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
Ibrahim 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 he also convened the Herbert & Valmae Freilich Project for the Study of Bigotry from June 2019 to September 2020.
After receiving his PhD from the University of Bristol, he was a research fellow at the University of Helsinki for five years.
His research has abidingly focused on the role of religion in nominally secular social spheres, including popular music and sport, the focus of his book Evangelical Youth Culture: Alternative Music and Extreme Sports Subcultures, published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2017, and his edited book Christian Punk: Identity and Performance, also published by Bloomsbury Academic in February 2020.
Ibrahim is currently working on his second monograph, Race, Class and Christianity in South Africa: Middle-Class Moralities, under contract with Routledge, facilitating a small research project on the status of African studies in the ACT, and co-editing the Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, the publication of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion.
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 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.
