British Sociological Association

Sociology of Religion Study Group

Text and Religious Contexts

Plater College, Oxford

9 -12 April 2003

Thursday, 10th April

 
8.00-9.00 am Breakfast
A 9.00-10.20 am William Keenan: The Founder's Tale: From Hagiography to Historiography in Marist Origin Stories
Kim Knott: The Case of the Left Hand: The Location of Religion in an Everyday Text
Chair: Ben Dandelion
B 9.00-10.20 am Karen Lysaght: Pauline Text, Loyalist Context: Exploring the Scriptural Underpinnnings of Contemporary Ethnic Divisions in Northern Ireland
Douglas Davies: Sweated Blood Mormon and Catholic
Chair:
10.30-11.00 am Coffee
11.10-12.40 pm Plenary
Jim Beckford: The Study Group: An Intellectual Auto- Biography
12.45-1.50 pm Lunch
A 2.00-3.20 pm Sylvie Collins: Young People's Relationships to 'Texts' of Popular Culture (Work in progress)
Philip Richter: Keeping a Distance: Churchgoers as a Shifting Religious Context OR Elisabeth Arweck: Religious Text in an
Educational Context: The Case of a New Religious Movement
(work in progress)
Chair:
B 2.00-3.20 pm Peter Collins: There is No Dust in Heaven': Reading the
Shaker Building

David Lehmann: Dissidence and Conformism in Religious
Movements: Catholic Charismatic Renewal and Pentecostalism

Chair:
3.20-3.50 pm Tea
A 4.00-5.20 pm Greg Smith: 'We Don't Do Social': Scripture and Tradition as
the Basis for Faith Based Social Involvement

Kieran Flanagan: Boredom and Religion: Issues of Sociological
Choice
(work in progress)
B 4.00-5.20 pm Tony Glendinning & Steve Bruce: Contemporary Religious
Behaviour and Beliefs: Evidence from Scotland 2001

Miguel Farias & Mansur Lallje: A Social-Psychological Study
of the New Age Movement: Measuring Individualism/
Collectivism in New Agers, Catholics and Non-Religious
People

Chair:
6.00-7.30 pm Dinner
7.30 pm- Bar
7.30- Post-graduate Forum
Chair: Mathew Guest & Neil Eliot

 

Friday, 11th April
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