British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group

November Study Day 2006

GOD TALK - IN SOCIOLOGY & THEOLOGY

Saturday 18 November 2006, 10:30am - 4:30pm

Heythrop College, Kensington Square, London

Organisers: Dr James Sweeney and Dr Anthony Carroll.

Click on the links for abstracts of the papers presented on 18 November

Programme

10.00 Registration. Coffee

10.30 Welcome.

10.40 MacIntyre: belief, historicism and nature, Peter McMylor

11.15 And the power and the glory be thy (or my best mate's) name: exploring
God-belief in late modernity, Abby Day

11.45 The Cultural Silencing of God, Roy Dorey

12.15 James Sweeney, 'Methodological atheism' and 'the return of the sacred'

12.45 Lunch break

1.30 Tony Carroll, Catholic Modernity: Historical and Systematic Aspects.

2.15 Concluding discussion (ending 2.30)