Gary D Bouma is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Political Inquiry at Monash University, UNESCO Chair in Intercultural and Interreligious Relations – Asia Pacific, and Chair of the Standing Committee on Ethics in Research Involving
...More
Gary D Bouma is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Political Inquiry at Monash University, UNESCO Chair in Intercultural and Interreligious Relations – Asia Pacific, and Chair of the Standing Committee on Ethics in Research Involving Humans. His research in the sociology of religion examines the management of religious diversity in plural multicultural societies, postmodernity as a context for doing theology, religion and terror, inter-cultural communication, religion and public policy, women and religious minorities, and gender factors in clergy careers. Gary Bouma has worked tirelessly in support of healthy inter-faith relations and to defend the rights of minority religious groups. Gary is the author of 20 books and over 100 chapters and refereed articles. His books include The Research Process, Mosques and Muslim Settlement in Australia; Many Religions, All Australian; The Management of Religious Diversity, and Religion, Cultural Diversity and Safeguarding Australia. His latest Australian Soul: Religion and Spirituality in the 21st Century has just been published and he next Democracy in Islam, Routledge is in press.
Less