Advertisement for the post of Postgraduate Part-time Research Assistants The Department of Law is seeking to employ two suitably qualified Postgraduate Research Assistants to work within the research project RELIGARE. These are EU grant funded positions. The project researches the area of: ‘Religious Diversity and Secular Models in Europe – Innovative Approaches to Law and Policy’. … Continue reading
For members of the group interested in secularism and religion in the public sphere and distinctions in the role of policy making, this conference has some scope for inclusion. International Workshop Religion, Politics and Policy-making in Russia: Domestic and International Dimensions Center for EU-Russia Studies (CEURUS), University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia June 6-7, 2012 Organizers: Prof Jerry … Continue reading
Space for secular and non-religious readings of salvation, particularly for those working in a variety of Christian cultural contexts. One Day Conference, Sept 18th 2012, University of Chester The conference will explore how ‘unorthodox’ readings of sacred texts inform salvation experience; how life transformations outside of religious contexts might be considered spiritual; how ideas of … Continue reading
POSTGRADUATES EVENT Aspiring Academics: From Research to Recognition. There are still limited places left for this SOCREL Postgraduate Event at Chester, just before the conference. The event is being sponsored by the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies and runs from Tuesday 27th March (2 pm) – Wed 28th March (2 … Continue reading
A slightly shameless plug of my own work, (but also in keeping with a non-religion and religion discourse) just published on the Religious Studies Project Site. The piece was published by the Religious Studies Project, on 24 February 2012 responds to the Religious Studies Project Interview with George Chryssides on The Insider/Outsider Problem (20 February 2012)
Last minute reminder for an earlier event posting. UCL anthropology department run a weekly Material, Visual and Digital Culture Research Seminar Series Details: Mondays 5 pm- 6.30 pm, followed by drinks Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd floor, 14 Taviton St. The whole series looks great, but of particular interest is Dr. Matthew Engelke’s seminar on … Continue reading
Following the earlier event listing regarding digital media and religion, this event should also be included. The event does not elude to secular spaces, but technology, media and social networking spaces are contested ground for secular and religious meaning making. The conference will address the ways in which religious communities are challenged by these technologies … Continue reading
The secularisation thesis posited that disenchantment would follow modernity, much research has now proved that not only has this reality failed to emerge, but that the vehicle of modernity – technology – has also been a tool for enchantment and religious revival. The conference below explores this relationship, of media and religion and should provide … Continue reading
Sadly registration to this event is now closed, but I wanted to bring it to the attention of the community. The conference addresses one of the key themes in the secularity debate, science. The debate has run long, but hopefully this event will provide a more nuance and complex view of the these categories beyond … Continue reading
Please find details below of the Second Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy, to be held from March 30-April 1 2012. As suggested by its introduction, Japan provides a cultural setting where religion and the secular meet so it may be of interest to those scholars of secular moral and ethical frameworks. The International Academic … Continue reading
