British Sociological Association

Sociology of Religion Study Group

A Sociology of Spirituality

29th March - 1st April 2004

Clifton Hill House

University of Bristol

Provisional Programme

Tuesday 30th March

8.00 - 9.00 Breakfast

A 9.15 - 11.00

Eileen Barker
The Varieties of Spiritual Experience

Nancy A. Schaefer

Gospel Music as Spiritual Soundscape

Martin Stringer
Ritual, Performance and Spirituality in the Study of Charismatic Worship


B 9.15 - 11.00

Dia Marie Druther
Holistic Harmony: Attitudes and Perceptions Towards Well-being and Spirituality Among Lancashire Aikidoka

Justin Woodman

Demonic Enchantments and Disenchantments in Contemporary Magical Spiritualities

Mary Catherine Burgess

Contemporary Shamanic Practice in Scotland as a Doorway to Understanding: How Religion is Transforming Itself

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee

11.30 - 1.15

A Peter Holmes
Defining and researching spirituality: It's interdisciplinary nature, and some of its domains

David Voas & Alasdair Crockett
Spiritual, religious or secular: Evidence from national surveys

Paul E. Joshua
A Sociology of Spirituality and a Spirituality for Sociology: Teaching and Learning in Tandem?

1.15 Lunch

2.15 Postgraduate forum

3.15 Tour of Clifton Cathedral

4.15 Afternoon tea

6.00 - 7.00

Dinner

7.00 - 8.30

Plenary

Richard Flory and Donald Miller
The Embodied Spirituality of the Post-Boomer Generations

8.40 - 10.10

Plenary

André Droogers
Between secularization and 'religionization': a qualitative Dutch research program

Peter Versteeg
Spirituality on the margin of the church: Christian spiritual centres in the Netherlands

10.10

Bar

Monday 29 March

Wednesday 31 March

Thursday 1 April