Director's Publications
I BOOKS (published)
Moving People, Changing Places, 48pp, Leeds: Community Religions Project, 2011
(with Seán McLoughlin) eds, Diasporas: Concepts, Identities, Intersections, Zed Books, 2010.
The Location of Religion: A Spatial Analysis, 256pp, London/Oakville CT, Equinox, 2005.
Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction, 139pp, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998. (Winner of the 1998 SHAP Book Award.) Translated into more than a dozen languages.
My Sweet Lord: The Hare Krishna Movement, 112 pp, Wellingborough, Aquarian Press, 1986.
Hinduism in Leeds: A Study of Religious Practice in the Indian Hindu Community and in Hindu-Related Groups, 334 pp, University of Leeds, Community Religions Project Monograph Series, Leeds, 1986.
II PARTS OF BOOKS
(with Elizabeth Poole and Teemu Taira), Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred: Representation and Change, Aldershot: Ashgate (AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Series) (forthcoming).
(with S McLoughlin) ‘Introduction’, K Knott and S McLoughlin, eds, Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities, London, Zed Books, 2010.
(with S McLoughlin) ‘Conclusion: New Directions’, K Knott and S McLoughlin, eds, Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities, London, Zed Books, 2010.
‘Space’, K Knott and S McLoughlin, eds, Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities, Zed Books, 2010.
‘Religion, space and place’, S Coleman and R Sarró, eds, Annual Review of Religion and Culture, 1, Berghahn Books, 2010.
‘Cutting through the postsecular city: A spatial interrogation’, A L Molendijk, J Beaumont, and C Jedan (eds), Exploring the Postsecular: The Religious, the Political, the Urban, pp. 19-38, Leiden, Brill, 2010.
‘Insider/outsider perspectives in the study of religions’, J Hinnells, ed., The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion, New York and London, Routledge, second edition, 2010.
‘Religion, space and geography’, J Hinnells, ed., The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion, New York and London, Routledge, second edition, 2010.
‘Inside, outside and the space in-between: Territories and boundaries in the study of religion’, D Thurfjell and P Jackson (eds), Religion on the Borders: New Challenges in the Academic Study of Religion, pp. 69-101, Stockholm, Södertörn University Press, 2009.
‘How to study religion in the modern world’, L Woodhead, K Kawanawi and C Partridge, eds, Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations, pp. 13-36, New York and London, Routledge, second edition, 2009.
‘A spatial analysis of the relationship between theology and religious studies: metaphors of containment and separation, insider and outsider’, Darlene Bird and Simon Smith, eds, Theology and Religious Studies in Higher Education: Global Perspectives, pp. 117-38, London and New York, Continuum, 2009.
‘“Pyhä” uskonnollisen ja maallisen välisen rajan haastavana kategoriana’, in Tiina Mahlamäki, Ilkka Pyysiäinen & Teemu Taira (eds), Pyhä: raja, kielto ja arvo kansanomaisessa uskonnossa [Sacred: Boundary, Prohibition and Value in Popular Religion], pp. 164-88, Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura [Finnish Literature Society], 2008.
‘Religion, values and knowledge-power in contemporary secular spaces: The case of an English medical centre’, T Ahlbäck and B Dahla, eds, Exercising Power. The role of religions in concord and conflict, pp. 160-181, Åbo, Finland, Donner Institute, 2007.
‘The case of the left hand: The location of religion in an everyday text’, E Arweck and P Collins, eds, Reading Religion in Text and Context: Reflections of Faith and Practice in Religious Materials, pp. 169-84, Aldershot, Ashgate (2006).
‘Researching local and national pluralism: Britain's new religious landscape’, M Baumann and S Behloul, eds, Religioser Pluralismus: Empirische Studien und analytische Perspektiven, pp. 45-68, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2005.
‘Insider/outsider perspectives in the study of religions’, J Hinnells, ed., The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion, pp. 243-58, New York and London, Routledge, 2005.
'Healing the heart of ISKCON: The place of women', E Bryant and M Ekstrand, eds, The Hare Krishna Movement: The Post-Charismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant, pp. 291-311, New York, Columbia University Press, 2004.
'The sense and nonsense of "community"’, S Sutcliffe, ed., Religion: Empirical Studies, pp. 67-90, London, Ashgate, 2004.
'Religion, family and kinship', International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences, pp. 13066-71, Elsevier Science, 2001.
'Hinduism in Britain', H Coward, J Hinnells and R B Williams, eds, The South Asian Diaspora in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States, pp. 89-107, New York, State University of New York Press, 2000.
