British Sociological Association

Sociology of Religion Study Group

Text and Religious Contexts

Plater College, Oxford

9 -12 April 2003

Friday, 11th April

 
8.00-9.00 am Breakfast
A 9.00-10.20 am Malcolm Gold: The Left Behind Series as Sacred Text?
(Work in Progress)
Noel Heather: The 'Linguistic Physics' of Church: Text,
Context and Architext

Chair: Bill Swatos (tbc)

B 9.00-10.20 am Jenny Blain & Robert Wallis: Sites, Texts, Contexts and
Inscriptions of Meaning: Investigating Pagan 'Authenticities
' in aText-Based Society
Martin Stringer: Worship on the Horizon: Exploring
Gadamer, Liturgy and Performance

Chair:
10.30-11.00 am Coffee
A 11.00-12.20 pm Nancy A. Schaefer: Making a Joyful Noise: The Multiple Forms and Functions of Music in Modern Revivalism
Keith Kahn-Harris: The Status of the Musical Text in Religious Popular Music: Some Conceptual Difficulties
Chair: Mathew Guest
B 11.00-12.20 pm Robin Gill: Theological Purity versus Theological Realism
Ewan Ingleby: Betraying Melchizedek: Challenging
Traditional Religious Texts

Chair:
12.40-1.40 pm Lunch
1.45-3.30 pm Author Meets Critic
David Martin & Panel discuss David Martin's Christian
Language and its Mutations
& Christian Language in the Secular
City
(both Ashgate, 2002)
Chair:
3.30-4.00 pm Tea
4.00-6.00 pm AGM of the Study Group
6.30-8.30 pm Conference Dinner
After-dinner speaker: Douglas Davies
8.30 pm- Bar

Saturday 12 April

Thursday, 10th April
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