Robert Vanderbeck, Gill Valentine, Kevin Ward, Joanna Sadgrove and Johan Andersson

Robert Vanderbeck

Robert M. Vanderbeck is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leeds. His research interests involve the contemporary dynamics of social exclusion and inclusion, with particular attention to dimensions of sexuality, age, race/ethnicity, and religion. He is co-investigator on the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme funded project from which the evidence in this paper is drawn. He can be contacted at: r.vanderbeck@leeds.ac.uk

School of Geography
University of Leeds
United Kingdom

Email: r.vanderbeck@leeds.ac.uk


Gill Valentine

Gill Valentine is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leeds. She has published widely on social identities, sexualities, gender, religion, and a range of other issues. She is the recent recipient of an advanced investigator award from the European Research Council.

School of Geography
University of Leeds
United Kingdom

Email: G.Valentine@leeds.ac.uk


Kevin Ward

Kevin Ward is Senior Lecturer in African Religious Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the author of numerous pieces on East African Christianity and the Anglican Communion, including A History of Global Anglicanism (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

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Joanna Sadgrove

Joanna Sadgrove is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Leeds. Her doctoral research focused on religion, sexuality, and HIV-AIDS in Uganda.

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Johan Andersson

Johan Andersson is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Leeds. He is currently completing a manuscript on religion, sexuality, and the geographies of urban encounter, based on fieldwork with US Episcopalians.

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