This research (the first long-term ethnographic study of FOI in Britain) investigates concepts at the heart of FOI - transparency, trust, secrecy, truth, private, public, power and agency. Eighteen months participant observation fieldwork, alongside policy-makers, practitioners,…
This dissertation is a study of how the Roman emperors from Augustus to Constantine participated in Roman religion. Scholars conventionally view Roman religion as a public phenomenon that served to promote social cohesion within the Roman state but did not provide for individual…
This dissertation is an exploration of various theoretical and cultural issues surrounding depictions of religion and spirituality in mainstream entertainment media properties. Such portrayals cultivate particular cultural norms that dictate the conditions of public and private …