Post:	Head of Department
Other posts:	Professor of Anthropology
	Professor of Anthropology (Migration)
Location:	Arts C C206
Email:	S.M.Coleman@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	8371 or 7185
UK:	(01273) 678371 or (01273) 877185
International:	+44 1273 678371 or +44 1273 877185

Biography

Simon Coleman came to Sussex University in 2004, having spent 11 years at Durham University as Lecturer and then Reader in Anthropology, and Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health. He obtained his undergraduate degree and PhD from Cambridge, and was a Junior Research Fellow in both Churchill College and St John's College, Cambridge. He moderates a list-serve in the Anthropology of Religion and is currently editor of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Role

Head of Department

Research

Simon Coleman's PhD was based on a charismatic Christian group based in Sweden (Livets Ord) that developed possibly the largest Bible School in Europe, as well as a global network of congregations and ministries. Over the last 20 years he has continued to work on the group and has developed interests in globalisation, religious language and ritual, and forms of worship mediated through such technology as video and the Internet. Work on conservative Protestantism has also prompted a side-interest in Creation Science and 'Intelligent Design'. Simon also spends much of his time looking at Christian pilgrimage. Since the 1990s he has been engaged in carrying out fieldwork at Walsingham, Norfolk - a premier Christian pilgrimage site in UK and a centre for debates over the contemporary role of Catholicism, gender and religion, and the connections (or otherwise) between tourism and pilgrimage. Some of this work has been carried out with an art historian, and has led to an interest in the materiality and aesthetics of religious expression.

Recently, Simon has been working with other anthropologists, architects and medics in work examining the uses and constructions of space in National Health Service Hospitals. This work has continued his interests in aesthetics, linking it with broader notions of the politics of health and well-being. It has also led to a project examining the role of hospital chaplains in the NHS. His newest project is a collaboration with colleagues in Portugal and Holland, looking at 'diasporic' African Pentecostal congregations in Europe. Simon's focus is on Nigerian congregations based in London, but with global networks. Alongside these research projects Simon has maintained an interest in the culture of learning and teaching within anthropology, and he is currently working with Paul Basu, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, The Higher Education Academy Subject Network for Sociology, Anthropology, Politics (C-SAP) and the Royal Anthropological Institute on projects examining how anthropology can be learned and taught beyond universities.

So a summary of Simon's interests might be: pilgrimage, conservative Protestantism, biomedical discourses, tourism, ritual, mobility, space and place, diasporas, friendship, aesthetics, art; Sweden, the UK, the US, Nigeria.

Doctoral Students:
Steve Colburn - Authenticity and Performance in Contemporary Music

Lauren Greenwood - Changing conceptions of identity in military stabilisation support operations

Katrin Maier - African Pentecostal congregations in London

Kate Nielsen - Competing Conceptions of Identity among Irish-Canadians

Anna Stewart - Gender, Christian Evangelicalism and the Internet

Matluba Wakefield - Women and Religious Practices in the Post-Soviet Period in Uzbekistan

Andrea Szkil - Forensic Specialists’ Work with Human Remains in Post-War Bosnia

Publications

Books and Edited Collections
Dislocating Anthropology?: Bases of Longing and Belonging in the Analysis of Contemporary Societies (ed. with P. Collins) Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming 2008
"Against Belief" (Special Issue, ed. with G. Lindquist) Social Analysis, forthcoming 2008
Space, Movement and Health (ed. with K. Hampshire) Oxford: Berghahn, forthcoming 2008
Multi-Sited Ethnography:Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods (ed. with P. von Hellerman) London: Routledge, forthcoming 2008
"Displacing the Centre" (Special Issue, ed. with V. Bajc and J. Eade) Mobilities, forthcoming 2007
The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity: Spreading the Gospel of Prosperity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 (paperback reprint)
NHS Hospital Chaplaincies in a Multi-Faith Society: The Spatial Dimension of Religion and Spirituality in Hospital (with Peter Collins, Jane Macnaughton and Tessa Pollard) NHS Estates, 2007
The Discipline of Leisure: Embodying Cultures of Recreation (ed. with T. Kohn) Oxford: Berghahn, 2007
Locating the Field?: Changing Contexts of Fieldwork and Ethnography (ed. with P. Collins) ASA Series Oxford: Berg, 2006
Designing for Health: Architecture, Art and Design at the James Cook University Hospital (with J. Macnaughten, P. Collins, P. Kellett, G. Purves, A. Suokas, M. White, K. Taylor) NHS Estates, 2005
Religion, Identity and Change: Perspectives on Global Transformations (ed. with P. Collins) Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004
The Cultures of Creationism: Antievolutionism in English-Speaking Countries (ed. with L. Carlin) Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004
Reframing Pilgrimage: Cultures in Motion (ed. with J. Eade) London: Routledge, 2004
Pilgrim Voices: Narrative and Authorship in Christian Pilgrimage (ed. with J. Elsner) Oxford: Berghahn, 2003
Tourism: Between Place and Performance (ed. with M. Crang), Oxford: Berghahn, 2003 (reprinted 2004)
"The Faith Movement: A Global Religious Culture?", Special Issue of Culture and Religion 3(1), 2003
"Effective Ethics and the Effects of Ethics" (Special Issue ed. with R. Simpson) Anthropology in Action 9(3), 2003
"Anthropology Inside Out: Identity and Agency in the Reproduction of a Discipline" (Special Issue, ed. with R. Simpson) Anthropology in Action 8(1), 2001
The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity: Spreading the Gospel of Prosperity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000
The Anthropology of Friendship (ed. with S. Bell), Oxford: Berg, 1999
Discovering Anthropology: A Resource Guide (ed. with R. Simpson), London: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1999
Pilgrimage Past and Present: Sacred Travel and Sacred Space in the World Religions (with J. Elsner) London: British Museum Press and Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995 (paperback copy issued 1998)
Livets Ord och det Svenska Samhället: Analys av en Debatt   (Research Report translated as: The Word of Life and Swedish Society: Analysis of a Debate) Uppsala: Swedish Church Publications, 1991
An Introduction to Anthropology (with H. Watson) London: Quintet, 1990