'Community and locality in the study of religions', T Jensen and M Rothstein, eds, Secular Theories on Religion, pp. 87-105, Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000.
'Autobiography and biography: An overview', S Young, ed, The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion, pp. 76-9, New York, Macmillan, 1998.
'The religions of South Asian communities in Britain', J Hinnells, ed, A New Handbook of Living Religions, pp. 756-75, London, Penguin, 1998.
'The religions of South Asian communities in Britain', J Hinnells, ed, A New Handbook of Living Religions, pp.756-74, London, Blackwells, 1997.
'The debate about women in the Hare Krishna movement', in S. J. Rosen, ed., Vaishnavi: Women and the Worship of Krishna, pp. 87-111, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1996.
'Hinduism in the West', J Hinnells, ed, A New Dictionary of Religions, pp. 555-7, London, Penguin, 1995.
'Women researching, women researched: Gender in the empirical study of religion', U King, ed, Religion and Gender, pp. 199-218, Oxford, Blackwells, 1995.
'From leather stockings to surgical boots and beyond: The Mochis of Leeds', Roger Ballard, ed, Desh Pardesh: The South Asian Presence in Britain, pp. 213-230, London, C Hurst and Co, 1994.
'Men and women, or devotees? Krishna Consciousness and the role of women', Ursula King, ed, Women and the World's Religions Past and Present, 2nd edition, pp. 111-128, New York, Paragon Books, 1994.
(with Sewa Singh Kalsi), 'The religions of Leeds Asian communities', A Mason, ed, Religion in Leeds: A Centenary Volume, pp. 161-179, Cheltenham, Sutton Press, 1994.
'Women and religion in postwar Britain', G Parsons, ed, The Growth of Religious Diversity: Britain from 1945, Vol II: Issues, pp. 199-230, London, Routledge, 1994.
Sociology of Religion Sub-editor, and author of multiple entries on 'Sikhism' and 'New Religions (India)', Michael Pye, ed, The Macmillan Dictionary of Religion, London, Macmillan, 1994.
'The worldviews of Hindu-related new religious movements', Clive Erricker, ed, Teaching World Religions, pp. 143-6, London, Heinemann, 1993.
'Points of view: Transforming interfaith relations', Haddon Willmer, ed, Towards 2020: Futures of Christianity in Britain, pp. 82-102, London, SPCK, 1992.
'Bound to change? South Asian religions in Britain', Steven Vertovec, ed, Aspects of the South Asian Diaspora: Oxford University Papers on India, pp. 86-111, Vol II, No 2, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1991.
'The role of Religious Studies in understanding the ethnic experience', Wytold Tyloch, ed, Studies of Religion in the Context of the Social Sciences: Methodological and Theoretical Relations, pp. 80-91, Warsaw, Polish Scientific Publishers, 1990.
'Religion and Information Technology', Ursula King, ed, Turning Points in Religious Studies, pp. 287-298, Edinburgh, T & T Clark, 1990.
'The great religions of India', The Guinness Encyclopedia, Enfield, Guinness Books, 1990.
'Mata Ki Jay! A Hindu pilgrimage to Ambaji in North Gujarat', Angela Wood, ed, World Religions in Education: An Anthology of Writings, pp. 43-46, Isleworth, Shap Working Party/BFSS RE Centre, 1989.
'Hindu communities in Britain', Paul Badham, ed, Religion, State and Society in Modern Britain, pp. 243-258, Lampeter, Edwin Mellen Press, 1989.
'Strategies for survival among South Asian Religions in Britain', Conflict and Cooperation Between Contemporary Religious Groups, pp. 95- 128, Tokyo, Chuo Academic Research Institute, 1988 (and in Japanese, 'Igirisu ni okeru minami ajia no shukyo no iki nokori senryaku', Shukyokan no kyocho to katto, Tokyo, Koseishuppansha, 1988).
'Other major religions' and 'New religious movements' (Chapters 5 and 6), Terence Thomas, ed, The British: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices 1800-1980, pp. 133-180, London, Routledge, 1988.
'Hindu temple rituals in Britain: The reinterpretation of tradition', Richard Burghart, ed, Hinduism in Great Britain: The Perpetuation of Religion in an Alien Milieu, pp. 157-179, London, Tavistock, 1987.
'Men and women, or devotees? Krishna Consciousness and the role of women', Ursula King, ed, Women and the World's Religions Past and Present, pp. 111-128, New York, Paragon Books, 1987.
'Hindu-related new religious movements', Shap Working Party, World Religions in Education: SHAP Handbook, pp. 141-143, London, Shap Working Party/Commission for Racial Equality, 1987.
