K Knott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Knott |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Knott |
| SIGNATURE | KNOTT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4869-8113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 279 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
On the Edge: Sacred Boundary Making in the Time of Covid-19
Working with the concept of “the edge,” and its relationship to boundaries, spaces and distinctions, I consider what inviolable beliefs and values surfaced during the first phase of Coronavirus. As people were exposed to new risks and dangers, sent into isolation by their governments and forced online, how was the sacred impacted, and what places and boundaries became significant? I draw on theories from urban design, cognitive linguistics and an…
Religion and Spirituality as Sites of Learning
Learning penetrates religion in many ways. Primary religious socialisation - sometimes referred to as religious nurture - is the process by which children are explicitly and purposefully taught to do things religiously or they learn implicitly by following what their families and other people around them do, speak and feel. In secondary religious socialisation one sets about learning something additional to or different from what was learned and …
Can a case be made for 'unlearning' in the study of religions: Applying the Concept to the Journeys of Religious Leavers
The concept of 'unlearning' has been positively endorsed in both self-help literature and organizational research, but has yet to be discussed in the study of religions. Is there room for it in the conceptual space of religious socialization, pedagogy and spiritual seeking? Where does it occur in the spiritual journey, and what is its purpose? From the perspective of social learning, and drawing on a definition and model from organizational studi…
Fascist aspirants: Fascist Forge and ideological learning in the extreme-right online milieu
Learning in extremist settings is often treated as operational, with little regard to how aspiring participants in extremist settings engage with complex and abstract ideological material. This paper examines learning in the context of the amorphous network of digital channels that compose the extreme-right online milieu. Through an in-depth qualitative analysis, we explore how well the prevailing model of extremist ideological learning (in ‘comm…
Afterword on Islam and space in Europe: The Dynamism of a Field
This Afterword focuses on the dynamism of the study of Islam and space in Europe. A comparison with Barbara Daly Metcalf's Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe (1996) reveals how much has changed in terms of scholarly approach since its publication. In Metcalf's volume, the frames were migration, mobility and transnational connections. Here, urban diversity, settlement, and secularism are highlighted. Despite a common anthropological f…
Ideological Transmission in Extremist Contexts: Towards a Framework of How Ideas Are Shared
Despite their centrality in academic and policy debates about radicalization and political violence, ideologies have been conceived narrowly, as cognitive, top-down, coherent and systematic. In general, those who have used the concept of ideology have failed to draw on ideological theory or on recent insights about its practice and embodiment, or location in space and time. Our interest is less in the content of ideology than in how it is shared …
Applying the study of religions in the security domain: Knowledge, skills, and collaboration
Since the 1990s, scholars of religion on both sides of the Atlantic have been drawn into engagement with law enforcement agencies and security policymakers and practitioners, particularly for their expertise on new religious movements and Islam. Whilst enabling researchers to contribute to real-world challenges, this relationship has had its frustrations and difficulties, as well as its benefits and opportunities. Drawing on examples from the UK,…
Métodos Espaciais
Versão portuguesa do capítulo 3.4 do The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion, organizado por Michael Stausberg e Steven Engler. Tradução gentilmente autorizada por Taylor & Francis, proprietária dos direitos autorais da obra
Iconic Religion in Urban Space
In order to understand current dynamics of religious diversity, a focus on the tangible presence of religion and the co-existence of new and longstanding religious buildings, sites and artifacts in urban spaces is a fruitful starting point. Launching the notion of iconic religion, this introduction seeks to contribute to developing a scholarly framework for the nexus of religion and the city from a spatial, material, aesthetic and semiotic angle.…
Three dimensions of religious place making in diaspora
In this article, we explore comparatively how migrant minorities draw from their religious resources to carve out spaces of livelihood in three global cities - Kuala Lumpur, which includes Kajang, Johannesburg and London. We also examine the spatial regimes through which the state and its apparatuses seek to manage the migrants' presence and visibility or invisibility within these urban spaces. In particular, we focus on three of the most salient…
