British Sociological Association

Sociology of Religion Study Group


November Study Day Conference 2003

RELIGION +MARGINALISATION

SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER
at Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, 10am - 4pm

 

PROGRAMME

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09.45 - 10.20: Registration and coffee. Reception/Town House 103

10.20 - 10.30: Welcome and introduction to the day Town House 103

10.30-12.30: Group A: Town House 113
Kath Maguire 'Democratising social capital'.

Dr Claire Mitchell: 'Political marginalisation and religious identity'

Dr Stefanie Sinclair: 'The headscarf debate': The marginalisation of Muslims in German parliamentary debates.

Dr Noel Heather: 'Critical post-liberalism and marginalisation: Body language and the Jeffrey John Affair Irony'.

10.30-12.30: Group B: Town House 112
Stephen Hunt: ' Losing your sons to the 'gay scene': Strategies of the Christian anti-gay lobby'.

Michael Keenan: 'Fishers of men: an exploration of gay male clerics' negotiation and management of their sexual, spiritual and professional lives (a work in progress)'.

Jeanette Rehnstrom: 'Within Silence and Fury: Homosexuality and Religion in Ghana'.

Sian Taylder: 'Never the twain shall meet: Female versus male homosexuality in 'traditional' Catholicism'.
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12.30 - 13.30: Lunch Town House 103

13.30-15.45: Group C: Town House 113
Kristin Aune: 'Marginalised, feminist or called by God? Post-feminist female singleness in a British evangelical congregation'.

Dr Sandra Baillie 'Irish Presbyterians and the Jewish Mission in Hitler's Germany'.

Sharon Smith: 'Buddhism and diversity: Multiculturalism and Western Buddhist convert sanghas in inner city London'.

Dr James Sweeney: 'How values are changing'.

13.30-15.45: Group D: Town House 112

Anna Halsall: 'Empowerment or Marginalisation? The identity of Christian girls'.

Greg Smith: 'Marginalisation of religious minority children in multi-faith church primary schools'.

John Walliss: 'Millenarian violence and persecution: a critique of the Hall thesis'

15.45 - 16.00 Close