Paul-François Tremlett: My longstanding interest in critical social theory and philosophy has been crucial to my interest in the Philippines and East Asia more generally. I am seeking to develop an approach to the historical conjunctions of religion, culture and society that is informed by values pertaining to social justice, political freedom and human autonomy and which begins with religions as sites for the articulation of mobilities, forces, flows and discourses in a world that is both intensely interconnected and increasingly fragmented. My current areas of interest include: secularism, geographies and spatialities, death, nature, and critiques of cognitive theory .

Books:

  2009. Re-Writing Culture in Taiwan. London and New York: Routledge.

 
 


2008. Religion and the Discourse on Modernity. London: Continuum.

  2008. Lévi-Strauss on Religion: The Structuring Mind. London: Equinox.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

Forthcoming. "Weber-Foucault-Nietzsche: Uncertain Legacies for the Sociology of Religion." In Sects and Sectarianism in S. Stern, ed. Jewish History. Leiden: Brill.

2004. "On the Formation and Function of the Category “Religion” in Anarchist Writing. Culture and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 5(3):367-381.

1999. "Utopia as Praxis: The Case of Joanna Southcott and the Panacea Society" The Scottish Journal of Religious Studies. 20(1):93-102.