British Sociological Association

Between secularization and sacralization: an interdisciplinary approach #1

Lecture theatre,
Manor Road building

Respondent: Linda Woodhead

Johan Roeland (in collaboration with Peter Versteeg): 'Signification between concept and experience: The methodological importance of the experiential approach in the study of religion'

Kim Knibbe: 'Studying the local logic of moral orientation'

Edien Bartels and Martijn de Koning: 'Contested identities: the case of Muslim identities in Holland'

Rhea Hummel: "I wanted to be Tristan, Superman or an Übermensch": The influence of literature on worldview construction among writers and artists

Seminar Room A,
Manor Road building

Caitriona Noonan: 'V for Vendetta and Children of Men: critique and prophecy of religion in the future.

Duane Bell: 'End of Days, the Last Book and the Arockalypse: Scripture as a source for popular mythology'

John Wallis: 'Apocalypse and Film'

Seminar Room B,
Manor Road building

Rina Arya: 'Recovering the sacred after the death of God: the religiosity of retail therapy'

Claudia May: 'Ritualism, football hooliganism and the evolution of a crusade ethos: masculinity and violence in Alan Clarke's "The Firm"

Douglas Golding: 'The good, the bad and the ugly: religion, media and popular culture in a changing Australia'

Young people, media and religion

Seminar Room C,
Manor Road building

Elisabeth Arweck & Eleanor Nesbitt: 'Exploring young people's religious identities: issues in combining conventional with virtual Ethnography'

Heidi Campbell & Pete Ward: 'The public performance of religion in the SCOT project'

Mia Lovheim: 'Young women's values in mediated stories on the internet'

Panel discussion of Clive Marsh's book 'Theology Goes to the Movies'

Lecture theatre,
Manor Road building

Chair: Chris Deacy
Panellists: Claudia May, Martyn Percy,
Melanie Wright
Respondent: Clive Marsh

Seminar Room A,
Manor Road building

Rob Warner: 'Autonomous religious consumption and popular culture'

David Herbert: 'Why has religion gone public again? Towards a theory of religious re-publicization'

Charlie Blake: 'The day of the dark precursor: Gilles Deleuze, vagrant materialism and the technological abrupt'

Seminar Room B,
Manor Road building

Katarzyna Planeta: 'Sacred story of villainy and otherness: the religious identity of Muslims as a challenge for the European myth of openness'

Ali Murat Yel: 'Fatima in Turkish media'

Milja Radovic: 'The representation of religion in Serbian films of the 1990's: a case study of "Pretty Village, Pretty Flame"

Seminar Room C,
Manor Road building

Eileen Barker: 'New religions and the media'

Fergus McDonald: 'Psalm journey: exploring the use of media in facilitating the spiritual development of students'

Yusuf Devran: 'The developing media experience of a religious community: the case of the Gulen Movement'

(table reserved for postgraduate student forum, with discussion after lunch in JCR: convenor Abby Day)

Sociology of Religion study group AGM

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Tom Beaudoin: 'Some concepts for thinking ethically about popular cultural studies: a theological perspective'

Stephen Pattison: 'The ethics of everyday life and material culture: a theological approach'

18.30

Plenary session:
The future of religious broadcasting in the UK

A question and answer session with Michael Wakelin, Head of Religion and Ethics at the BBC

Chair: Robert Beckford

JCR Lecture Theatre,
Manor Road building