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The 33rd Conference will be the 7 - 9 May 2010, arranged by Dr Edward Bailey.
Abstracts of most of the Papers for this year’s Denton Conference are now available from the Conference page.
Congratulations to Karen Pärna (now at Maastricht), whose doctorate was officially awarded on Jan. 28. Her thesis, Believing in the Net: Implicit Religion and the Internet Hype 1994-2001 is now available from Leiden University Press (ISBN 978-90-8728-075-8).
Congratulations also to Karen Lord (now in Barbados): since her doctoral thesis on the implicit religion at work in the Disestablishment of the Anglican Church in Wales and Barbados, and the subsequent re-establishment of the Anglican Church in the latter, she has been awarded a prestigious prize for her first novel.
Congratulations are also in order (since it is some time since we had a general up-date) to Meerten ter Borg, upon his personal Chair in Non-institutional Religion at Leiden University. (His Inaugural Lecture was published in Implicit Religion, 11.2 (2008) 127-141.) It is a welcome companion to the post established at Cambridge University in 2001, occupied by Tim Jenkins.
Also since the last up-date, Glyndwr University (centred on Wrexham in N. Wales) has become the latest university to recognise the study of Implicit Religion. (Enquiries to Professor Leslie J. Francis, please).
More generally, 2009-2010 looks like a turning-point in consideration of the relationships between the religious, the secular and the sacred, which lie at the heart of the study of Implicit Religion. Not only was it a recurrent theme at the American Academy of Religion in November: it was also the theme of meetings at Oxford Brookes University in September, at Wolfson College in Oxford in December, and at the British Academy in January, and will be in April at Wellington, Western Cape, S.A., and no doubt elsewhere. (One also notes the inaugural meeting of the British Association for the Study of Spirituality at Windsor, England, in May.)
It can hardly be a coincidence that Implicit Religion: Journal of the CSIRCS is also receiving more offers of articles than ever before, in this, its twelfth year of publication (see www.equinoxpub.com). However, further contributions, and subscriptions, remain very welcome!
Windsor, 4-6- May 2010. E-mail J McAteer for details.
E-mail David Armes for details.