Religion, Space, and Place: The Spatial Turn in Research on Religion
Following a consideration of the impact of the late twentieth-century spatial turn on the study of religion by geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and religious studies scholars, two trends are distinguished: the poetics of place and the sacred; and politics, religion, and the contestation of space. Discussion of these reveals substantially different approaches to religion, space, and place-one phenomenological, the other soci…
Specialness and the sacred: Ann Taves,Religious Experience Reconsidered
Ann Taves proposes an encompassing framework of 'specialness' in which both simple and complex ascriptions of things deemed significant — whether religious, spiritual, magical or ideological — may be contained. Her preference for 'specialness' over other terms is clearly argued, but does not adequately take into consideration recent, comparable research on the 'sacred', in particular the work of Anttonen. Whilst acknowledging the flawed nature of…
Becoming a 'Faith Community': British Hindus, Identity, and the Politics of Representation
This article offers an historical perspective on the process by which British Hindus have sought to become a 'faith community' in response to local civic pressures and the intensification of government rhetoric on harnessing the capacity of religious bodies in support of public policy, and also as an expression of Hindu nationalist and ecumenical interests. I review my earlier analysis of Hindus in Leeds, noting the four processes of institutiona…
Spatial Theory and Spatial Methodology, Their Relationship and Application: A Transatlantic Engagement
THE AIM OF THIS PAPER is to consider further the relationship between theory and methodology in the study of religion by engaging Thomas Tweed's theory of “crossing and dwelling” with my own spatial methodology.1 Both of these were constructed with issues of space, location, position, and movement in mind. In Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion, Tweed writes, “I was looking for a theory that made sense of the religious life of transnation…
From locality to location and back again: A spatial journey in the study of religion
In this article, in the context of a retrospective examination of my own research journey from locality to location and back again, I argue for the importance and value of studying religion in local perspective, and reconceptualize ‘locality’ from the perspective of a spatial methodology, in recognition of the critiques made of earlier usage and the demands placed on the term in the context of globalization. Using the example of an urban high str…
Inside, Outside and the Space in-between: Territories and Boundaries in the Study of Religion
Insider/outsider issues are of central importance for the definitions of religion and for the identity of religious groups, for the subjectivity and relationships of their adherents, for methodological issues within the study of religions and for the relationship between non-theological and thological studies of religion. Conceptions of 'inside', 'outside' and 'boundary', the emotions surrounding them, their origins in the social relations of bod…
Spatial Theory and the Study of Religion
A 'spatial turn' has been witnessed in the humanities and social sciences since Henri Lefebvre's La production de l'espace, and its translation into English in 1991. Subsequently, the socio-spatial theories of Lefebvre, Foucault, Certeau and postmodern geographers, such as Soja, Massey and Harvey, have had an impact on research in many disciplines, including religious studies. With its own traditions, of geography of religion and sacred space, it…
Religious Studies and its Relationship with Theology: A Spatial Analysis
Academic disciplines can be understood as tribes with their own territories (Becher 1989) which are protected from outsiders and invested with power and meaning for those within. The language which scholars use to delineate and distinguish them from one another is replete with spatial metaphor and the language of war and struggle. References to inside/outside, inclusion/exclusion, to boundaries, incursions, incorporation, integration and embrace …
Religion, values and knowledge-power in contemporary secular spaces: The case of an English medical centre
The aim of this article is to examine the way in which knowledge-power is exercised in contemporary controversies in healthcare, and what this flexing of discursive muscles shows about the nature of secularity and its relationship to religion. The discussion is focused on two controversial issues at the heart of general medical practice in the UK: the doctor–patient relationship and complementary and alternative medicine. As will become clear, p…
Secular values and the location of religion: A spatial analysis of an English medical centre
Researching Local and National Pluralism: Britain's New Religious Landscape
Spatial Theory and Method for the Study of Religion
