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Dr Adam Powell's Outputs (4)

The Hearing Voices Movement as Postmodern Religion-Making: Meaning, Power, Sacralisation, Identity (2017)
Journal Article
Powell, A. J. (2017). The Hearing Voices Movement as Postmodern Religion-Making: Meaning, Power, Sacralisation, Identity. Implicit Religion, 20(2), 105-126. https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.32688

Over the past 40 or 50 years, scholars of religion have frequently attempted to use the tools of social science to analyse, describe, and explain the relevance and persistence of religion in the modern world. With the bold predictions of the seculari... Read More about The Hearing Voices Movement as Postmodern Religion-Making: Meaning, Power, Sacralisation, Identity.

Functionalism or Fallacy: Re-locating Hans Mol’s Identity Theory (2017)
Journal Article
Powell, A. J. (2017). Functionalism or Fallacy: Re-locating Hans Mol’s Identity Theory. Italian Sociological Review, 7(1), 63-85. https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v7i1.149

In this paper, the identity theory of religion outline by sociologist Hans Mol in the 1970s is introduced and located among the various competing theories of the mid-20th century. Using such comparisons, particularly with enigmatic sociological figur... Read More about Functionalism or Fallacy: Re-locating Hans Mol’s Identity Theory.

The Place of Identity Dissonance and Emotional Motivations in Bio-Cultural Models of Religious Experience: A Report from the 19th Century (2017)
Journal Article
Powell, A. J. (2017). The Place of Identity Dissonance and Emotional Motivations in Bio-Cultural Models of Religious Experience: A Report from the 19th Century. Journal for the study of religious experience, 3(1), 91-105

Durham University’s ‘Hearing the Voice’ project involves a multi-disciplinary exploration of hallucinatorytype phenomena in an attempt to revaluate and reframe discussions of these experiences. As part of this project, contemporaneous religious exper... Read More about The Place of Identity Dissonance and Emotional Motivations in Bio-Cultural Models of Religious Experience: A Report from the 19th Century.