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
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
(26 August – 2 September 2012, Antwerp, Belgium) We would like to draw your attention to the call for applications for the 2012 UCSIA summer school on “Religion, Culture and Society”. This summer school is a one-week course taking place from Sunday 26 August until Sunday 2 September (dates of arrival and departure). This year … Continue reading
AHRC/ESRC RELIGION AND SOCIETY PROGRAMME 5th to 7th September 2012 The Divinity School, St John’s College, Cambridge, CB2 1TW Call for Papers The fact that religion has not privatised, but remains an important aspect of public life, is now well recognised. But talk of ‘public religion’ can be vague and unfocused. The aim of this conference … Continue reading
2012 Annual Meeting August 17-18 – Denver, Colorado Religion and Social Change Papers and discussion sessions on all themes within the sociology of religion are welcome, but especially those related to the meeting theme, including, but not limited to, the following: Religion is both an agent and a product of social change. Closely linked to … Continue reading
WESTMINSTER FAITH DEBATES The first Faith Debate Religious Identity in ‘Superdiverse’ Societies is tonight, Wednesday, 8th February 2012 at RUSI, 61 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2ET. A few places are still available and if you would like to register, please email relsocpr@lists.lancs.ac.uk The academic papers for the debate are now available to download: http://www.religionandsociety.org.uk/faith_debates/identity and speaker Professor Kim Knott has a piece on it in … Continue reading
