Adam Possamai

Who is Adam Possamai?

Adam Possamai is a sociologist born in Belgium and living in Australia. Possamai is Associate Professor in Sociology and the Co-Director of the Religion and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is married to Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, and lives in the south-western suburbs of Sydney with his family.

Possamai is the former President of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions. He was the 2002-2007 co-editor of the Australian Religion Studies Review and is the President of the sociology of religion section of the International Sociological Association.

At present Possamai is researching the interrelation between migrants and New Religious Movements, the implications of consumer and popular culture on religion, law and religion, popular religion in postmodernity, Muslim indigenous populations and Sydney as a post-secular city.