Articles and Book Chapters (since 2001)
"Comment" on "Continuity Thinking and the Problem of Christian Culture" by Joel Robbins Current Anthropology 48(1), February 2007
"Images and Objects" in Mary: The Complete Resource ed. S. Boss London: Continuum, pp.395-410, 2007
"Anthropology of Pilgrimage" in Pilgrims and Pilgrimage ed. D. Dyas Interactive CD- ROM, University of York, 2007
"The Discipline of Leisure: Taking Play Seriously" in The Discipline of Leisure: Embodying Cultures of Recreation (ed. with T. Kohn) Oxford: Berghahn, pp.1-21, 2007
"Of Metaphors and Muscles: Protestant 'Play' in the Disciplining of the Self" in The Discipline of Leisure: Embodying Cultures of Recreation eds S. Coleman and T. Kohn Oxford: Berghahn, pp.39-53, 2007
"The Abominations of Anthropology: Christianity, Ethnographic Taboos and the Meanings of 'Science'" in On the Margins of Religion ed. F. Pine Oxford: Berghahn, 2007
"Introduction: (Dis)placing the Centre" (with V. Bajc and J. Eade) Mobilities, 2007
"A Tale of Two Centres?: Representing Palestine to the British in the Nineteenth Century" Mobilities, 2007
"Creating a Transnational Public: The Faith Movement Across Cultures" in Questioning the New eds A. Adogame and P. Probst U. of Bayreuth, forthcoming
"The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Urbanism" in Religion and Urban Context ed. R. Pinxten Oxford: Berghahn and Antwerp: Houtekiet, forthcoming
"On Remembering and Forgetting in Writing and Fieldwork" in Keeping an Open 'I': Memory and Experience as Resources in Ethnography eds P. Collins and A. Gallinat Oxford: Berghahn, forthcoming
"Studying 'Global' Pentecostalism: Tensions, Representations and Opportunities" Pentecostudies 5(1):1-17, 2006
"Rediscovering Anthropology Through Public Museums" (with P. Basu and S. Posey) Anthropology News 47(9):16, 2006
"'Being...Where?': Locating Fields on Shifting Grounds" in Locating the Field?: Changing Contexts of Fieldwork and Ethnography (ed. with P. Collins) ASA Series Oxford: Berg, pp.1-21, 2006
"The Multi-Sited Ethnographer" in Critical Journeys: The Making of Anthropologists eds M. Unnithan and G. de Neve Aldershot: Ashgate, pp.31-46, 2006
"Pilgrimage" in The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion ed. R. Segal Oxford: Blackwell, pp.385-96, 2006
"Textuality and Embodiment amongst Charismatic Christians" in Reading Religion in Text and Context eds E. Arweck and P. Collins Aldershot: Ashgate, pp.157-68, 2006
"When Silence isn't Golden: Charismatic Speech and the Limits of Literalism" in Ritual and the Limits of Meaning: Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity eds M. Tomlinson and M. Engelke Oxford: Berghahn, pp.39-61, 2006
"Materializing the Self: Words and Gifts in the Construction of Evangelical Identity" in The Anthropology of Christianity ed. F. Cannell North Carolina: Duke University Press, pp.163-184, 2006
"The Shape of Faith or the Architectural Forms of the Religious Life" (with P. Collins) Collins) in Materializing Religion: Expression, Performance and Ritual eds E. Arweck and W. Keenan Aldershot: Ashgate, pp.32-44, 2006
"An Empire on a Hill? The Christian Right and the Right to be Christian in America" Anthropological Quarterly 78(3):653-71, 2005
"Space, Movement and Health: Biosocial Perspectives" (with K. Hampshire) Society, Biology and Human Affairs 70(1):15-16, 2005
"Global and Local Context: Anthropological Strand" in Studying Local Churches eds Cameron, H., Richter, P.,  Davies, D. and Ward, F. Norwich: SCM Press, pp. 43-54, 2005
"Pilgrimage to 'England's Nazareth':  Landscapes of Myth and Memory at Walsingham" in  Intersecting Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism eds E. Badone and S. Roseman Urbana: University of Illinois press, pp.52-67, 2005
"Putting it All Together Again: Healing and Incarnation in Walsingham" in Pilgrimages and Healing eds J. Dubisch and M. Winkelman University of Arizona Press, pp.91-110, 2005
"Economy and Religion" in Handbook of Economic Anthropology ed. J. Carrier, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, pp.339-52, 2005
"The Charismatic Gift" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10(2):421-42, 2004
