Religion and Rethinking the Human The ‘human,’ like that of ‘religion,’ is a category always under contestation. In current Euro-American scholarship and public culture, there is an acute anxiety about humans’ excessive reliance on technology, its environmental costs, and the ominous prospect of a post-human dystopia. These anxieties have been recognised, theorised, and allayed by … Continue reading
Migration is a key concern in secularity studies, regarding the response of non-religious groups to incoming religious practice and the apparent rise of religiosity which appears as religions change and adapt through migration. Call for Papers: Religion on the Move How Motion and Migration influence Religion 10th Conference of the SIEF Working Group on Ethnology of … Continue reading
The “extraordinary” strikes as an interesting ground between organised non-religion and religion, a ground which cannot be easily claimed by either group. The extraordinary may even be an interesting phenomena for exploring the terrain between these two binary positions, allowing for nuance in the field. CALL FOR PAPERS Exploring the Extraordinary 4th Conference 22nd-23rd September, 2012 Holiday … Continue reading
ENDS AND BEGINNINGS, Annual Conference of the European Association of the Study of Religion (EASR) Södertörn University, Stockholm. 23-26 August, 2012 Religion, it has been claimed, is generated by our desire to escape from the tyranny of time. Through certain thoughts and practices, people have sought to evade the end that our temporal existence so … Continue reading
Please note the CFP below for the special Issue “Religion & Globalization”. Areas of interest include the re-enchantment of the world and the transient nature of religious practice. It would be interesting to see included some work on similar negotiations within secular practices and discourses or other view points on the secular. A special issue … Continue reading
Not strictly within the NSRN remit, but there could be some scope for a secular/non-religious comparative paper within the conference. Material Religion in Modern Britain and her Worlds 8-9 June 2012 University of Glamorgan, Cardiff This two-day symposium will explore material cultures of religious belief and faith in modern Britain. As Birgit Meyer, David Morgan, … 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
Perhaps some room for an NSRN panel or presentation; particularly to address challenges to the epistemological models implied in the secularity thesis and structures of modernity and enlightenment thought, assumptions about belief as a central tenet to religion and critiques of secular ideologies outside mono-theistic traditions. The ongoing visibility of religious practices and role of new … Continue reading
ENDS AND BEGINNINGS, Annual Conference of the European Association of the Study of Religion (EASR) Södertörn University, Stockholm. 23-26 August, 2012 This years theme address moments of ending and beginning in the everyday practices of religious ritual and promises of new beginnings offered by the hereafter or a renewed existence. Scholars of secularism and nonreligion may find the the conferences larger … Continue reading
