Robin Willey

Education

PhD, 2017, Sociology, University of Alberta
MA, 2010, Sociology, University of Alberta
BA (Co-op with distinction), 2007, Sociology / Religious Studies, University of Lethbridge

Teaching Areas

Sociology of Religion; Social Theory; The Family; New Religious Movements; Gender & Sexuality

Research Interests

Progressive movements in Canadian Evangelicalism; Art and social change in religious communities; Frontier and liminal masculinities in Alberta; Contemporary Christian sexuality; Faith-based Humanitarianism

Courses Taught

Sociology 100 (Sociological Concepts and Perspectives), 102 (Social Problems), 224 (Deviance and Conformity), 271 (The Family), 332 (The Development of Sociology I), 333 (The Development of Sociology II), 376 (The Sociology of Religion), 471 (Sociological Analysis: The Family), and 472 (Family and Society).

Selected Publications

Articles

With Amy Kaler, & John Parkins. (2024) “‘God’s Story’ as ideological determinant in faith-based cosmopolitanism.” Journal of Contemporary Religion. 39(1), 107–128.

With Kassandra Landry. (2022). “‘Camp Syndrome’: Exploring Frontier Masculinity in Alberta’s Oil Production Culture.” NORMA, DOI: 10.1080/18902138.2022.2139513

With Paul Joosse (2020). “Gender and Charismatic Power.” Theory and Society. As found at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-020-09392-3 on May 25, 2020

With Amy Kaler & John Parkins. (2019). “Almost at Home in South Sudan: International Christian Humanitarians and the Theopolitics of Recognition.” Canadian Journal of Sociology. 44(2): 137-164.

(2019). “Shifting the Sacred: Rob Bell and the Postconservative Turn.” Critical Research on Religion, 7 (1): 80-99.

(2016). “Liminal Practice: Pierre Bourdieu, Madness, and Religion.” Social Compass. 63 (1): 125-141.

(2013). “The Evangelical Sexual Marketplace: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Development, Exchange, and Conversion of Erotic Capital in an Evangelical Church.” The Canadian Journal of Family and Youth. 22 (1) as found at https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/cjfy/article/view/18946 on May 8, 2013.

With Stephen Kent. (2013). “Sects, Cults, and the Attack on Jurisprudence.” Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion. 14 as found at http://lawandreligion.com/sites/lawandreligion.com/files/2013%20Vol.%2014%20Kent.pdf on May 29, 2013.

(2010). “Becoming Data: Star Trek Wisdom and the Effects of Fieldwork on the Fieldworker.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. 22 (3) as found at http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/art22%283%29-data.html on January 30, 2010.

Exhibition Catalogues

With Carolyn Jervis. (2022). Articles of Faith [Exhibition catalogue]. Edmonton, AB: John and Maggie Mitchell Art Gallery.