From an examination of recent social and cultura theory and selected work on place and space by scholars of religion I draw together resources for the development of a spatial methodology for the study of religion. In order to identify the key elements of this methodology, I discuss relations between the body and space, the dimensions, properties and aspects of space, the "sacred" and sacralization. Consideration is given briefly to the applicati…
In Every Town and Village: Adaptive Strategies in the Communication of Krishna Consciousness in the UK, the First Thirty Years
The raison d'être of ISKCON is the communication of the name of Krishna worldwide, ensuring that it reaches into the hearts and minds of those in every town and village. ISKCON's own intention, derived from the teachings of Chaitanya and preached unceasingly by the founder, Bhaktivedanta Swami, provides a focus for assessing the success of the movement since its arrival in England in 1968. What strategies have been adopted for achieving this obje…
Issues in the Study of Religions and Locality
This paper is a tentative attempt to explore some of the theoretical and empirical aspects of studying religions in the context of their local surroundings and conditions. Frequently we read, or write, studies of a religion or several religions as it or they manifest in a particular geographical area. In such studies, while a description may be given of the locality, its character, demography, social and eco nomic life, it is rare for these facto…
Notions of Destiny in Women's Self-Construction
What can women become? How is their becoming fashioned? What forces affect it? What sense do they make of their becoming? In this article the author aims to raise issues which pertain to women and their conceptions of destiny, and to consider these in the light of recent feminist analyses. Three issues are discussed: the ‘good woman’, or the impact of gendered norms and expectations upon women's destinies; women's self-construction and the possib…
Three dimensions of religious place making in diaspora
In this article, we explore comparatively how migrant minorities draw from their religious resources to carve out spaces of livelihood in three global cities - Kuala Lumpur, which includes Kajang, Johannesburg and London. We also examine the spatial regimes through which the state and its apparatuses seek to manage the migrants' presence and visibility or invisibility within these urban spaces. In particular, we focus on three of the most salient…
Religion, Space, and Place: The Spatial Turn in Research on Religion
Following a consideration of the impact of the late twentieth-century spatial turn on the study of religion by geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and religious studies scholars, two trends are distinguished: the poetics of place and the sacred; and politics, religion, and the contestation of space. Discussion of these reveals substantially different approaches to religion, space, and place-one phenomenological, the other soci…
Iconic Religion in Urban Space
In order to understand current dynamics of religious diversity, a focus on the tangible presence of religion and the co-existence of new and longstanding religious buildings, sites and artifacts in urban spaces is a fruitful starting point. Launching the notion of iconic religion, this introduction seeks to contribute to developing a scholarly framework for the nexus of religion and the city from a spatial, material, aesthetic and semiotic angle.…
Spatial Theory and Method for the Study of Religion
From an examination of recent social and cultura theory and selected work on place and space by scholars of religion I draw together resources for the development of a spatial methodology for the study of religion. In order to identify the key elements of this methodology, I discuss relations between the body and space, the dimensions, properties and aspects of space, the "sacred" and sacralization. Consideration is given briefly to the applicati…
Spatial Theory and the Study of Religion
A 'spatial turn' has been witnessed in the humanities and social sciences since Henri Lefebvre's La production de l'espace, and its translation into English in 1991. Subsequently, the socio-spatial theories of Lefebvre, Foucault, Certeau and postmodern geographers, such as Soja, Massey and Harvey, have had an impact on research in many disciplines, including religious studies. With its own traditions, of geography of religion and sacred space, it…
Religious and ethnic identity among young Muslim women in Bradford
This article explores the relationship between aspects of religious and ethnic identity for a group of young Muslim women from a school in Bradford. Previous work has tended to give a thematic account of such young women's attitudes to home, education, work, religion, marriage and relationships, and has often concluded that they are either ‘betwixt and between’ or the synthesisers of two distinct cultures. This article discusses then calls into q…
Determinants of recovery 12 months after hip fracture: The importance of psychosocial factors
The independent contributions to recovery from hip fracture of psychosocial factors including depression, personality, social connectedness, and self-rated health were studied in 219 women age 59 and older (mean age 78.5) who were community dwelling prior to fracture. Initial assessments were conducted shortly after surgery and follow up assessments 2, 6, and 12 months later. By 12 months, 15 patients had died and 15 had entered a nursing home. S…
