Robin D Willey
Biographic Data
| ID | 178086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin D Willey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin D |
| FAMILY NAME | Willey |
| SIGNATURE | WILLEY R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University of Edmonton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1459-4578 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘It’s not something that you just do
Deciding to get children vaccinated against COVID-19 is not something families ‘just do’ in contexts where neoliberal values shape social norms and governance. Vaccination decisions are socially situated, involve multiple actors, and require careful consideration of competing risks in relation to expectations of ‘good’ parents. Informed by theoretical approaches to emotion and risk, our study contributes to understanding parents’ perspectives of …
Tasteful Play
Émile Durkheim (1912) argues that art is an essential part of religious life—it ‘refreshes a spirit worn down by all that is overburdening in day‐to‐day labor’ (385). For Durkheim, making art in religious contexts is akin to sacred play. We explore how contemporary Christian artists use play, frivolity and experimentation to intentionally, and more often unintentionally, challenge, or at least, reveal various social and theo‐political dynamics wi…
God’s Story’ as ideological determinant in faith-based cosmopolitanism
In his 2017 book, David Hollinger argues that, historically, Protestant American missionaries acted like 'boomerangs' with the intent of changing their targeted populations through evangelism. In actuality, their work had a greater effect on the population from which they departed. This boomerang effect is the consequence of an alteration of values arising from mission work abroad that made missionaries more critical of racism, colonialism, and r…
Camp syndrome
Building on insights drawn from feminist theory and masculinity studies, this qualitative research project explores Alberta's oil production culture, frontier masculinity, and the industry's connection to the sex trade. Major findings suggest that within the oil production culture, negative views of women, the objectification of women, and the normalization of purchasing sex, are products of frontier masculinity. We conclude that the frontier mas…
Gender and charismatic power
Almost at Home in South Sudan
In this study, we examine the experience of international Christian humanitarian aid workers and who work in South Sudan. From interviews with thirty people in east Africa and north America, we derive a relationship between Christianity as our participants understand it, and their modalities of encountering “the other” – the people of South Sudan, who may seem different and unfamiliar, yet who must be met as part of religiously motivated life and…
Shifting the sacred
For sociologist Emile Durkheim, the "sacred" constitutes all those things "set apart and forbidden." Within Evangelical Christianity, and to a lesser degree Protestantism in general, the sacred has arguably centered on the individual believer and her/his personal relationship with God and scripture. Recently, however, a growing movement within Evangelical Christianity has emphasized the sacred nature of relationships and community, culminating in…
Liminal practice
This article uses conceptions of liminality as found in the works of French social theorist and philosopher Georges Bataille and anthropologist Victor Turner to resolve limitations in Pierre Bourdieu's functionalism. The concept of 'liminal' religious fields (e.g., charismatic effervescence) helps to account for the affective, irrational, heterogeneous, and/or sacred aspects of social life, while maintaining the explanatory power of Bourdieu's th…
Becoming Data
Religious communities present very different, and often difficult, issues to the researcher. In particular, religious groups often have more interest in the researcher as a person than as a social scientist. In other words, religious people often are more interested in “saving” the researcher’s “soul” in than providing that researcher with accurate information. This article unravels this issue through a single event that the author experienced in…
Gender and charismatic power
Liminal practice
This article uses conceptions of liminality as found in the works of French social theorist and philosopher Georges Bataille and anthropologist Victor Turner to resolve limitations in Pierre Bourdieu's functionalism. The concept of 'liminal' religious fields (e.g., charismatic effervescence) helps to account for the affective, irrational, heterogeneous, and/or sacred aspects of social life, while maintaining the explanatory power of Bourdieu's th…
Camp syndrome
Building on insights drawn from feminist theory and masculinity studies, this qualitative research project explores Alberta's oil production culture, frontier masculinity, and the industry's connection to the sex trade. Major findings suggest that within the oil production culture, negative views of women, the objectification of women, and the normalization of purchasing sex, are products of frontier masculinity. We conclude that the frontier mas…
