Deepen your understanding of communities influenced by religious belief and consider fundamental questions about the meaning and purpose of human life.
Course
Dr Shanon Shah
Tutor in Islam
Dr Shanon Shah holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from King’s College London. He previously lectured in religious studies there and at the University of Kent.
Dr Shanon Shah holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from King’s College London, where he is now a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. He previously lectured in religious studies there and at the University of Kent.
Shanon is the director of Faith for the Climate, a national charity focusing on collaborative action by faith groups to address the climate crisis. He also conducts research on minority religions and alternative spiritualities at the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (Inform), a research charity based in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King's College London.
His research and teaching interests include the ethnographic study of religion, contemporary Islam and Christianity, new religious movements, gender and sexuality, popular culture, and social movements.
Modules taught:
- Introduction to Islam (Level 4)
- Religion and Science (Level 6)
Publications
2023 with Jane Cooper & Suzanne Newcombe, ‘Occult Beliefs and the Far Right: The Case of the Order of Nine Angles’. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. https://10.1080/1057610X.2023.2195065
2022 ‘Using the New Religious Movements framework to consider LGBT Muslim groups’. In Radical Transformations in Minority Religions, edited by Beth Singler and Eileen Barker, 189-204. Routledge: London.
2021 ‘Spontaneous humour and Malaysia’s democratic breakthrough in 2018’. European Journal of Humour Research 9 (3): 135-150. https://doi.org/10.7592/EJHR2021.9.3.526
2021 ‘Historical and contemporary silences: The experiences of queer Muslim youth’. In Queer Youth Histories. Genders and Sexualities in History, edited by Daniel Marshall, 317-345. Palgrave Macmillan: London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56550-1_12
2020 ‘Ethnicity, gender and class in the experiences of gay Muslims’. In Intersecting Religion and Sexuality: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Andrew Yip and Sarah-Jane Page, 23-44. Leiden: Brill
2019 ‘Populist politics in the new Malaysia’. New Diversities 21 (2): 53-67
2019 ‘Ethnicity and the making of gay Muslims in Malaysia and Britain’. In Young People and the Diversity of (Non)Religious Identities in International Perspective, edited by Elisabeth Arweck and Heather Shipley, 183-201. New York: Springer
2016 ‘Constructing an alternative pedagogy of Islam: The experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Muslims’. Journal of Beliefs & Values 37 (3): 308–19. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2016.1212179.
2013 ‘The Malaysian dilemma: Negotiating sexual diversity in a Muslim-majority Commonwealth state’. In Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change, edited by Corinne Lennox and Matthew Waites, 261–85. London: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.