British Sociological Association

Media, popular culture and emerging forms of religion

Lecture theatre,
Manor Road building

Ellen Moore: 'Evangelicals and the Da Vinci code: how media and popular culture change everyday religious practices'

Helen Cameron: 'Coffee shops and book groups: The influence of popular culture on the changing organisational form of the local church'

Dani Kirby: 'Pulp fiction and the revealed text: an inquiry into the treatment of fantasy and science fiction narratives within the Otherkin community'

The role of media in religious change and conflict

Seminar Room A,
Manor Road building

Sarah Page: 'Women and Priesthood: integration, representation, and the influence of the media'

Saleem Khan: 'Religion, media and sectarian culture in Pakistan'

Oana Romocea: 'The role of religious media in a transitional society'

Religion, spirituality and practices of everyday life

Seminar Room C,
Manor Road building

Suzanne Newcombe: 'The Popular Appeal of Yoga in Britain: Timeless Spirituality, Health and Beauty'

Rumy Hasan: 'Critical remarks on the veiling of women in Islam'

Allyson Jule: 'Talk and silence as performances of devotions: gendered tendencies in two Evangelical Christian college classrooms'

Lecture theatre,
Manor Road building

Richard Lindsay: 'Camp and kerygma: queer sensibility in Hollywood biblical epics'

Nasrin Sadegh-Vaziri: 'Islamized cinema: women in Iranian post-revolutionary cinema'

Melanie Wright: 'Filming "fundamentalism": re-viewing "My Son the Fanatic" after 7/7

Seminar Room A,
Manor Road building

Laura Feldt: The enchantment of the everyday: religious narrative, fantasy narrative, and Harry Potter

Carlton Johnstone: 'Marketing God and hell: strategies, tactics and textual poaching'

Jennifer Sinclair: 'From mastery to mysticism: cultural intermediaries' negotiations with the spiritual and religious'

Religion and the Internet #1

Seminar Room C,
Manor Road building

Stephen Jacobs: 'Virtually sacred: setting apart religious cyberspace'

Isabelle Jonveaux, 'Retraite dans la Ville: exploring a Lenten retreat in cyberspace'

Sarah Salzano: 'What is 'on': an exploration of iconographical representation of traditional religious organizations on the homepages of their websites'

18.30

Plenary session:
The changing face of religion in a media age

Lynn Schofield Clark:
'Fashion Bibles and Muslim Pop: The Emergence of Religious Lifestyle Branding in the West'

Nick Couldry:
'Media Rituals: From Durkheim on ritual to Jade Goody on religious toleration'

Lecture Theatre,
Manor Road building