"Tradition as Play: Pilgrimage to 'England's Nazareth'" (with J. Elsner) History and Anthropology 15(3):273-88, 2004
"Of Margins and Marbles: On the Margins of Religion" Anthropology Today 19(5):24, 2004
"The Magic of Anthropology" Anthropology News 45(8):8, 2004
"Ambiguous Attachments: Religion, Identity and Nation" (with P. Collins) in Religion, Identity and Change: Perspectives on Global Transformations eds S. Coleman and P. Collins Aldershot: Ashgate, pp.1-25, 2004
"The Cultures of Creationism: Shifting Boundaries of Belief, Knowledge and Nationhood"(with L. Carlin) in The Cultures of Creationism: Antievolutionism in English-Speaking Countries eds S. Coleman and L. Carlin Aldershot: Ashgate, pp.1-25, 2004
"Introduction: Reframing Pilgrimage" (with J. Eade) in Reframing Pilgrimage: Cultures in Motion eds S. Coleman and J. Eade, London:Routledge, pp.1-25, 2004
"Knowing, Doing and Being: Pedagogies and Paradigms in the Teaching of Social Anthropology" (with R. Simpson) in Teaching Anthropology in Europe eds D. Dracklé and I. Edgar Oxford: Berghahn, pp.18-33, 2004
"Myerhoff, Barbara G." in Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Athropology ed. V. Amit London: Routledge, pp.370-1, 2004
"'Conference People': Congregations and the Politics of the 'Local'" in Congregational Studies in the UK: Christianity in a Post-Christian Context eds M. Guest, K. Tusting and L.Woodhead Aldershot: Ashgate, pp.39-55, 2004
"The Rhetoric, Practice, and Rhetorical Practice of Charismatic Protestant Conversion" in The Anthropology of Conversion eds A. Buckser and S. Glazier New York: Rowman and Littlefield, pp.15-27, 2003
"Travels and Pilgrimages" in Encyclopedia of Protestantism New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2003
"Sweden" in Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices ed. T. Riggs Montana: The Gale Group, 2003
"Pilgrimage and Shamanism" in Encyclopedia of Shamanism eds M. Walter and E. Fridman Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 2003
"Do you Believe in Pilgrimage?: From Communitas to Contestation and Beyond" Anthropological Theory 2(3):355-68, 2002
"From the Sublime to the Meticulous: Art, Anthropology and Victorian Pilgrimage to Palestine" History and Anthropology 13(4):275-90, 2002
"The Faith Movement: A Global Religious Culture?" Culture and Religion 3(1):3-19, 2003
"The New Higher Education? Learning and Teaching in a Knowledge Society" Anthropology Today 18(3):26, 2002
"'But Are they Really Christian?': Contesting Knowledge and Identity in and out of the Field" in Whither Ethnography? Transforming the Social-Scientific Study of Religion eds J. Spickard, S. Landres and M. McGuire New York: New York University Press, pp.75-87, 2002
"Global Consciousness and the Conservative Protestant Imagination" in Fundamentalism: Church and Society eds M. Percy and I. Jones London: SPCK, pp.97-109, 2002
"Faith for the Future? Conservative Protestantism as a Social Movement for the 21st Century" in Traditional Religion and Culture in a New Era ed. R. Bachika New Brunswick: Transaction, pp.55-67, 2002
"Comment on Mormon Pilgrimage" Anthropology Today 17(4):23, 2001
"Anthropology Inside Out: Identity and Agency in the Reproduction of a Discipline" (with R. Simpson) Anthropology in Action 8(1):1-5, 2001
"Anthropology and Education: Resisting Bureaucracy" (with R. Simpson) Athropology Today 17(2):26-7, 2001
"Comment on Anthropology 'Outside In'" (with R. Simpson) Anthropology Today 17(5):25-6, 2001
"Images: Christian Perspectives" in Encyclopedia of Monasticism Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, pp.637-9, 2001
"Pilgrimages, Christian: Near East" in Encyclopedia of Monasticism Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, pp.1022-24, 2001
"Pilgrimage" International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2001
"Grounded Tourists, Travelling Theory" (with M. Crang) in Tourism: Between Place and Performance eds S. Coleman and M. Crang Oxford: Berghahn, pp.1-17, 2001
"Pilgrim Voices: Authoring Christian Pilgrimage" (with J. Elsner) in Pilgrim Voices: Narrative and Authorship in Christian Pilgrimage eds S. Coleman and J. Elsner Oxford: Berghahn, pp.1-16, 2001