'Religion and identity, and the study of ethnic minority religions in Britain', Victor C Hayes, ed, Identity Issues and World Religions: Selected Proceedings of the XV Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, pp. 167-176, South Australia, Australian Association for the Study of Religion, 1986.
III CONTRIBUTIONS TO REFEREED JOURNALS
‛Specialness and the sacred: Ann Taves, Religious Experience Reconsidered’, Religion 40.
‘Theoretical and methodological resources for breaking open the secular and exploring the boundary between religion and non-religion’, Historia Religionum, 2, 2010, pp. 115-133.
‘Spatial theory and spatial methodology, their relationship and application: A transatlantic engagement’, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 413-24, 77:2, 2009.
http://jaar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/lfp031?ijkey=As0qdTInhvvHuT4&keytype=ref
‘Becoming a “faith community”: British Hindus, identity and the politics of representation’, Journal of Religion in Europe, 2:2, pp. 85-114, 2009.
‘From locality to location and back again: A spatial journey in the study of religion’, Religion, 39:2, pp. 154-60, 2009.
‘Spatial theory for the study of religion’, Religion Compass, 2:6, pp. 1102-16, 2008. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121496113/abstract
’Inside, outside and the space in-between: Territories and boundaries in the study of religion’, Temenos, 44: 1, pp. 41-66, 2008.
‘Religious Studies and its relationship to theology: A spatial analysis’, Temenos, 43:2, pp. 173-98, 2007.
‘At home in the secular: A spatial analysis of everyday ritual’, Jaarboek Voor Liturgie-Onderzoek, 23, pp. 45-62, 2007.
With M. Franks, ‘Secular values and the location of religion: A spatial analysis of an English medical centre’, Health and Place, 13:1, pp. 224-37, 2007. www.elsevier.com/locate/healthplace
‘Spatial theory and method for the study of religion’ Temenos, 41:2, pp. 153-84, 2005. http://www.sus.utu.fi/temenos/vol412.html.
‘Britain’s changing religious landscape: Drowning or waving’, Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde, 78:2, pp. 213-29, 2004.
'In every town and village: Adaptive strategies in the communication of Krishna Consciousness in the UK, the first thirty years', Social Compass, 47:2, pp.153-66, 2000.
'Issues in the study of religions and locality', Method and Theory in the Study of Religions, 10:3, pp.279-90, 1998.
'Insider and outsider perceptions of Prabhupada', Journal of Vaisnava Studies, 6:2, pp.73-91, 1998.
'Notions of destiny in women's self-construction', Religion, 28:4, pp.405-12, 1998.
'Hindu women, destiny and stridharma', Religion, 26:1, pp.15-35, 1996.
'The debate about women in the Hare Krishna movement', Journal of Vaisnava Studies, 3:4, pp. 85-109, 1995.
'Contemporary theological trends in the Hare Krishna Movement: A theology of religions', DISKUS: A Disembodied Journal of Religious Studies, 8 pp, 1:1, 1993.
with S Khokher, 'The relationship between religion and ethnicity in the experience of young Muslim women in Bradford', New Community, 19:4, pp. 593-610, 1993.
'The Community Religions Project past and present', Journal of Beliefs and Values, 9:2, pp. 8-11, 1988.
IV OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO JOURNALS AND PAPERS
’The Great Religions: Hinduism’, The Independent with Oxford University Press (supplement), June 2008.
‘Space’, REVER: Revista de Estudos da Religião, 5:4, 6pp, 2005.
http://www.pucsp.br/rever/rv4_2005/t_knott.htm
'The sense and nonsense of "community": A consideration of contemporary debates about community and culture by a scholar of religions.' British Association for the Study of Religions Occasional Papers, 22, British Association for the Study of Religions, pp.22, 2002.
'Writing "A Very Short Introduction to Hinduism"', SHAP World Religions in Education (Special Issue: Can I Teach Your Religion?), pp. 18-20, 1999.
'Insider and outsider perceptions of Prabhupada', ISKCON Communications Journal, 5:1, pp.59-71, 1997.
(with other contributors) 'Taking in the bull by the tail: Responses to the Lingua Franca article', Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion, 26:4, pp. 81-2, 1997.
'Problems in the interpretation of 'Vedic' literature: The perennial battle between the scholar and the devotee', ISKCON Communications Journal, No 2, pp 51-6, 1994.
'Contemporary theological trends in the Hare Krishna Movement: A theology of religions', ISKCON Communications Journal, No 1, pp. 44-51, 1993.
'Hinduism in Britain', Religions in Britain: SHAP Mailing, pp. 10-12, 1986.
