Linda Woodhead is Professor of Sociology of Religion in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University. She was Director of the £12m AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme 2007–13 and is Chair of the Theology and Religious Studies REF sub-panel and a member of the ESRC. Her books include Christianity: A Very Short Introduction (2nd ed., 2014), Prayer in Religion and Spirituality (with Giuseppe Giordan, 2013), Everyday Lived Islam in Europe (with Nathal Dessing and Nadia Jeldtoft, 2013), Religion and Change in Modern Britain (with Rebecca Catto, 2012), A Sociology of Religious Emotions (with Ole Riis, 2010), Religions in the Modern World (2009), and The Spiritual Revolution (with Paul Heelas, 2005).