# Religion and Belief

**Source**: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/hss/groups/religion-and-belief
**Parent**: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/engage-and-innovate/consultancy

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## About us

How have religious faith and experience motivated people in the past, and how do they continue to influence people today?

Our work emphasizes the variety and diversity of religious expressions, including the Protestant and Catholic divisions in post-Reformation Christianity, the relationship between religion, the state and politics, new religious movements and the philosophical basis for faith and religion.

Our academic staff have published very widely on topics such as sacred space, witchcraft in the early modern period, religion and the state in the eighteenth century, Methodism in the eighteenth century, theological responses to Nazism, religion and psychoanalysis, the material and visual cultures of religion, blasphemy, and secularism.

Current research projects include the eighteenth century church and sex, the religious culture of Europe in the seventeenth century, and Freud and feminism.

### Part of

- [School of Education, Humanities and Languages](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/ehl "School of Education, Humanities and Languages")

### Related courses

- [History (BA (Hons))](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/history)

## Membership

Staff members

- Staff

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### Staff

| Name | Role | Email |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Dr Dominic Corrywright](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/dominic-corrywright) | Interim Associate Dean Education & Student Experience | [dcorrywright@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:dcorrywright@brookes.ac.uk) |
| [Professor Johannes Dillinger](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/johannes-dillinger) | Professor of Early Modern History | [dillinger@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:dillinger@brookes.ac.uk) |
| [Professor William Gibson](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/william-gibson) | Emeritus Professor of Ecclesiastical History | [wgibson@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:wgibson@brookes.ac.uk) |
| [Professor David Nash](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/david-nash) | Emeritus Professor of History | [dsnash@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:dsnash@brookes.ac.uk) |

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