Gary D. Bouma‘s research has primarily focused on the interaction between religion and society in Western societies including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Current work includes a major study of religious plurality in multicultural Australia which makes strategic comparisons with other societies; research into the management of religious diversity and continuing work on Post-Modernity as a context for interfaith dialogue and theological reflection.

He is the UNESCO Chair in Intercultural and Interreligious Relations – Asia Pacific, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Monash University, and the Australian Node of the Religion and Diversity Project, University of Ottawa. Author or Co-Author of over 25 books and 300 articles, he has been invested as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to Sociology, to Interreligious Relations and to the Anglican Church of Australia.

• Bouma, Gary D., and Anna Halafoff. “Australia’s changing religious profile—Rising Nones and Pentecostals, declining British Protestants in superdiversity: Views from the 2016 Census.” Journal for the Academic Study of Religion 30, no. 2 (2017): 129-143.
• Ezzy, Douglas, Gary Bouma, Greg Barton, Anna Halafoff, Rebecca Banham, Robert Jackson, and Lori Beaman. “Religious diversity in Australia: Rethinking social cohesion.” Religions 11, no. 2 (2020): 92.