This page provides links to resources that support, discuss or practice the range of methodological issues explored on this site. To avoid an overwhelming amount of content, this is not intended as an exhaustive summary of available material, and we have restricted ourselves to no more than ten items under each of the sections below.

This part of the site is under on-going review, and if there are key resources that you think should be included below then please contact us to make suggestions.

Journals: a Social and cultural study of religion

• Culture and Religion
• Fieldwork in Religion
• Journal of the American Academy of Religion
• Journal of Contemporary Religion
• Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
• Material Religion
• Nordic Journal of Religion and Society
• Religion
• Sociology of Religion

Journals: Methodology and social research

• Ethnography
• International Journal of Social Research Methodology
• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
• Journal of Mixed Methods Research
• Qualitative Research
• Sage Research Methods Online

Research centres and programmes on religion

• Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research
• Center for Media and Religion (NYU)
• Center for Media, Religion and Culture (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society (University of Kent)
• Center for the Study of Religion and Society (University of Notre Dame)
• RELIGARE: Religious Diversity and Secular Models in Europe (EU)
• Religion and Society programme (AHRC/ESRC)
• Religion and the Public Sphere (SSRC)
• The Impact of Religion: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy
• The Re-Emergence of Religion as a Social Force (NORFACE)

Centres and programmes on research methodology

• ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NRCM)
• ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (e-prints of publications)
• Methods@Manchester: Research Methods in the Social Sciences
• QUALITI: Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences (NRCM node)
• Realities: Social Research for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life (NCRM node)

Professional associations: Study of religion

• American Academy of ReligionASA Section on the Sociology of Religion
• Association for the Sociology of Religion
• British Association for the Study of Religions
• BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group
• European Association for the Study of Religions
• Society for the Anthropology of Religion
• Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

Professional associations: Social research

• American Anthropological Association
• Association of American Geographers
• Association of Internet Researchers
• British Sociological Association
• International Communication Association
• International Sociological Association
• Royal Anthropological Institute
• Royal Geographical Society

Codes of research ethics

• American Anthropological Association
• American Association of Geographers
• American Sociological Association
• Association of Internet Researchers
• British Sociological Association
• ESRC Research Ethics Framework
• International Sociological Association

Research blogs and other online resources

• Bristol On-line Surveys
• Digital Research Tools Wiki
• Research Methods Forum (Sage)
• When Religion Meets New Media (Heidi Campbell)
• The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion and the Public Sphere