The decision
of the 2003 AGM of the Study Group was to merge our Annual Study Day
for 2004 with the annual conference of the BASR, which will be celebrating
its 50th year, and this was confirmed at the AGM this year in Bristol.
The Committee
therefore invites Study Group members to attend the September conference
and offer papers oriented to the sociology of religion. It is hoped
that there will be a sufficient number of these to make up a 'stream'
or a number of distinct sessions, on Tuesday 14th September.
Mathew
Guest is on the committees of both groups and will be at the conference.
He will act as Study Group liaison. It would help planning if members
who will be attending, as well as booking in the normal way, were
to inform Mathew (m.j.guest@durham.ac.uk) and also send him paper
abstracts.
Theme:
The Study of Religions: Mapping The Field
This
is the theme of the BASR conference. Papers might be offered on topics
such as:
"
Fifty Years of the Sociology of Religion
" Fifty Years in the sociological study of a particular theme/movement/religion
" Mapping sociology of religion: the future
" Typologies in the sociology of religion (mapping in a different
sense)
" Sociology of religion in, for example, London/Bath/Wiltshire
(another sense of mapping)
" Other relevant topics
Paper
proposals should be sent by 1st June to Peggy Morgan, Mansfield College,
Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TF; email: peggy.morgan@mansfield.ox.ac.uk.
and copied to Mathew Guest, email: m.j.guest@durham.ac.uk
Registration forms for the conference should be sent to Dr Helen Waterhouse
(BASR Conference), Arts Faculty, The Open University, Milton Keynes,
MK7 6AA; telephone: 01908 652032; fax: 01908 653750;
e-mail: arts-rel-studies-conferences@open.ac.uk
Papers are 30 mins each, with 10 mins for questions.
A limited number of full student bursaries are available for postgraduates
presenting papers or work in progress reports. All relevant forms
are attached. For further details see http://basr.org.uk
