All Stories

  1. Understanding Deconversion: Exploring Why and How People Leave a High-Control Religion and Develop Alternative Worldviews

    Article • Secularism and Nonreligion, January 2026, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    James Murphy

  2. Piecing Everything Together Again: Exploring the Experiences of Ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses and How to Support Them

    Article • International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, June 2025, Taylor & Francis

    James Murphy

  3. Allah has told us everything: An interpretative phenomenological analysis exploring the lived experiences of British Muslims

    Article • Archive for the Psychology of Religion, March 2023, SAGE Publications

    James Murphy

  4. Seeing is Believing: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Experiences of the ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ in Britain

    Article • Secularism and Nonreligion, January 2023, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    James Murphy

  5. A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Pawel Lowicki, Angelo Brandelli Costa, Walter Sowden, Prof. Michelangelo Vianello, James Murphy

  6. Quantifying religiosity: a comparison of approaches based on categorical self-identification and multidimensional measures of religious activity

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    James Murphy

  7. ‘I Believe in Something; I Don’t Know What It Is’: An Exploration of Five British Hindus’ Worldviews Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

    Article • Secularism and Nonreligion, January 2022, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    James Murphy

  8. Three Approaches to Teaching Secularism in Religious Studies

    Article • Implicit Religion, December 2019, Equinox Publishing

    James Murphy

  9. Theory, Method, and Implicit Religion

    Article • Implicit Religion, November 2018, Equinox Publishing

    James Murphy

  10. Exploring belief systems in the real world by looking beyond common labels.

    Article • Archive for the Psychology of Religion, May 2017, SAGE Publications

    James Murphy

  11. A review of 'The Buddha Pill: Can meditation change you?'

    Article • Secularism and Nonreligion, April 2017, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    James Murphy