Rebecca Catto

My research is grounded in the sociology of religion and connected by an overarching interest in how the secular and religious interact, particularly in Europe and North America, attentive to power relations and social justice issues in these dynamics.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• world Christianity
• interfaith dialogue
• equality, human rights, religion and belief
• science and religion
• non-religion and secularity
• youth participation
• social problems

selected publications

Jones, S., Kaden, T. , Elsdon-Baker, F. and Catto, R. 2018 “That is how Muslims are required to view the world”: race, culture and belief in non-Muslims’ descriptions of Islam and science’, The Sociological Review, online first

Kaden, T. Elsdon-Baker, F., Jones, S., and Catto, R. 2017 ‘Knowledge as Explanandum: Disentangling Lay and Professional Perspectives on Science and Religion’, Studies in Religion, online first

Davie, Grace, Rebecca Catto, and Linda Woodhead (2016). Secularism and Secularization. In Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations, edited by L. Woodhead, C. Partridge, and H. Kawanami. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 551-570.

Catto, Rebecca, Grace Davie, and David Perfect (2015). State and Religion in Great Britain: Constitutional Foundations, Religious Minorities, the Law and Education. Insight Turkey 17(1): 79-96: http://file.insightturkey.com/Files/Pdf/editors-note_4.pdf 

Eccles, Janet, and Rebecca Catto (2015). Espousing apostasy and feminism? Older and younger British female apostates compared. Secularism & Nonreligion: http://www.secularismandnonreligion.org/articles/10.5334/snr.ax/

Catto, Rebecca and David Perfect (2015). Religious Literacy, Equalities and Human Rights. In Religious Literacy in Policy and Practice, edited by A. Dinham and M. Francis. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 135-163.

Catto, Rebecca (2014). What can we say about today's British religious young person? Findings from the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme. Religion 44(1): 1-27: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/n6dpU3zIcBDEKt86D6YP/full

Catto, Rebecca and Janet Eccles (2013). (Dis)Believing and Belonging: Investigating the Narratives of Young British Atheists. Temenos 49(1): 37-63: http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/temenos/article/view/8616

Catto, Rebecca (2013). Accurate Diagnosis? Exploring Convergence and Divergence in Non-Western Missionary and Sociological Master Narratives of Christian Decline in Western Europe. Transformation 30(1): 31-45.

Woodhead, Linda and Rebecca Catto (eds). Religion and Change in Modern Britain. London; New York: Routledge.

grants

Currently I am Co-Principal Investigator on the £3.4 million ‘Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum, Global Perspectives' project funded by the Templeton Religion Trust. With my colleague Stephen Jones from the University of Birmingham, I am leading the qualitative research to be conducted in Argentina, Australia, Germany, Spain, and the US.

Previous projects include:

• 2014 - 2017 Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum, Co-Investigator, Templeton Religion Trust
• 2013-2014 Interfaith Dialogue in Coventry- Retrospective and Prospective, Pump-prime funding: Coventry University’s Faculty of Business, Environment and Society
• 2013-2014 Researcher, The Amman Message Project, EU
• 2011-2012 Principal Investigator, The Young Atheists Research Project, Jacobs Foundation
• 2009-2013, Research Associate, AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme