People

Co-Principal Investigators

Stephen Christopher

Visiting Research Fellow, Nicibunken (Kyoto)

Research Associate, Inform, based in Theology and Religious Studies at King's College London

stephen.christopher@kcl.ac.uk

Suzanne Newcombe

Senior Lecturer and Director of Inform

Department of Religious Studies, The Open University (UK)
Inform, based in Theology and Religious Studies at King's College London

suzanne.newcombe@open.ac.uk

Core Team Members

Sarah Charles

Former Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University (UK)

Currently working with the International Association for the Psychology of Religion

sarah.charles@nottinghamtrent.ac.uk

Sarah Harvey

Senior Researcher at Inform

Based in Theology and Religious Studies at King's College London

sarah.harvey@kcl.ac.uk

William Noseworthy

Managing Editor Database of Religious History

Associate Cataloger at Cornell University Library, Cornell University

william.noseworthy@kcl.ac.uk

Edward Slingerland

Distinguished University Professor

University of British Columbia's Department of Philosophy
Director, Database of Religious History (DRH)

edward.slingerland@ubc.ca

Advisory Board

Clinical and Research Psychologists

Veronika Huta

Professor

University of Ottawa's School of Psychology
Co-Founder of the Canadian Positive Psychology Association

Veronika.Huta@uottawa.ca

David Paul Johnson

Clinical Psychologist

PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
US-based clinical practice specialized in positive psychology and religious minorities

staff@ogdencenterforchange.com

Todd Kashdan

Professor

George Mason University's Department of Psychology
Director, The Well-Being Lab

todd@toddkashdan.com

Joar Vittersø

Professor

The Arctic University of Norway's Department of Psychology
Team Member of 'Modeling Human Happiness' and editor of Handbook of Eudaimonic Well-Being

joar.vitterso@uit.no

New Religions Scholars

Eileen Barker

Professor Emeritus

The London School of Economics and Political Science's Department of Sociology
Founder of INFORM (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements)

e.barker@lse.ac.uk

Thinandavha Mashau

Professor

University of South Africa's Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
Department Chair and General Secretary of the Southern Africa Missiological Society (SAMS)

mashatd@unisa.ac.za

David Robertson

Senior Lecturer

The Open University's Department of Religious Studies
Co-Founder of the Epistemic Contestations Network

david.robertson@open.ac.uk

Prakirati Satasut

Assistant Professor

Thammasat University's Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology

prakirati@gmail.com

Digital Humanities and Citizen Science

Javier Cha

Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities

The University of Hong Kong's Department of History
Principal Investigator of The Big Data Studies Lab

javiercha@hku.hk

M. Afzal Upal

Professor & Associate Dean

James Madison University's College of Integrated Science & Engineering (CISE)

upalma@jmu.edu

Epidemiology

Yusuf Ransome

Associate Professor

Yale School of Public Health

yusuf.ransome@yale.edu

Contributors