Paul-François Tremlett – The Center for Critical Research on Religion

Paul-François Tremlett

Paul-François Tremlett: My longstanding interest in critical social theory and philosophy has been crucial to my interest in the Philippines and East Asia more generally. I am seeking to develop an approach to the historical conjunctions of religion, culture and society that is informed by values pertaining to social justice, political freedom and human autonomy and which begins with religions as sites for the articulation of mobilities, forces, flows and discourses in a world that is both intensely interconnected and increasingly fragmented. My current areas of interest include: secularism, geographies and spatialities, death, nature, and critiques of cognitive theory.

I am part of an interdisciplinary and international research team working on a project titled ‘Re-Assembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource’ funded by the Norwegian Research Council led by Professor Jone Salomonsen http://www.tf.uio.no/english/research/projects/redo/. My part of the project is called ‘The Rites of Citizenship’ and examines the Occupy protests in London and Hong Kong following the financial crash of 2007-8 relating them to ritual, place-making practices, the experience of the city. The project runs from 2013-2017.

Books

(forthcoming) Towards a New Theory of Religion and Social Change: Sovereignties and Disruptions. London: Bloomsbury.

(forthcoming) Ritual and Democracy: Protests, Publics and Performances. London: Equinox (co-edited with Sarah Pike and Jone Salomonsen).

2017. Edward Burnett Tylor, Religion and Culture. London: Bloomsbury, 219pp, ISBN: 978-1-3500-0341-5 (co-edited with Graham Harvey and Liam Sutherland).

2009. Religion and the Discourse on Modernity. London: Continuum.

2009. Re-writing Culture in Taiwan. London: Routledge (co-edited with Fang-Long Shih and Stuart Thompson.

2008. Levi-Strauss on Religion: The Structuring Mind. London: Routledge.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Tremlett, P-F. (forthcoming) ‘Effervescence and Implosion in the Sociologies of Emile Durkheim and Jean Baudrillard: Towards a Sociology of Religion at the End of the Social’ in International Journal of Baudrillard Studies.

Tremlett, P-F. (forthcoming) ‘Tristes Tropiques’ in The International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology. (ed). H. Callan. Wiley-Blackwell.

Tremlett, P-F. (forthcoming) ‘Religion, Marxism and Ideology’ in The International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology. (ed). H. Callan. Wiley-Blackwell.

Tremlett, P-F. (2017) ‘Protest Objects: Bricolage, Performance and Counter-Archaeology’ in World Archaeology 49 (3): pp. 423-434 (co-authored with Katy Soar).

Tremlett, P-F. (2016) ‘(Post)-structuralism’ in The Oxford Handbook for the Study of Religion. (eds). Engler, S. and Stausberg, M. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 220-234.

Tremlett, P-F. (2016) ‘Affective Dissent in the Heart of the Capitalist Utopia: Occupy Hong Kong and the Sacred’ in Sociology 50 (6): pp. 1156-1169.

Tremlett, P-F. (2016) ‘Looking Back on the End of Religion: Opening Re Marx’ in After World Religion. In Cotter, C.G., and Robertson, D.G., (eds). After World Religions: Reconstructing Religious Studies. Acumen, pp. 92-106.

Tremlett, P-F. (2015) ‘Structure’ in Vocabulary for the Study of Religion, (eds). R. Segal & K. von Stuckrad. Leiden: Brill, pp. 417-423.

Tremlett, P-F. (2015) ‘Affective Dissent in the Heart of the Capitalist Utopia: Occupy Hong Kong and the Sacred’ Sociology Published online first at doi: 10.1177/0038038515591943

Tremlett, P-F. (2015) ‘Forget Dawkins: Notes Towards an Ethnography of Religious Belief and Doubt’ Social Analysis 59 (2), 81-96. (Co-authored with Fang-long Shih).

Tremlett, P-F. (2014) ‘Urban Religious Change at the Neoliberal Frontier: Notes toward a Spatial Analysis of a Contemporary Filipino Vernacular Catholicism’ Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints 62 (3-4) 529-547.

Tremlett, P-F. (2014) ‘Religion in New Times’ in Soundings. Issue 57.

Tremlett, P-F. (2013) ‘The Problem with the Jargon of Inauthenticity: Towards a Materialist re-positioning of the Analysis of Postmodern Religion’ in a Special Issue of Culture and Religion edited by Carole Cusack, Vol. 14, No. 4.

Tremlett, P-F. (2013) ‘The Ancestral Sensorium and the City: Reflections on Religion, Environmentalism and Citizenship in the Philippines’ in Harvey, G., (ed). Handbook of Contemporary Animism, London: Equinox.

Tremlett, P-F. (2012) ‘Occupied Territory at the Interstices of the Sacred: Between Capital and Community’ in Religion and Society 3: 130-141.

Tremlett, P-F. (2012) ‘Two Shock Doctrines: From Christo-Disciplinary to Neoliberal Urbanisms in the Philippines’ in Culture and Religion 13(4): 405-423.

Tremlett, P-F. (2011) “Structure Amongst the Modules: Lévi-Strauss and Cognitive Theorizing about Religion.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 23:351-366.

Tremlett, P-F. (2011) “Re-cognizing the Mind in the Anthropology of Religion” in NUMEN 58( 4 ): 545-565.

Tremlett, P-F. (2011) “Weber-Foucault-Nietzsche: Uncertain Legacies for the Sociology of Religion.” In Sacha Stern, ed.,Sects and Sectarianism in Jewish History. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.

Tremlett, P-F. (2010) “Animated Texts: Theoretical Reflections on Case Studies from the Lowland Christianized Philippines” in Fieldwork in Religion 5(2):226-239.

Tremlett, P-F. (2004) “On the Formation and Function of the Category “Religion” in Anarchist Writing. Culture and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 5(3):367-381.

Tremlett, P-F. (1999) “Utopia as Praxis: The Case of Joanna Southcott and the Panacea Society” The Scottish Journal of Religious Studies. 20(1):93-102.