Surveillance & Religion Network

This international network is being developed to facilitate interaction amongst scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers who have an interest in the surveillance by and of religious communities. Positioned with the field of surveillance studies, this network takes an inter-disciplinary approach that includes, but is in no way limited to, the disciplines of theology, religious studies, ethics, philosophy, history, sociology, criminology, international relations, and information technology studies.
The more specific aims of the network are to:
:: convene occasional seminars, including online events
:: encourage research by individual scholars
:: secure funding for collaborative projects
:: contribute to informing policy-makers within religious communities and wider societies.

As a new initiate, the network is keen to make connections as widely as possible and encourages anyone with interests in this field to make contact.

Find the network's group on Facebook and on LinkedIn.

The coordinator of the network is Dr Eric Stoddart, Associate Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion & Politics, which is based at the School of Divinity, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Contact: es61@st-andrews.ac.uk. The development of the network is assisted by Jason Bosworth, a CSRP intern.

Research activity

E. Stoddart, Theological Perspectives on a Surveillance Society: Watching and Being Watched (Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming), 89, 000 words.

E. Stoddart, 'Surveillance Policy in Scotland' in M.S. Leith & I. McPhee, Scottish Devolution and Social Policy: Evidence from the First Decade (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming), 6, 800 words.

E. Stoddart, 'A Surveillance of Care - Evaluating Surveillance Ethically' in K. Ball, K. Haggerty & D. Lyon, eds., Routledge International Handbook of Surveillance Studies (Routledge, forthcoming), 5, 000 words.

E. Stoddart, 'The risk of "risk"', The Bible in Transmission Summer 2010, 2, 540 words.

E. Stoddart, 'Caring Surveillance and Terrorism', short paper at A Global Surveillance Society? conference, City University London, April 2010.

E. Stoddart, 'Living in a Surveillance Society', University of St Andrews Open Association Lecture, 29 October 2010.

E. Stoddart, Podcast interview, 'Surveillance' on STAR (St Andrews Radio), 30 October 2010.