LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY – Programme for the Study of Religion and Non-religion FORUM ON RELIGION Date: Wednesday, 23 January 2013 Time: 16.30-18.00 Venue: Seligman Library (OLD 6.05), Old Building, LSE Speakers: Audra Mitchell (University of York) ‘Bringing Secularity (Back) into International Relations: Immanence, Agency and Intervention’ and Stacey Gutkowski (King’s College London, Middle East and … Continue reading
It may be Christmas Eve, but we have just added 58 new items to our ever-growing bibliography. They are pasted in below for your perusal. If you notice any omissions or errors in the bibliography, please do not hesitate to get in touch with Chris. Alicino, F. “Western Secularism in an Age of Religious Diversity.” … Continue reading
In partnership with the Religious Studies Project (RSP) it is our pleasure to bring you the audio recordings of five very important lectures, hosted on the RSP website. The first is the NSRN Annual Lecture from April 2011, recorded at St Mary’s University College in Twickenham: Atheism Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Atheistic Thought Jonathan … Continue reading
Histories of the Sacred and the Secular, 1700 – 2000. Edited by David Nash, Oxford Brookes University, UK Histories of the Sacred and the Secular (pdf flyer) Histories of the Sacred and the Secular 1700 – 2000 reflects the awakened and expanding profile of the history of religion within the academy in recent years. Intending … Continue reading
55 texts, new and old, have been added to the NSRN Bibliography. Happy researching! Ballestero, A. 2012. ‘The Productivity of Nonreligious Faith : Openness, Pessimism, and Water in Latin America’. In Nature, Science, and Religion : Intersections Shaping Society and the Environment, 169–190. Santa Fe; School for Advanced Research Press. Berner, Ulrich. 1990. ‘Religion Und Atheismus’. In … Continue reading
Who would have thought that we would finally get here? In just a couple of hours we will be kicking off the NSRN Conference in a damp and dreary London. For those of you who know what a hashtag is, I just wanted to let you know that we will be using the tag #nsrn … Continue reading
Just in time for the NSRN Conference, Lorna Mumford – one of the new members of the NSRN Online Team – has added a new page to the website which provides links to press articles relating to the NSRN or the work of network members. It is available here: http://nsrn.net/news/nsrn-in-the-news-2/ We hope that you enjoy … Continue reading
The Religious Studies Project have published a half hour podcast with Professor Tariq Modood on the Crisis of European Secularism, recorded at this year’s SOCREL Conference in Chester: http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2012/05/28/podcast-tariq-modood-on-the-crisis-of-european-secularism/ You can download this interview on iTunes. Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy at the University of Bristol. He is founding Director of the … Continue reading
A series of debates on religion in public life, running from February to May 2012 at RUSI, 61 Whitehall, SW1A 2ET, Wednesdays fortnightly, 5.30-7pm. Between 2007-2012 £12m was invested by two research councils, the AHRC and ESRC, in the largest-ever funded research programme on ‘Religion and Society’. In this series leading academics will present findings … Continue reading
Now that things are slowly getting back to normal after the holiday season, we thought some extra reading might be in order. The following items have been added to the NSRN’s bibliography today, and are mostly the result of suggestions from visitors to the website. A huge thanks to everyone who suggested items – please … Continue reading
