British Sociological Association

Sociology of Religion Study Group


2006 Annual Conference

Religion and the Individual

University of Manchester
Hulme Hall
3-5 April 2006

Programme (25 March 2006)
click on links at the bottom of page for Monday and Wednesday

  Tuesday 4 April  
7.30 - 8.55
Breakfast
9.00 - 10.30

Legal perspectives

Legal control over religious employers: The impact of the new law
Peter Griffith

Religion and the individual: A socio-legal perspective
Russell Sandberg

Sacred places as generators of dangerous social capital?
Peter Edge

Islam

Social vs. spiritual/religious capital in explaining philanthropic giving:
A comparison of religious and secular donations in Turkey

Ali Carkoglu

The Nation of Islam's religious and economic influences in reforming and changing personal, religious, marital and economic lives of its UK members
Nuri Tinaz

Religiosity, authoritarianism and Iranian socio-political beliefs: A survey study
Reza Afkhami

10.30 - 10.50 Morning tea/coffee
10.50 - 12.20

Psychology

Introducing the New Indices of Religious Orientation (NIRO): Conceptualisation and measurement
Leslie J. Francis

Religion and the individual: Obsessions, compulsions and religion
Christopher Alan Lewis

The supernatural, mental distress and pastoral care: A qualitative study of clergy conceptions of mental illness
Gerard Leavey

Friends and neighbours

A faith/family balance: How the changes in family life affect the faithful involvement of British Quakers at the beginning of the twenty first century
Judy Frith

Individuality and sociality: Two plots, one narrative?
Peter Collins

Revisiting Max Weber on sects and the meaning of self-assertion (Selbstbehauptung)
David Chalcraft


12.30 - 13.30 Lunch Postgraduate Group Discussion
(over lunch)

13.30-14.25

Study Group Annual General Meeting
14.30 - 16.00

Theoretical perspectives

No man (nor yet woman) is an island - especially where religion is concerned
Eileen Barker

Negotiating the self in progressive spirituality
Gordon Lynch

Religion and death: Individual response to institutional provision
Douglas J. Davies

The impact of religion

Welfare and religion in a European perspective
Martha Middlemiss & Anne Birgitta Yeung

Christianity and sustainable consumption: An investigation of religiosity and consumer behaviours
Miriam Pepper, Tim Jackson & David Uzzell

Religion and the individual: A musicological perspective
Anne Keeley


16.00 - 16.20 Tea
16.20-17.50

Prayer and God images

Young people's spirituality and the meaning of prayer
Sylvie Collins-Mayo

Praying in Dutch society:
The socialization versus individualism hypotheses

Sarah Bänziger

God images and empathy among secondary school pupils in South Africa
Mandy Robbins

Theology

Religion and perceptions of leprosy and AIDS
Robin Gill

Between heteronomy and autonomy: Tracking the limits of belief and belonging in the publications of the Doctrine Commission of the General Synod of the Church of England, 1938-2003
John Breadon

First person plural: Self-unity and self-multiplicity in theology's dialogue with psychology
Léon Turner

 

18.00 - 19.15

Plenary
The empirical study of mysticism: Measurement, correlates and quasi-experimental studies

Ralph Hood, Jr.

19.30 Conference Dinner 
21.00 Bar/social 
     
  Monday 3 April  
  Wednesday 5 April