There were some issues with the link for this this article, but this has now been resolved, link here The Council for Secular Humanists has published a paper by Frank L. Pasquale, titled “The Social Science of Secularity“ Following a failure of irreligious studies to get off the ground in 1971, the purposeful study of the … Continue reading
The Council for Secular Humanists has published a paper by Frank L. Pasquale, titled “The Social Science of Secularity“ Following a failure of irreligious studies to get off the ground in 1971, the purposeful study of the non-religious has again attempted flight and seems to be rocketing, as a subject in its own right, as much … 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
Julian Baggini continues his conversation on the topic of religion and non-religion with his latest post You don’t have to be religious to pray … but it helps This week, Baggini muses on prayer.”I think many religious rituals are like this. They have real benefits, whether you buy into the belief system behind them or not. … Continue reading
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 non-religious funerals, commemoration and funerals in London: February … 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
The first article published in Vol 1, January 2012, Stephen M. Merino, Irreligious Socialization? The Adult Religious Preferences of Individuals Raised with No Religion ABSTRACT: Recent birth cohorts of Americans are more likely than previous cohorts to be raised outside of a religious tradition. In addition, those raised with no religion are increasingly likely to have no … Continue reading
The draft programme for the 2012 Sociology of Religion Study Group of the British Sociological Association (SOCREL) – Religion and (In)Equalities – has recently been announced, and is available here. The conference dates are 28-30 March 2012 at the University of Chester, UK. The entire programme looks thoroughly stimulating, and contains a number of papers … Continue reading
We are extremely excited to announce the publication of the Journal of Contemporary Religion Vol. 27, No. 1 January 2012 Special Issue: Non-religion and Secularity This special edition of the Journal of Contemporary Religion is a publication resulting from the NSRN’s inaugural conference in Dec. 2009. At that time, work in progress vastly outweighed completed empirical work in the … Continue reading
Journal of Contemporary Religion Vol. 27, No. 1 January 2012 Special Issue: Non-religion and Secularity Peter B. Clarke: Tributes Articles Stephen Bullivant & Lois Lee - Interdisciplinary Studies of Non-religion and Secularity: The State of the Union David Voas & Siobhan McAndrew - Three Puzzles of Non-religion in Britain Jonathan A. Lanman - The Importance of Religious Displays for … Continue reading