Hindu Women, Destiny andStridharma
Ideas about destiny —about how and why things occur and what they promise for the future —have rarely been discussed in relation to gender. By discussing the sociological and anthropological literature on karma and other sources of misfortune, andstridharma, I provide a context for examining the views of Hindu women on destiny, particularly those living in Britain. In addition to examining their references to a variety of spiritual forces which i…
From locality to location and back again: A spatial journey in the study of religion
In this article, in the context of a retrospective examination of my own research journey from locality to location and back again, I argue for the importance and value of studying religion in local perspective, and reconceptualize ‘locality’ from the perspective of a spatial methodology, in recognition of the critiques made of earlier usage and the demands placed on the term in the context of globalization. Using the example of an urban high str…
Specialness and the sacred: Ann Taves,Religious Experience Reconsidered
Ann Taves proposes an encompassing framework of 'specialness' in which both simple and complex ascriptions of things deemed significant — whether religious, spiritual, magical or ideological — may be contained. Her preference for 'specialness' over other terms is clearly argued, but does not adequately take into consideration recent, comparable research on the 'sacred', in particular the work of Anttonen. Whilst acknowledging the flawed nature of…
Issues in the Study of Religions and Locality
This paper is a tentative attempt to explore some of the theoretical and empirical aspects of studying religions in the context of their local surroundings and conditions. Frequently we read, or write, studies of a religion or several religions as it or they manifest in a particular geographical area. In such studies, while a description may be given of the locality, its character, demography, social and eco nomic life, it is rare for these facto…
Spatial Theory and Spatial Methodology, Their Relationship and Application: A Transatlantic Engagement
THE AIM OF THIS PAPER is to consider further the relationship between theory and methodology in the study of religion by engaging Thomas Tweed's theory of “crossing and dwelling” with my own spatial methodology.1 Both of these were constructed with issues of space, location, position, and movement in mind. In Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion, Tweed writes, “I was looking for a theory that made sense of the religious life of transnation…
Secular values and the location of religion: A spatial analysis of an English medical centre
Ideological Transmission in Extremist Contexts: Towards a Framework of How Ideas Are Shared
Despite their centrality in academic and policy debates about radicalization and political violence, ideologies have been conceived narrowly, as cognitive, top-down, coherent and systematic. In general, those who have used the concept of ideology have failed to draw on ideological theory or on recent insights about its practice and embodiment, or location in space and time. Our interest is less in the content of ideology than in how it is shared …
Inside, Outside and the Space in-between: Territories and Boundaries in the Study of Religion
Insider/outsider issues are of central importance for the definitions of religion and for the identity of religious groups, for the subjectivity and relationships of their adherents, for methodological issues within the study of religions and for the relationship between non-theological and thological studies of religion. Conceptions of 'inside', 'outside' and 'boundary', the emotions surrounding them, their origins in the social relations of bod…
Afterword on Islam and space in Europe: The Dynamism of a Field
This Afterword focuses on the dynamism of the study of Islam and space in Europe. A comparison with Barbara Daly Metcalf's Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe (1996) reveals how much has changed in terms of scholarly approach since its publication. In Metcalf's volume, the frames were migration, mobility and transnational connections. Here, urban diversity, settlement, and secularism are highlighted. Despite a common anthropological f…
Religious Studies and its Relationship with Theology: A Spatial Analysis
Academic disciplines can be understood as tribes with their own territories (Becher 1989) which are protected from outsiders and invested with power and meaning for those within. The language which scholars use to delineate and distinguish them from one another is replete with spatial metaphor and the language of war and struggle. References to inside/outside, inclusion/exclusion, to boundaries, incursions, incorporation, integration and embrace …
Twice Migrants: East African Sikh Settlers in Britain
The Community Religions Project Past and Present
(1988). THE COMMUNITY RELIGIONS PROJECT PAST AND PRESENT. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 8-11
