• Ph.D., University of Reading, 1995

• Member, editorial board, Pentecostudies

Books

• Alternative Religions: A Sociological Introduction, Ashgate Publishing, October 2003, ISBN 978-0754634102 , ISBN 0754634108
• The Life Course: A Sociological Introduction, February 10, 2005, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 1403914702 , ISBN 978-1403914705
• Religion in Western Society: Sociology for a Changing World, Palgrave Macmillan, March 20, 2002, ISBN 0333945921 , ISBN 978-0333945926
• The Alpha Enterprise: Evangelism in a Post-Christian Era, Ashgate Publishing, October 2004, ISBN 0754650367 , ISBN 978-0754650362
• Christian Millenarianism: From the Early Church to Waco, Indiana University Press, July 1, 2001, ISBN 0253214912 , ISBN 978-0253214911, Editor

Articles

• 'Acting the Part: Living History - Who Joins and Why?', Leisure Studies, 23: pp387-403, 2004.
• 'Saints and Sinners: The Role of Conservative Christian Pressure Groups in the Christian Gay Debate in the UK', Religion-on-Line, November, 2003.
• 'The Alpha Programme: Some Tentative Observations', Journal of Contemporary Religion, 2003, 18 (1): 77-93.
• 'The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement in Britain: Mobilization and Opposition', Journal of Religion and Society, 4, 2002: 1-18.
• 'Deprivation and Western Pentecostalism Revisited: The Case of "Classical" Pentecostalism', Pentecostudies, July, 2002.
• 'Deprivation and Western Pentecostalism Revisited: The Case of Neo-Pentecostalism', Pentecostudies, July, 2002.
• 'The "New" Black Pentecostal Churches: The Growth and Theology of the Redeemed Christian Church of God', Journal of the European Pentecostal Association, 2002.
• The Redeemed Christian Church of God. Black Church Revival in the UK, Pneuma, Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, 2002.
• 'The Jesus Fellowship as a Total Institution', Communal Studies, 2002, (14) (4): 94-107
• '"Neither Here Nor There": The Construction of Identities and Boundary Maintenance of West African Pentecostals', Sociology, 2002, 36 (1): 147-69.
• 'The "Health and Wealth" Gospel in the UK: Variations on a Theme', Culture and Religion, 3 (1), 2001: 89-104.
• 'The British Black Pentecostal "Revival": Identity and Belief in the "New" Nigerian Churches', Ethnic and Racial Studies, 24 (1) 2001: 104-24.
• 'Dramatising the "Health and Wealth Gospel": Belief and Practice of a Neo-Pentecostal "Faith" Ministry', The Journal of Beliefs and Values, 2000: .
• 'All Things Bright and Beautiful: The Rise of the Anglican Charismatic Church', Journal of Evangelical Theology, 13 (1) 2000: 16-34.
• 'The Neill Commission on Party Funding in Britain: Recommendations and Implications', Talking Politics, The Journal of the Politics Association 14 (2), January, 2000.
• '"Winning Ways"': Globalisation and the Impact of the Health and Wealth Ministries', Journal of Contemporary Religion, 2000.