British Sociological Association

Issues related to the broad theme include:

• the causes and consequences of individual religious involvement

• the impact of religion on individual outcomes, e.g. in health, happiness, fertility, marital stability, prosperity, deviance, attitudes, etc.

• whether contemporary spirituality amounts to individual religion-if there is such a thing

• the impact of individualism on institutional religion

• topics in the psychology of religion

 

Special guest speakers including:

• Ralph W. Hood, Jr (University of Tennessee)
• Kate Loewenthal (Royal Holloway)
• Christian Smith (University of North Carolina))

  will address these and other topics.