The ESRC has produced a report and press release on Humanist Funerals, announcing the work of Dr Matthew Engelke, which explores early outcomes from his year researching with and within the British Humanist Association. For more details about the research please contact Dr Mathhew Engelke Email: m.engelke@lse.ac.uk Telephone: 020 7995 6494 or 07800 835403 ESRC … Continue reading
Please find attached below the provisional schedule for the forthcoming NSRN conference, to be held at Goldsmiths, University of London, in July. NSRN 2012 Conference Schedule (provisional) Please kindly circulate widely. To register please visit this link http://nsrn.net/2012/04/23/registration-now-open-for-the-nsrn-annual-conference/ we are pleased to be able to extend the period of ‘early-bird’ registration until 1 June.
Please see below for details of an electronic advance publication of Tariq Modood’s talk at the the annual conference at Chester SocRel. On a personal note I can attest to how thought provoking and insightful I found this lecture, Modood invites comments and it would be interesting to hear people’s thoughts via the NSRN-Discuss. 2011 Paul Hanly … Continue reading
The NSRN announces the publication of a new Events Report by Christopher R. Cotter (NSRN), Rebecca Aechtner (University of Edinburgh) and Johannes Quack (McGill University) on the “Non-Religiosity, Identity, and Ritual” Panel Session at the 2011 annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR), “New Movements in Religion” (September 18-22, 2011). Please see … Continue reading
The call for papers for the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network conference is here! The conference is being held at Goldsmiths University, from 4-6 July 2012 Registration details can be found here Nonreligion and the Secular: New Horizons for Multidisciplinary Research Conveners: Lois Lee (ll317@cam.ac.uk), Stacey Gutkowski (stacey.gutkowski@kcl.ac.uk), and Stephen Bullivant (stephen.bullivant@smuc.ac.uk) … Continue reading
Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey Edited by Ahmet T. Kuru and Alfred Stepan Published by Columbia University Press, February 2012 While Turkey has grown as a world power, promoting the image of a progressive and stable nation, several choices in policy have strained its relationship with the East and the West. Providing historical, social, … Continue reading
The Anthropology students of Goldsmiths University College welcome you to have a public conference being held on Monday 12 March, 2012 and Monday 19 March 2012 The panels are as follows: 12 March Atheism, Land Reborn and Secular Missionaries 19 March Violence, Nationalism and Empathy The panels are a result of a new addition … Continue reading
Part of the Negotiating Religion series, this workshop will investigate the spatial incorporation of religious communities in the city both in the form of the material urban environment, for example in the presence of religious buildings and other faith spaces, and in everyday urban cultures, practices and politics. Questions which will be explored in this … Continue reading
‘Death in modern Scotland, 1855-1955: beliefs, attitudes and practices’ New College, University of Edinburgh, Friday 1 February 2013 – Saturday 3 February, 2013. ‘There remains a huge agenda for death research, offering a unique vantage point for the study of Scottish history’ (Professor Elaine McFarland of Glasgow Metropolitan University, 2004). Since those words were written, … Continue reading
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
