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Since
its foundation in 1975, the Sociology of Religion Study Group
has become the second largest discipline study group within the
British Sociological Association (BSA).
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and and non-specialists in contemporary religious issues and the
sociology of religion. Conferences provide a forum not only for
internationally renowned scholars in the field, but also increasingly
for young academics and post-graduate students. A particular concern
of the Study Group is to encourage younger members of the Group
and to increase the profile of the Sociology of Religion within
Sociology.
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2008:
Eleventh Study Group Postgraduate Conference, Bristol
Religion,
Spirituality and Gay Sexuality,
BSA
Sociology of Religion Study Group
Study
Day, University of the West of England, Bristol,
17
November 2007
2007:
Religion, Media and Culture
St Catherine's College, Oxford.
2007:
Tenth Study Group Postgraduate Conference, Bristol
2006
Study Day
God
Talk in Sociology and Theology
Heythrop College, London.
2006:
Religion and the Individual, Manchester
2006:
Ninth Post-graduate Conference
2005:
Religion and Film Study Day
2005
Study Group Conference: Religion and Gender
2005:
Post-graduate Conference
2004:
Study Group Conference: "A Sociology of Spirituality
29 March to 1 April.
2003:
Religion+Marginalisation Study Day
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What's
New
Study
Day
Belief
and Identity in Late Modernity:
Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries
Saturday
8 November 2008 10-4 pm
University of Sussex
A
Study Day organised by ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Abby Day,
and Prof. Simon Coleman, Department of Anthropology, University
of Sussex,
in conjunction with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group.
Details
and Call for Papers
Annual
Conference 2009
Religion
and Knowledge
30
March - 1 April 2009
St
Chad's College, Durham
Details
soon
Now
Available
A
Sociology of Spirituality
 Kieran
Flanagan and Peter C. Jupp
Series: Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective
Series in Association with the BSA Sociology of Religion
Study Group
£50.00
The
emergence of spirituality in contemporary culture in holistic
forms suggests that organised religions have failed. This
thesis is explored and disputed in this book in ways that
mark important critical divisions. This is the first collection
of essays to assess the significance of spirituality in
the sociology of religion. The authors explore the relationship
of spirituality to the visual, individualism, gender, identity
politics, education and cultural capital. The relationship
between secularisation and spirituality is examined and
consideration is given to the significance of Simmel in
relation to a sociology of spirituality. Problems of defining
spirituality are debated with reference to its expression
in the UK, the USA., France and Holland. This timely, original
and well structured volume provides undergraduates, postgraduates
and researchers with a scholarly appraisal of a phenomenon
that can only increase in sociological significance.
Ashgate
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