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

Wednesday 31st March

8.00 - 9.00

Breakfast

9.15 - 11.00

A

Mathew Guest (and Douglas Davies)
Clergy Children and the Transmission of Spiritual Capital

Marten van der Meulen
Spirituality and social capital in a new Dutch suburb

Elisabeth Arweck

Spirituality in Education: Promoting Children's Spiritual Development through Values

B

Tony Walter
Mediating the Dead and the Living: autopsies, inquests, séances, funerals and obituaries

Keishin Inaba
Implicit spirituality of Japanese charity workers

11.00 -11.30

Coffee

A

Giuseppe Giordan
Spirituality: from a religious concept to a sociological theory

Douglas Davies

Spirituality as a category of self-referential depth

Gordon Lynch
An episteme of discourses of the self: exploring an alternative way of mapping contemporary religion and spirituality in the West

B

Michael Keenan
White Collar Workers: Anglican clergy's perceptions and management of their professional roles

Noel Heather
Completing the Critical Postliberal Model: Sex, Gender and 'Contradictory Construction'

Stephen J. Hunt
The Alpha Course and the 'Gay Issue': A Lesson in Intolerance?

1.15

Lunch


3.30 - 4.00

Afternoon tea

A

'Ben' Pink Dandelion
The Internal Secularisation of Spiritual Intimacy

Brad Christerson
Against All Odds: The Struggle of Racial Integration in Religious Organizations

John Fulton
The effects of 'extended liminality' on the religion and spiritualities of contemporary Western youth and young adults

6.30 - 8.00 Plenary

Linda Woodhead
Spirituality Today: Findings from the Kendal Project

8.15 Conference Dinner

10.00 Bar

Monday 29 March

Tuesday 30 March

Thursday 1 April