and approach life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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