Mark Jennings
Lecturer
School of Arts
Murdoch University
Australia
Biography
Mark Jennings research is primarily in the Sociology of Religion. He has a continuing interest in Pentecostal spirituality and the development of Pentecostalism as a phenomenon in the twenty-first century. He has also written on the relationship between secularisation and religion in the twentieth and early twenty-first century. He also has an interest and expertise in research methods, and the sociology of popular music. His research continues to explore the interaction between theology, philosophy and sociology, particularly as it relates to popular culture and religion.he is an early career researcher, and very much enjoying the process of writing and teaching in the beginning stages of his career
Research Interest
Sociology of Religion, Pentecostal spirituality and the development of Pentecostalism as a phenomenon in the twenty-first century
Publications
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Jennings, M., (2014), Imagining Jesus doing a Whole Lotta Shakin': Pentecostal worship, popular music and the politics of experience, Culture and Religion, 15, 2, pages 211 - 226.
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Jennings, M., (2015), An extraordinary degree of exaltation: Durkheim,effervescence and Pentecostalism's defeat of secularisation, Social Compass, 62, 1, pages 61 - 75.
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Jennings, M., (2017), De-fusing the Horizons? Content Analysis and Hermeneutics, Tropos: rivista di ermeneutica e critica filosofica, , , pages 111 - 127.
