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Daniel Winchester joined the Purdue faculty in 2014. His scholarship broadly focuses on answering questions about how culture shapes human subjectivity and action, with particular attention to the sociological study of religion. His research aims to empirically and theoretically account for social cognitive processes in cultural phenomena such as rituals, symbols, narratives, bodily techniques/practices, and material artifacts that influence people's experiences of the world. Winchester has conducted ethnographic studies of religious conversions to Islam and Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the United States, and he is currently writing a book analyzing the consequences of Evangelical missionary organizations producing particular images and understandings of 'the global'. This book is tentatively entitled 'World Mission Field: Mission Mobilization and the Evangelical Global Imaginary'. His research has appeared in journals such as Social Forces, Sociological Theory, Poetics, Sociology of Religion, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and he has received awards from the Culture, Religion, and Theory Sections of the American Sociological Association.
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