Almost at Home in South Sudan
In this study, we examine the experience of international Christian humanitarian aid workers and who work in South Sudan. From interviews with thirty people in east Africa and north America, we derive a relationship between Christianity as our participants understand it, and their modalities of encountering “the other” – the people of South Sudan, who may seem different and unfamiliar, yet who must be met as part of religiously motivated life and…
Shifting the sacred
For sociologist Emile Durkheim, the "sacred" constitutes all those things "set apart and forbidden." Within Evangelical Christianity, and to a lesser degree Protestantism in general, the sacred has arguably centered on the individual believer and her/his personal relationship with God and scripture. Recently, however, a growing movement within Evangelical Christianity has emphasized the sacred nature of relationships and community, culminating in…
Becoming Data
Religious communities present very different, and often difficult, issues to the researcher. In particular, religious groups often have more interest in the researcher as a person than as a social scientist. In other words, religious people often are more interested in “saving” the researcher’s “soul” in than providing that researcher with accurate information. This article unravels this issue through a single event that the author experienced in…
Liminal practice
This article uses conceptions of liminality as found in the works of French social theorist and philosopher Georges Bataille and anthropologist Victor Turner to resolve limitations in Pierre Bourdieu's functionalism. The concept of 'liminal' religious fields (e.g., charismatic effervescence) helps to account for the affective, irrational, heterogeneous, and/or sacred aspects of social life, while maintaining the explanatory power of Bourdieu's th…
Almost at Home in South Sudan
In this study, we examine the experience of international Christian humanitarian aid workers and who work in South Sudan. From interviews with thirty people in east Africa and north America, we derive a relationship between Christianity as our participants understand it, and their modalities of encountering “the other” – the people of South Sudan, who may seem different and unfamiliar, yet who must be met as part of religiously motivated life and…
Shifting the sacred
For sociologist Emile Durkheim, the "sacred" constitutes all those things "set apart and forbidden." Within Evangelical Christianity, and to a lesser degree Protestantism in general, the sacred has arguably centered on the individual believer and her/his personal relationship with God and scripture. Recently, however, a growing movement within Evangelical Christianity has emphasized the sacred nature of relationships and community, culminating in…
Gender and charismatic power
God’s Story’ as ideological determinant in faith-based cosmopolitanism
In his 2017 book, David Hollinger argues that, historically, Protestant American missionaries acted like 'boomerangs' with the intent of changing their targeted populations through evangelism. In actuality, their work had a greater effect on the population from which they departed. This boomerang effect is the consequence of an alteration of values arising from mission work abroad that made missionaries more critical of racism, colonialism, and r…
Camp syndrome
Building on insights drawn from feminist theory and masculinity studies, this qualitative research project explores Alberta's oil production culture, frontier masculinity, and the industry's connection to the sex trade. Major findings suggest that within the oil production culture, negative views of women, the objectification of women, and the normalization of purchasing sex, are products of frontier masculinity. We conclude that the frontier mas…
Tasteful Play
Émile Durkheim (1912) argues that art is an essential part of religious life—it ‘refreshes a spirit worn down by all that is overburdening in day‐to‐day labor’ (385). For Durkheim, making art in religious contexts is akin to sacred play. We explore how contemporary Christian artists use play, frivolity and experimentation to intentionally, and more often unintentionally, challenge, or at least, reveal various social and theo‐political dynamics wi…
‘It’s not something that you just do
Deciding to get children vaccinated against COVID-19 is not something families ‘just do’ in contexts where neoliberal values shape social norms and governance. Vaccination decisions are socially situated, involve multiple actors, and require careful consideration of competing risks in relation to expectations of ‘good’ parents. Informed by theoretical approaches to emotion and risk, our study contributes to understanding parents’ perspectives of …
Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (4 works) · Charisma (3 works)