Books
Jeanne Gregory, Sex, Race and the Law: Legislating for Equality London: Sage Publications, 1987, 216 pp., £22.50 h.b., £7.95 p.b. Camilla Palmer and Kate Poulton, Sex and Race Discrimination in Employment London: Legal Action Group, 1987, 189 pp., £14 p.b. John W. Shaw, Peter G. Nordlie and Richard M. Shapiro (eds), Strategies for Improving Race Relations: The Anglo‐American Experience Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987, 226 pp., £25 h…
Determinants of recovery 12 months after hip fracture: The importance of psychosocial factors
The independent contributions to recovery from hip fracture of psychosocial factors including depression, personality, social connectedness, and self-rated health were studied in 219 women age 59 and older (mean age 78.5) who were community dwelling prior to fracture. Initial assessments were conducted shortly after surgery and follow up assessments 2, 6, and 12 months later. By 12 months, 15 patients had died and 15 had entered a nursing home. S…
A Socio-Religious Study of the Hare Krishna Movement in South Africa
Religious and ethnic identity among young Muslim women in Bradford
This article explores the relationship between aspects of religious and ethnic identity for a group of young Muslim women from a school in Bradford. Previous work has tended to give a thematic account of such young women's attitudes to home, education, work, religion, marriage and relationships, and has often concluded that they are either ‘betwixt and between’ or the synthesisers of two distinct cultures. This article discusses then calls into q…
Hindu Women, Destiny andStridharma
Ideas about destiny —about how and why things occur and what they promise for the future —have rarely been discussed in relation to gender. By discussing the sociological and anthropological literature on karma and other sources of misfortune, andstridharma, I provide a context for examining the views of Hindu women on destiny, particularly those living in Britain. In addition to examining their references to a variety of spiritual forces which i…
Issues in the Study of Religions and Locality
This paper is a tentative attempt to explore some of the theoretical and empirical aspects of studying religions in the context of their local surroundings and conditions. Frequently we read, or write, studies of a religion or several religions as it or they manifest in a particular geographical area. In such studies, while a description may be given of the locality, its character, demography, social and eco nomic life, it is rare for these facto…
Notions of Destiny in Women's Self-Construction
What can women become? How is their becoming fashioned? What forces affect it? What sense do they make of their becoming? In this article the author aims to raise issues which pertain to women and their conceptions of destiny, and to consider these in the light of recent feminist analyses. Three issues are discussed: the ‘good woman’, or the impact of gendered norms and expectations upon women's destinies; women's self-construction and the possib…
In Every Town and Village: Adaptive Strategies in the Communication of Krishna Consciousness in the UK, the First Thirty Years
The raison d'être of ISKCON is the communication of the name of Krishna worldwide, ensuring that it reaches into the hearts and minds of those in every town and village. ISKCON's own intention, derived from the teachings of Chaitanya and preached unceasingly by the founder, Bhaktivedanta Swami, provides a focus for assessing the success of the movement since its arrival in England in 1968. What strategies have been adopted for achieving this obje…
Researching Local and National Pluralism: Britain's New Religious Landscape
Spatial Theory and Method for the Study of Religion
From an examination of recent social and cultura theory and selected work on place and space by scholars of religion I draw together resources for the development of a spatial methodology for the study of religion. In order to identify the key elements of this methodology, I discuss relations between the body and space, the dimensions, properties and aspects of space, the "sacred" and sacralization. Consideration is given briefly to the applicati…
Religion, values and knowledge-power in contemporary secular spaces: The case of an English medical centre
The aim of this article is to examine the way in which knowledge-power is exercised in contemporary controversies in healthcare, and what this flexing of discursive muscles shows about the nature of secularity and its relationship to religion. The discussion is focused on two controversial issues at the heart of general medical practice in the UK: the doctor–patient relationship and complementary and alternative medicine. As will become clear, p…
Secular values and the location of religion: A spatial analysis of an English medical centre
Religious Studies and its Relationship with Theology: A Spatial Analysis
Academic disciplines can be understood as tribes with their own territories (Becher 1989) which are protected from outsiders and invested with power and meaning for those within. The language which scholars use to delineate and distinguish them from one another is replete with spatial metaphor and the language of war and struggle. References to inside/outside, inclusion/exclusion, to boundaries, incursions, incorporation, integration and embrace …
