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  1. The Church Must Grow or Perish: Robert H. Schuller and the Business of American Christianity

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  2. Review of Richard Pitt: Church Planters: Inside the World of Religion Entrepreneurs (OUP, 2022)

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  3. Review of Robert Beckford's Decolonizing Contemporary Gospel Music Through Praxis (Bloomsbury 2023)

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  4. Review of "Shop Window, Flagship, Common Ground" (SCM Press, 2019) by Judith Muskett

    Article • Practical Theology, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  5. Review of "God in Sound and Silence" (Pickwick Publications, 2018) by Danielle Anne Lynch

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  6. Review of "Singing the Rite to Belong" (Oxford University Press, 2017) by Helen Phelan

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  7. Review of The Grace of God & the Grace of Man: Theologies of Bruce Springsteen by Azzan Yadin-Israel

    Article • Journal of Religion Media and Digital Culture, April 2018, Brill

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  8. Review of Jason C Bivins' "Spirits Rejoice" (Oxford University Press, 2015)

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  9. Religion and Western Popular Music

    Article • Modern Believing, January 2017, Liverpool University Press

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts, Dr Clive Marsh

  10. On listening to “The Scarlet Tide” (by T Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello) from Cold Mountain: a movie song and its afterlife

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, December 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  11. The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, August 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  12. Listening as religious religious practice (2): Qualitative data

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  13. Listening as religious religious practice (1): Quantitative data

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, December 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  14. An analysis of organizational storytelling in a group of churches.

    Article • November 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  15. The place of silence in church history

    Article • Implicit Religion, July 2014, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  16. Anglicanism: Confidence, Commitment and Communion

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  17. Personal Jesus: How Popular Music Shapes Our Souls by Clive Marsh and Vaughan S. Roberts, Baker Academic, 2012 (ISBN 978-0-8010-3909-6), xv + 234 pp., pb $22.99

    Article • Reviews in Religion and Theology, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  18. Religion and Hip Hop

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  19. Clive Marsh and Vaughan S. Roberts, Personal Jesus: How Popular Music Shapes Our Souls

    Article • Theology, January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  20. Clive Marsh and Vaughan S. Roberts, Personal Jesus: How Popular Music Shapes Our Souls

    Article • Homiletic, December 2013, Vanderbilt University Library

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  21. Augustine on Time and the Body

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  22. Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  23. Religion in Human Evolution

    Article • Implicit Religion, October 2012, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  24. How religion and pop music interact.

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, October 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  25. Fan-Site Religion and U2

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, October 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  26. Book Reviews

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, October 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  27. Book Reviews

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, December 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  28. What does it mean to live in a secular age?

    Article • Implicit Religion, August 2009, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  29. A sacramental viewing of Atonement: The Movie

    Article • Implicit Religion, February 2009, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  30. Water as a metaphor for change in church ministry.

    Article • Implicit Religion, March 2007, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  31. McDonaldization and church ministry.

    Article • Reviews in Religion and Theology, April 2001, Wiley

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  32. Christian tropes in Verhoeven's movies

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, May 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  33. Literature Review. Rhetoric and Discourse in HRM

    Article • Management Learning, March 1998, SAGE Publications

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  34. Metaphors, ministry and theology

    Article • Modern Believing, July 1997, Liverpool University Press

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  35. UK university chaplaincy ministry in late 20th century

    Article • Theology, July 1997, SAGE Publications

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  36. University chaplaincy ministry in late 20th century

    Article • Theology, November 1992, SAGE Publications

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  37. Liturgical change in late 20th century ministry

    Article • The Modern Churchman, January 1989, Liverpool University Press

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts

  38. 'Folk Music' in Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music (2017)

    Article • Bloomsbury Academic

    Dr Vaughan S Roberts