Prof John Anderson

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2931

Email

jpa@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Religion and politics in the post-Soviet space, Europe and the USA. Politics and the arts, primarily music, though this is currently being developed through teaching with a eye on future research projects.

Member of the Centre for Russian, Soviet and Central and Eastern European Studies at the University of St Andrews.

PhD supervision

• Blake Empey
• Sandra Park

Selected publications

• Grace Davie and Lucian N. Leustean (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe

  Anderson, J., 17 Mar 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Theology. 126, 2, p. 153-154 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Open access

  Welcoming the stranger among us? The Church of England, immigration and race, 1955-79

  Anderson, J. P., 22 Oct 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Church and State. Advance article, 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Religion, state and ‘sovereign democracy’ in Putin’s Russia

  Anderson, J. P., 1 Jul 2016, In: Journal of Religious and Political Practice. 2, 2, p. 249-266 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  'On very slippery ground': the British churches, Archbishop Fisher and the Suez crisis

  Anderson, J. P., 2015, In: Contemporary British History. 29, 3, p. 341-358 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  The Tory party at prayer? The Church of England and British politics in the 1950s.

  Anderson, J. P., 2015, In: Journal of Church and State. Advance access

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Conservative Christian politics in Russia and the United States: dreaming of Christian nations

  Anderson, J. P., 9 Oct 2014, Abingdon; New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 196 p. (Routledge studies in religion and politics)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Rocks, Art, and Sex: The “Culture Wars” Come to Russia?

  Anderson, J. P., 2013, In: Journal of Church and State. 55, 2, p. 307-334

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Sovereignty vs liberalism: some Russian Orthodox responses to democracy and pluralism

  Anderson, J. P., 2013, Risky liaisons? Democracy and Religion: Reflections and Case Studies. Buijs, G. J., Sunier, J. T. & Versteeg, P. G. A. (eds.). VU University Press, p. 161-177 (Amsterdam Studies in Theology and Religion; vol. 4).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Dreaming of Christian nations in the USA and Russia: the importance of history

  Anderson, J. P., 2012, In: Journal of Transatlantic Studies. 10, 3, p. 201-221

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Conservative Christianity, the global south, and the battle over sexual orientation

  Anderson, J. P., 2011, In: Third World Quarterly. 32, 9, p. 1589-1605 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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