CHANSE Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: University of Cambridge
• Country: United Kingdom (UK)

Research area

• Call theme: Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities
• Keywords:

  Religion; Apocalypse; Violence; Climate; Conspiracy

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  I am a Professor of the Anthropology of Religion, based in the Cambridge Divinity Faculty. I work on the boundaries between anthropology, religious studies, and theology. I specialise in contemporary Protestant Fundamentalism, apocalypticism, millenarianism, and conspiracy theories. I also research religiously motivated climate change denial, as well as sectarianism, religiously motivated hatred, and football disorder. Methodologically, all my research is ethnographic based on fieldwork in Scotland and Northern Ireland. I have published two ethnographic monographs and numerous articles on the Exclusive Brethren and the Orange Order and am currently finishing a Leverhulme project on Jehovah\'s Witnesses in Northern Ireland. I have contacts with UK-based non-academic partners who would be willing to collaborate.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  I would be interested in joining a project that examines religious expressions of crisis, particularly a project that focuses on apocalyptic, millenarian, or eschatological themes. I would also be interested in joining a project examining climate change denial, religious violence, sectarianism and hatred, religious exclusion and exclusivism, conspiracy theories, and far-right expressions of Christianity. Given my background in anthropology, I would need to be able to contribute to a project that permitted me to research contemporary religious communities in the UK using ethnographic methods.

Joseph Webster

• Organisation: University of Cambridge
• Position: Professor (Anthropology of Religion)
• E-mail: jw557@cam.ac.uk
• Web: www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory/josephwebster