• Sexuality, gender, desire and spirituality
• Religion and contemporary cultural discourses
• Consumerism and religion
• Religion and the Body, esp. subtle bodies
• Esotericism and New Age religion
• Philosophy of Religion (esp. Feminist and Postmodern)
• Alternative Healing
• Contemporary Angelology
• Mysticism
• Art and Religion

• Book
• Jay Johnston, Angels of Desire: Esoteric Bodies, Aesthetics and Ethics. London: Equinox, 2008 ( ISBN1845533089).
• Book Chapters
• Jay Johnston, “Subtle Anatomy: The Bio-metaphysics of Alternative Therapies.” Medicine, Religion and the Body. Eds. E. B. Coleman and K. White. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2009 (forthcoming). Accepted for publication Nov. 2006.
• Jay Johnston, “Cyborgs and Chakras: Intersubjectivity in Spiritual and Scientific Somatechnics.” Religion and Retributive Logic: Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf. Eds. C. Cusack and C. Hartney. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2009 (forthcoming). Accepted for publication 17.10.2008.
• Jay Johnston, “Subtle Anatomy: The Bio-metaphysics of Alternative Therapies.” Medicine, Religion and the Body. Eds. E. B. Coleman and K. White. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2009 (forthcoming). Accepted for publication Nov. 2006.
• Ruth Barcan and Jay Johnston. “Fixing the Self: Therapeutic Logic and Ideas of Wholeness.” Mediating Faiths: Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Michael Bailey et al. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010, (forthcoming). Accepted for publication Oct. 2008.
• Peer-reviewed Articles
• Jay Johnston and Ruth Barcan, “Subtle Transformations: Imagining the Body in Alternative Health Practices.” International Journal of Cultural Studies 9.1 (2006): 25-44.
• Ruth Barcan and Jay Johnston, “The Haunting: Cultural Studies, Religion and Alternative Therapies.”
• Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. Special Issue The Religious and the Secular 7 (2005): 63-81.

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• RLST2635 Sex, Desire and the Sacred