• The Religious Studies Project; Lancaster University
• Website: religiousstudiesproject.com
• Twitter: @the_cotter_man

Christopher R. Cotter (Founding Editor and Podcast Co-Host at the Religious Studies Project) is a Ph.D. Candidate at Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses upon the discourses on ‘religion’ in the South Side of Edinburgh, the concepts of ‘non-religion’ and ‘the secular’, and the ensuing theoretical implications for Religious Studies. His previous degrees at the University of Edinburgh focused upon ‘New Atheism’ and alternative typologies of ‘non-religion’. Chris has published journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews in these areas. He is co-editor of Social Identities between the Sacred and the Secular with Abby Day and Giselle Vincett (Ashgate, 2013), and the forthcoming collection After World Religions: Reconstructing Religious Studies (with David G. Robertson, Routledge, 2016). He is also Co-Director at the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network.