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 Tuesday

  Wednesday 5 April  
7.30 - 8.55
Breakfast
9.00 - 9.15 Vacate rooms (by 10.00) - leave baggage in JCR
9.15 - 10.45

Identity

Believing in belonging: A qualitative analysis of being Christian for the 2001 census
Abby Day

Religious identity in late modernity: An empirical and theoretical study
James Sweeney & Anthony Carroll

Presbyterian identities in Ireland today
Sandra M. Baillie

Individuals and institutions

Institutional work, community control and 'enchanted' individualism within the Assemblies of God of French Polynesia
Yannick Fer

Development of the religious self: A theoretical foundation for measuring religious identity
David M. Bell

Intellectuals, individualism and moral critique: Sacred sources of the apparently secular
Peter McMylor

10.45 - 11.15 Morning tea/coffee
11.15 - 12.30

Plenary
Religion, culture and mental health: Some issues
Kate Loewenthal

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.00

Religious practice

Religious practice and the individual: Copying the Bible in Korean Christianity
Chang-Won Park

How Christian Scientists see their faith in relation to their health
Robin Harragin

Slumber suppressed: Towards problematising Christian sleep discipline
Anja Finger

Dialogue with Islam

Who speaks for the community? Beeston after the bombings
Melanie Prideaux

Speaking of interfaith peacemaking: Symbolic interactionism in exemplar Muslim and Christian peacemakers
Joshua P. Morgan, Kevin Reimer & Al Dueck

15.00-15.30 Afternoon tea
  Monday 3 April  
  Tuesday 4 April