British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group

Belief and Identity in Late Modernity: Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries

University of Sussex, Saturday 8 November 2008 10 am-4.30 pm

A Study Day organised by
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Abby Day,

and Prof. Simon Coleman,
Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex,
in conjunction with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group.

Programme

Individual presentations will be 10 minutes, followed by discussion and a discussant response. Presenters in each session will prepare their presentation by considering other papers in their session, to allow them to explore how belief and identity are understood and investigated in different disciplines. All participants registering for the Study Day are asked to read and print the presenters' summaries (click on presentation titles below) to allow a fully participative and interactive event. Please also print the timetable as there will be no paper hand-outs on the day.

Click here for Registration Form (in Ms Word)

9.15 - 10.00	Arrival and registration
10.00	Introduction: Abby Day and Simon Coleman, Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex
10.15 - 11.30	Session 1: Chair and discussant: Douglas Davies, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, UK
	Peter Collins, Department of Anthropology, Durham University: Hospital Chaplains: sustaining religious identity in a hostile environment?
	Scott Taylor, School of Business & Economics, University of Exeter and Emma Bell, School of Management, University of Bath: Researching Spirituality in the Workplace
	Sarah Goldingay, Department of Drama, University of Exeter: Anamnesis and Pleasurable Pastimes: The Performance of Belief in the Parish
11.45 - 1.00:	Session 2: Chair and discussant: Ian Fairweather, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
	Peter Rudiak-Gould, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University: Being Marshallese and Christian: A Case of Contradictory Belief-identities
	A. Merve Demircioglu, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge: The Rhetoric of Belief and Religious Identity in the Experience of Infertility
	Saleem Khan, Centre for Religion, Conflict and Cooperation, Department of Governance and International Relations, London Metropolitan University: Questioning Ethnography as a Method in Political Studies of Sectarianism in Pakistan
1.00 - 2.00	Lunch Break (simple sandwiches and drink)
2.00 - 3.40	Session 3: Chair and discussant: Gordon Lynch, Birkbeck, University of London
	Neil Elliot, School of Social Science, Kingston University: "It's Special, but is it Spiritual?"
	Elizabeth Graveling, University of Bath: "That is not Religion, that is the Gods": Religious Frameworks in Rural Ghana
	Elizabeth Dinnie, Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen: New Age Spirituality and the Divine Self: Epistemological Individualism and Self-confidence amongst New Agers
	Douglas Ezzy, Department of Sociology, University of Tasmania, Australia and Helen A. Berger, Department of Anthropology, West Chester University USA: Mass Media and Religious Identity: A Case Study of young Witches
3.55 - 4.30	Session 3: Chair and discussant: Gordon Lynch, Birkbeck, University of London