Dr Timothy Fitzgerald
Honorary Research Associate Professor
Intsitute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Researcher biography
BA Humanities, BA (Hons) Religious Studies, PhD (King's College, London), MSc Social Anthropology (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Books
Fitzgerald, Timothy (2011). Religion and politics in international relations: the modern myth. London, United Kingdom: Continuum International Publishing Group.
Fitzgerald, Timothy (2007). Discourse on civility and barbarity: a critical history of religion and related categories. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press.
Fitzgerald, Timothy (2004). The ideology of religious studies. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press.
Book Chapters
Fitzgerald, Timothy (2020). A problem of representation: Buddha Dhamma, the religion of Buddhism, and liberal secular political economy. Secularism, religion, and democracy in Southeast Asia: religion and democracy. (pp. 26-52) edited by Vidhu Verma. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press.
Fitzgerald, Timothy (2017). "Postcolonial remains": critical religion, postcolonial theory, and deconstructing the secular-religious binary. The postcolonial world. (pp. 169-183) edited by Jyotsna G. Singh and David D. Kim. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Fitzgerald, Timothy (2017). Critical religion: "religion" is not a stand-alone category. Theory, religion, critique: classic and contemporary approaches and methodologies. (pp. 435-455) edited by Richard King. New York, NY, United States: Columbia University Press.
Fitzgerald, Timothy (2017). The ideology of religious studies revisited: the problem with politics. Method and theory in the study of religion: working papers from Hannover. (pp. 124-152) edited by Steffen Fuhrding. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004347878_008
Fitzgerald, Timothy (2015). Conclusion: ‘Nations under God’: problems of meaning in contemporary rhetoric. Nations under God: the geopolitics of faith in the 21st Century. (pp. 266-276) edited by Luke M. Herrington, Alasdair McKay and Jeffrey Haynes. Bristol, United Kingdom: E-International Relations.
Fitzgerald, Timothy (2015). Negative liberty, liberal faith postulates and world disorder. Religion as a category of governance and sovereignty. (pp. 248-279) edited by Trevor Stack, Naomi Goldenberg and Timothy Fitzgerald. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004290594_012
Journal Articles
Fitzgerald, Timothy (2022). Japan, religion, history, nation. Religions, 13 (6) 490, 1-36. doi: 10.3390/rel13060490
Fitzgerald, Timothy (2020). Religion, politics, history, and culture a critical response to Daniel Miller (2014). Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 32 (4-5), 386-422. doi: 10.1163/15700682-12341496
Fitzgerald, Timothy (2016). Critical religion and critical research on religion: a response to the April 2016 editorial. Critical Research on Religion, 4 (3), 307-313. doi: 10.1177/2050303216676524
Fitzgerald, Timothy (2015). Critical religion and critical research on religion: religion and politics as modern fictions. Critical Research on Religion, 3 (3), 303-319. doi: 10.1177/2050303215613123