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Stephen Bullivant is a professor of theology and sociology at St Mary’s University, UK, and the University of Notre Dame, Australia. His latest book is Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022).
He holds doctorates in Theology (Oxford, 2009) and Sociology (Warwick, 2019). He joined St Mary’s in 2009, having previously held posts at Heythrop College, London, and Wolfson College, Oxford. Professor Bullivant has also held Visiting fellowship at the Institute for Social Change (University of Manchester), Blackfriars Hall (University of Oxford), and the Institute for Advanced Studies (University College London).
Prof Bullivant has published ten books, including: Mass Exodus: Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II (OUP, 2019), Why Catholics Leave, What They Miss, and How They Might Return (Paulist, 2019; with C. Knowles, H. Vaughan-Spruce, and B. Durcan), The Oxford Dictionary of Atheism (OUP, 2016; with L. Lee), and The Trinity: How Not to Be a Heretic (Paulist, 2015). He is currently co-editing a two-volume Cambridge History of Atheism (CUP, forthcoming) with Michael Ruse, with whom he previously co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Atheism (OUP, 2013).
Prof Bullivant’s research has received funding from, among others, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the John Templeton Foundation, the British Academy, Porticus UK, the St Barnabas Society, the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission, the Apostleship of the Sea, and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.
His ongoing studies of contemporary religion in Europe and America are frequently featured by major media outlets, including NBC, Fox News, BBC, Sky News, Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Financial Times, Economist, Spectator, Der Spiegel, La Croix, Il Foglio, and Grazia. Television and radio credits include EWTN, Vatican Radio, Radio 4, Radio 5 Live, Radio 3, and LBC. Prof. Bullivant is consulting editor and writes regularly for the Catholic Herald, as he also has for the Guardian, New Scientist, the Spectator, First Things, America, and the Tablet.