This CFP is the result of a discussion a few of us have been having about putting together an exploratory session at this year’s AAR, in the hope that we can create a group within the AAR yearly program to deal with irreligion/nonreligion and secularism topics going forward. “Irreligion, Secularism and Social Change” Exploratory session, American … Continue reading
Public Lecture : Religion for Atheists Thursday 2 February, 6.30 – 8.00pm Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE Alain de Botton, author of non-fiction essays on themes ranging from love and travel to architecture and philosophy. He founded The School of Life www.theschooloflife.com and Living Architecture www.living-architecture.co.uk Chair: Simon Glendinning, Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, LSE and Director … Continue reading
Please find details below of the latest podcast from the Religious Studies Project, with Carole M. Cusack discussing invented religions, including New Atheism. What is an “Invented Religion”? Why should scholars take these religions seriously? What makes these “inventions” different from the revelations in other religions? What happens when an author does not want their … Continue reading
For those of you living in or near the East Midlands, please find details of the SOCREL Society, Religion & Belief Research Group seminar series below. For more information please contact: Dr. Kristin Aune Senior Lecturer in Sociology Head of the Society, Religion & Belief Research Group Faculty of Education, Health & Sciences University of Derby Kedleston … Continue reading
Call for Papers: Joint BASR/BSA-SOCREL panel on the ‘Public benefit in the study of religion’ with keynote panel speakers Prof. Eileen Barker and Prof. Douglas Davies. BASR annual conference, September 5-7 2012 University of Winchester. Abstracts to Dr Abby Day a.f.day@kent.ac.uk and Dr Bettina Schmidt b.schmidt@tsd.ac.uk by 1 April 2012. Who benefits from the study of … Continue reading
‘Comics, Religion & Politics’ 4-5th September 2012 Lancaster University, UK Alongside the continued popularity of political themes in comics recent years have also seen the rise of religious themes entering into the medium. The aim of this conference is to explore the relationship between comics, religion and politics in greater depth, to show how through … Continue reading
THE CALL FOR PANEL SESSION-PROPOSALS FOR EASR Dear Colleagues, the possibility to submit panel session-proposals to the EASR annual conferense 2012 – Ends and beginningswill soon close down and we will instead open for individual abstract submission first week in February. We therefore kindly ask you who are interested in organising a panel to submit your proposals before the … Continue reading
The 36th Congress of the German Society for Sociolgy (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie – DGS) will be held from 1 -5 October 2012 in Bochum and Dortmund. The Section for Sociology of Religion is organizing a panel on “Religion and Social Inequality” during this conference. The call for paper is only in German, but papers in English are also … Continue reading
What is Phenomenology? Jonathan Tuckett, University of Stirling The first response report has been published by the Religious Studies Project, on today, 20 January 2012. This report responds to the Religious Studies Project Interview with James Cox on ”The Phenomenology of Religion” (14 January 2012), published with the launch of the project this week. About … Continue reading
Registration is currently open for the Men, Masculinites and Religious change, please contact Dr Sue Morgan (s.morgan@chi.ac.uk) for more details about attendance. I have posted the conference outline below, of particular note for the NSRN community is Professor Callum Brown’s paper ‘How men have lost religion since 1940’. The conference is taking place on 20 April 2012 in the … Continue reading