'Sorcery, Scientology, swamis and sea monsters: Researchers say religion is still big news in the media!', Religion Today, pp. 3-5, 1: 2/3, 1984.
'From Vasna to Leeds: The changing complexion of popular Hinduism', Resource, 5:1, pp. 2-3, 1983.
V RESEARCH REVIEWS AND RESEARCH REPORTS
The Roots, Practices and Consequences of Terrorism: A Literature Review of Research in the Arts & Humanities (with Al McFadyen, Sean McLoughlin and Mat Francis), 92pp, University of Leeds, http://www.leeds.ac.uk/trs/irpl/research.htm, October, 2006 (for the Home Office).
‘Towards a history and politics of diasporas and migration: a grounded spatial approach’, ‘Flows and Spaces’, Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers, Diasporas, Migration and Identities Working Paper 1, http://www.diasporas.ac.uk/assets/Towards%20a%20history%20and%20politics%20of%20diasporas%20and%20migration.pdf, 2005.
Diasporas, Migration and Identities: AHRC Programme Specification, 17pp, Arts and Humanities Research Council, www.ahrc.ac.uk/dmi, 2005.
Leeds Pilot Faiths Consultation Exercise on Restorative Justice and the Rehabilitation of Young Male Ex-Offenders (with Mat Francis), 51pp, Community Religions Project and Leeds Church Institute for the Home Office, http://www.leeds.ac.uk/trs/documents/leeds_pilot_faiths.pdf, 2004.
The Feasibility of a Faith Forum for Yorkshire and the Humber: Final Report (with Sean McLoughlin and Melanie Prideaux), 77pp, Community Religions Project for Yorkshire and Humber Assembly. 2003, http://www.yhassembly.gov.uk/p_contentDocs/266_1.pdf.
Religious Literacy: A Practical Guide to the Region’s Faith Communities (with David Randolph Horn), 22pp, Yorkshire and Humber Assembly, http://www.yhassembly.gov.uk/dnlds/Religious%20literacy%204th%20ed.pdf, 2002.
'Religious studies, feminist research and gender studies', S. Roseneil, ed., Feminist Scholarship: Within/Across/Between/Beyond the Disciplines, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds, 1999.
'The role of Religious Studies in understanding the ethnic experience', Community Religions Project Research Papers (NS), 7, 26pp, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds, 1992.
'The changing character of the religions of ethnic minorities of Asian origin in Britain: Final Report of a Leverhulme Project', Community Religions Project Research Papers (NS), 11, 60pp, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds, 1992.
'Calculating Sikh population statistics', Sikh Bulletin, 4, pp. 13-22, 1987.
'The Word about us', Leeds Student, 6 March 1987.
'Religion and identity and the study of ethnic minority religions', Community Religions Project Research Papers (NS), 3, 16pp, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds, 1986.
'Community Religions at the University of Leeds', Community Religions Project Research Papers (NS), 1, 14pp, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds, 1984.
'Conventional religion and common religion in the media', Research Bulletin: Institute for the Study of Worship and Religious Architecture, University of Birmingham, 1984.
'Media portrayals of religion and their reception: Final report to the Christendom Trust', 93pp, Department of Sociology, University of Leeds, 1984.
'Conventional and common religion in the media', Religious Research Papers, 9, 18pp, Department of Sociology, University of Leeds, 1983.
With R Toon, 'Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus in the UK: Problems in the estimation of religious statistics', Religious Research Papers, 6, 24pp, Department of Sociology, University of Leeds, 1982.
'Hinduism in England: The Hindu population of Leeds', Religious Research Papers, 4, 24pp, Department of Sociology, University of Leeds, 1982.
'A preliminary document on 'Media portrayals of religion and their reception: A Leeds-based study', 12pp, Religious Research Papers, 5, Department of Sociology, University of Leeds, 1982.
'A statistical analysis of South Asians in the UK by religion and ethnicity', Community Religions Project Research Paper, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds, 1981.
VI WEBSITES; E-PUBLICATIONS
Moving People, Changing Places, http://www.movingpeoplechangingplaces.org/
Diasporas, Migration and Identities, http://www.diasporas.ac.uk/index.htm
(with M Francis) ‘Return? It never left. Exploring the “sacred” as a resource for bridging the gap between the religious and the secular’, Islam and Religious Norms in the Public Sphere, http://rps.berkeley.edu/berkeley_2010_workshop (and in French)
‘Spatial theory for the study of religion’, Religion and Place, Wiley virtualissue on the geography and sociology of religion, 2011, http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-610471.html (Originally published in Religion Compass, 2:6, 2008.)
