I am a final year PhD student working on the spiritual identity and practices of Straight Edge punks, a subculture I have been an adherent of for over a decade. I am particularly focused on their nomadic approach to religion and religious ideas, the
...MoreI am a final year PhD student working on the spiritual identity and practices of Straight Edge punks, a subculture I have been an adherent of for over a decade. I am particularly focused on their nomadic approach to religion and religious ideas, their willful syncretic approach to spiritual practices and how that relates to, informs and on occasion diverges from the current discussion on the relationship between religion and the secular and religion and society.I am also engaged with notions of critical religion, specifically in terms of how the approaches and ideas of religion and spirituality of Straight Edge punks enable us as academics to explore the de-essentialising of religion and the replacement of long held categories of religion, secular and so on with concepts of authenticity, integrity, DIY and community.
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Religion in Society
