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Profile of Douglas Cowan
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Douglas Cowan |
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12th August 1921 |
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Saddle River, New Jersey, USA |
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Douglas E. Cowan Ph.D, is Assistant Professor of Sociology & Religious Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Prof. Cowan has a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology/CJC and the UMKC Center for Religious Studies.
Most of Cowan’s work has focused on religion and the Internet and a variety of issues related to boundary-making and identity maintenance in assorted religions and how challenges are met and resolved by religious adherents. Cowan regularly presents his work at a number of conferences, including the annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Center for the Study of New Religions.
In addition to providing peer-review for numerous scholarly journals, he is one of the co-general editors for Nova Religio: The Journal of New and Emergent Religions, and the editor-in-chief of the Religious Movements Homepage Project (www.religiousmovements.org).
Bibliography
- Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet (Routledge 2005)
- The Remnant Spirit: Conservative Reform in Mainline Protestantism (Praeger 2003)
- Bearing False Witness? An Introduction to the Christian Countercult (Praeger 2003).
- Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet Ed. (with Lorne L. Dawson, Routledge 2004)
- Religion on the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises Ed. (with Jeffrey K. Hadden, JAI/Elsevier 2000)
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