Adam Possamai

Adam Possamai is Professor in Sociology and Director of Research in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University. He is the (co)author and (co)editor of a dozen academic books, 5 novels, and close to 80 refereed articles and book chapters. He is the past President of the International Sociological Association's Committee 22 on the Sociology of Religion. He has been a visiting Professor at the City University of New York and the �cole des Hautes �tudes en...See more

Adam Possamai is Professor in Sociology and Director of Research in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University. He is the (co)author and (co)editor of a dozen academic books, 5 novels, and close to 80 refereed articles and book chapters. He is the past President of the International Sociological Association's Committee 22 on the Sociology of Religion. He has been a visiting Professor at the City University of New York and the �cole des Hautes �tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His latest books are Religions, Nations and Transnationalism in Multiple Modernities (edited with Patrick Michel and Bryan Turner, 2017, Palgrave McMillan), Religion and Non-Religion among Australian Aboriginal Peoples (edited with James Cox, 2016, Routledge), The Sociology of Shari'a: Case Studies from Around the World (edited with James Richardson and Bryan Turner, 2015, Springer) and the novel L'histoire extraordinaire de Baudelaire (2017, Rivi�re Blanche). See less