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Assoc Prof Mark Jennings

BTheol, PhD

HDR Supervisor

Mark Jennings (he/him) is Associate Professor in Religious Studies at Wollaston Theological College and University of Divinity in Australia. He lives and works in Boorloo (also known as Perth), on the lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people. Mark is primarily a sociologist of religion, and his areas of research include Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity; secularisation and post-secularisation; sexuality and discourse; and religion and LGBTQ+ people and issues. His second monograph, Happy: LGBTQ+ Experiences of Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity was published in 2023.

University Appointments

    Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies (Wollaston Theological College)

Teaching disciplines

Religious Studies

Research areas

Pentecostalism; Sociology of Religion; Secularism; Religion and Australian Society; LGBTIQA+ and Faith

Recent Publications

All publications
2024 “My Whole Life Was the Two Suburbs That Surrounded the Church”: LGBTQ+ Participation in Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches as “Greedy Institutions”
2023 “The only way I could please God was to reject my sexuality”: Stories of LGBTQ+ people in Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic churches
2023 Happy: LGBTQ+ Experiences of Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity
2023 Happy: LGBTQ+ Experiences of Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity.
2023 Adiaphora: The Israel Folau Case, Heterodoxy and ‘Orthodox Sexual Desire’ in Conservative Australian Christianity

External Affiliations

  • Anglican Diocese of Perth (Continuing Education Coordinator)
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