Çağdaş Dedeoğlu is a research associate of The Center for Critical Research on Religion. Previously, he worked as an assistant professor of political science and public administration at Istanbul Arel University and then as a research scholar at the University of Florida’s Department of Religion. Dedeoğlu’s research interests include political ecology of religion and science, secularism, critical thinking and sustainable security. His recent work centers around a research project exploring the relationship between religion and the alternative cosmologies. He is also interested in the theory and methodology of social scientific research about the relationship between religiosity and environmental behavior as well as the security outcomes of this relationship. These interests animate his involvement with other research organizations, including the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture and the Political Ecology Network. Alongside many publications, he published a book, The Nature of Security, the Security of Nature.
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