Dr Ibrahim Abraham
Areas of expertise
- Sociology 1608
- Cultural Studies 2002
- Religion And Religious Studies 2204
Research interests
- The social scientific study of religion
- The social scientific study of popular and youth culture
- The social scientific study of multiculturalism and social identities
- The social scientific study of contemporary Africa (esp. South Africa)
Biography
After receiving my PhD from the University of Bristol, I was a research fellow at the University of Helsinki for five years. I joined the ANU in late 2018 as the Hans Mol Research Fellow in Religion and the Social Sciences, based in the Humanities Research Centre where I also convened the Herbert & Valmae Freilich Project for the Study of Bigotry from June 2019 to September 2020.
My research has abidingly focused on the role of religion in nominally secular social spheres, including popular music and sport, the focus of my book Evangelical Youth Culture: Alternative Music and Extreme Sports Subcultures, published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2017, republished in 2019, and my edited book Christian Punk: Identity and Performance, also published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2020.
My second monograph, Race, Class and Christianity in South Africa: Middle-Class Moralities will be published by Routledge in August 2021. I am currently facilitating a small research project on the status of African studies in the ACT, a research proejct on Christianity and "serious" lesiure, and co-editing the Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, the publication of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion.
Fuller, updated lists of my publications are available from the links at the bottom of this page.
Publications
- Abraham, I & Jarvenpaa, T 2020, 'The ruptures and reconfigurations of identity through Christian Hip Hop in Southern Africa', in E D Gault, T Harris (ed.), Beyond Christian Hip Hop: A Move Towards Christians and Hip Hop, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 181-204.
- Abraham, I 2020, 'Christian Punk in (Post)secular Perspectives', in Ibrahim Abraham (ed.), Christian Punk: Identity and Performance, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 157-173.
- Abraham, I & Stewart, F 2020, 'Straight Edge Evangelicalism and DIY Spirituality', in Ibrahim Abraham (ed.), Christian Punk: Identity and Performance, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 67-83.
- Abraham, I 2020, 'Introduction: Studying Christian Punk', in Ibrahim Abraham (ed.), Christian Punk: Identity and Performance, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 1-17.
- Abraham, I 2020, 'Conclusion: Performing Christian Punk Identity', in Ibrahim Abraham (ed.), Christian Punk: Identity and Performance, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 193-198.
- Abraham, I, ed., 2020, Christian Punk: Identity and Performance, Bloomsbury Academic, London.
- Abraham, I 2020, 'Yinger, J. Milton', in A Possamai & A J Blasi (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, pp. 923-924.
- Abraham, I 2020, 'Religion after work: Christianity, morality, and serious leisure', in E Bell, S Gog, A Simionca & S Taylor (ed.), Spirituality, Organization and Neoliberalism: Understanding Lived Experiences, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 149-170.
- Abraham, I 2019, 'Singing the Congregation: How the Contemporary Worship Music Forms Evangelical Community', Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 766-767.