Inside, Outside and the Space in-between: Territories and Boundaries in the Study of Religion
Insider/outsider issues are of central importance for the definitions of religion and for the identity of religious groups, for the subjectivity and relationships of their adherents, for methodological issues within the study of religions and for the relationship between non-theological and thological studies of religion. Conceptions of 'inside', 'outside' and 'boundary', the emotions surrounding them, their origins in the social relations of bod…
Spatial Theory and the Study of Religion
A 'spatial turn' has been witnessed in the humanities and social sciences since Henri Lefebvre's La production de l'espace, and its translation into English in 1991. Subsequently, the socio-spatial theories of Lefebvre, Foucault, Certeau and postmodern geographers, such as Soja, Massey and Harvey, have had an impact on research in many disciplines, including religious studies. With its own traditions, of geography of religion and sacred space, it…
Becoming a 'Faith Community': British Hindus, Identity, and the Politics of Representation
This article offers an historical perspective on the process by which British Hindus have sought to become a 'faith community' in response to local civic pressures and the intensification of government rhetoric on harnessing the capacity of religious bodies in support of public policy, and also as an expression of Hindu nationalist and ecumenical interests. I review my earlier analysis of Hindus in Leeds, noting the four processes of institutiona…
Spatial Theory and Spatial Methodology, Their Relationship and Application: A Transatlantic Engagement
THE AIM OF THIS PAPER is to consider further the relationship between theory and methodology in the study of religion by engaging Thomas Tweed's theory of “crossing and dwelling” with my own spatial methodology.1 Both of these were constructed with issues of space, location, position, and movement in mind. In Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion, Tweed writes, “I was looking for a theory that made sense of the religious life of transnation…
From locality to location and back again: A spatial journey in the study of religion
In this article, in the context of a retrospective examination of my own research journey from locality to location and back again, I argue for the importance and value of studying religion in local perspective, and reconceptualize ‘locality’ from the perspective of a spatial methodology, in recognition of the critiques made of earlier usage and the demands placed on the term in the context of globalization. Using the example of an urban high str…
Religion, Space, and Place: The Spatial Turn in Research on Religion
Following a consideration of the impact of the late twentieth-century spatial turn on the study of religion by geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and religious studies scholars, two trends are distinguished: the poetics of place and the sacred; and politics, religion, and the contestation of space. Discussion of these reveals substantially different approaches to religion, space, and place-one phenomenological, the other soci…
Specialness and the sacred: Ann Taves,Religious Experience Reconsidered
Ann Taves proposes an encompassing framework of 'specialness' in which both simple and complex ascriptions of things deemed significant — whether religious, spiritual, magical or ideological — may be contained. Her preference for 'specialness' over other terms is clearly argued, but does not adequately take into consideration recent, comparable research on the 'sacred', in particular the work of Anttonen. Whilst acknowledging the flawed nature of…
Three dimensions of religious place making in diaspora
In this article, we explore comparatively how migrant minorities draw from their religious resources to carve out spaces of livelihood in three global cities - Kuala Lumpur, which includes Kajang, Johannesburg and London. We also examine the spatial regimes through which the state and its apparatuses seek to manage the migrants' presence and visibility or invisibility within these urban spaces. In particular, we focus on three of the most salient…
Métodos Espaciais
Versão portuguesa do capítulo 3.4 do The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion, organizado por Michael Stausberg e Steven Engler. Tradução gentilmente autorizada por Taylor & Francis, proprietária dos direitos autorais da obra
Iconic Religion in Urban Space
In order to understand current dynamics of religious diversity, a focus on the tangible presence of religion and the co-existence of new and longstanding religious buildings, sites and artifacts in urban spaces is a fruitful starting point. Launching the notion of iconic religion, this introduction seeks to contribute to developing a scholarly framework for the nexus of religion and the city from a spatial, material, aesthetic and semiotic angle.…
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