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Reading Religious Architecture (2006)
Book Chapter
Collins, P. (2006). Reading Religious Architecture. In E. Arweck, & P. Collins (Eds.), Reading religion in text and context (137-156). Ashgate Publishing

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Ritual (2005)
Journal Article
Collins, P. (2005). Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Ritual. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 20(3), 323-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537900500249855

'Ritual' has long been a key concept in anthropology and many 'rituals' have been identified, described, and interpreted. In most cases, those interpretations have been generated and presented by anthropologists. Occasionally, however, the interpreta... Read More about Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Ritual.

Designing for Health: Architecture, Art and Design at the James Cook University Hospital (2005)
Report
Macnaughton, R., Collins, P., White, M., Elliott, K., Soukas, A., Purves, G., …Coleman, S. (2005). Designing for Health: Architecture, Art and Design at the James Cook University Hospital. [No known commissioning body]

Pioneering study into how art, architecture and environment impact on the health of patients in the new PFI hospital.

Storying Self and Others: The Construction of Narrative Identity (2003)
Journal Article
Collins, P. (2003). Storying Self and Others: The Construction of Narrative Identity. Journal of Language and Politics, 2(2), 243-264. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.2.2.04col

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork undertaken among British Quakers this article attempts to elucidate some of the connections between the narrative quality of everyday interaction and the local construction of self. Focusing on the Quaker Meeting, we... Read More about Storying Self and Others: The Construction of Narrative Identity.