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The Trustees are hoping to develop in 2008 some of CSIRCS’s existing links, such as those with Staffordshire University and Leeds Metropolitan University, and with Ripon College Cuddesdon (Oxford) and the United Theological College (Bangalore).
CSIRCS has moved to:
The Old School
Church Lane
Yarnton
Oxford
OX5 1PY
+44 (0) 1865 841772
The E-mail address has also changed.
The 31st Conference will be the 9 - 11 May 2008, arranged by Dr Edward Bailey.
The Journal (Implicit Religion: Journal of the CSIRCS) should catch up with its intended publication dates by the end of this year (or very soon after). If you don’t already receive it (or would like to introduce it to someone else) Abstracts can be accessed via www.implicitreligion.org. Like the Denton Conferences, although other journals and gatherings now include overlapping material, it is unique in its sustained approach to this area of interest. It is also distinguished by its combination of the academic and the practical, and its particular range of Book Reviews.
St George's House (Windsor Castle) will be hosting a 24 hour conference on Social Values in a Secular Age: What sort of religion do they imply? Mon - Tues, 11 - 12 February 2008.
Canterbury Christ Church University will be hosting a day’s symposium on 19th April 2008 on Law as Implicit Religion. Further details from:
Dr Sharon Hanson
Department for Studies in Crime and Policing
Canterbury Christ Church University
North Holmes Campus
Canterbury
CT1 1QU
012227 78 2215
The June 1-4 meeting at Vancouver of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion will include a session on Implicit Religion: participation invited! Details from J E Porter or A M Wender.
The June 7 meeting at Oxford of the Alister Hardy Society (for research into religious experience), on Boundaries of the Secular, the Religious, and the Spiritual, welcomes recipients of this ‘Newsletter’.
who established the Centre for Studies in Implicit Religion (CSIR) at the University of Wales at Bangor, has moved to the Institute of Education at the University of Warwick at Coventry: the CSIR may also move therefore, but has not done so yet.
whom many of you were in contact with before the 30th Denton Conference in May 2007, finished her three-year Fellowship in Implicit Religion (first, at the United College of the Ascension, and then at The Queen’s Foundation) in September. She is now Senior Lecturer in Theology and Culture at Birmingham Christian College.
You may recall Claudia’s editorial in Implicit Religion, Vol.9, Part 2, and her reviews in 8.3 and 9.1 (also in the forthcoming 10.3). She has also contributed 2 articles (‘The Spirit of Gospel and the Feeling of the Blues’, and ‘The Spiritual Dimensions and Purposes of the Blues’, to Magna, September 2007. She has been completing a volume, When Women Sing the Blues: the trajectories of the blues in African American women’s literature, and is working on another, Believe: football and religiosity in films. She has also joined the editorial board of Mercer University Press’s new International Journal of Religion and Sport.
who completed her Master’s thesis, Examining the Usefulness of the Concept of Implicit Religion to explain and understand Disestablishment in Barbados and Wales, at the University of Wales, Bangor, in 2007, is now completing her doctoral thesis. In the New Year she will be pursuing a career in sociological research and writing in Barbados.
In addition to her article (‘Implicit Religion: definition and application’), and her review, in Implicit Religion (Vol. 9, Part 2, and 8.3), she has an article for the Journal of Contemporary Religion in press: ‘Implicit Religion: a contemporary theory for the relationship between religion, state and society’.
played a leading role in arranging a number of Implicit Religion sessions at the 2005 and 2007 meetings of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR/SISR). She will be completing her doctoral thesis, on the implicit religion involved in the internet ‘hype’ prior to the Millennium, for Leiden University, in the New Year. She intends to pursue an academic career, in the Netherlands or elsewhere, in similar areas of research.
Her editorial, and her article (‘Believe in the Net: the construction of the sacred in utopian tales of the Internet’) and reviews appeared in Implicit Religion (7.2, 9.2, and 8.3). She has also published ‘Religie en spektakel in het digitale tijdperk’, in de Marge, Tijdschrift voor levensbeschouwing en wetenschap, 14 (4), 41-8; and in 2007-8 is publishing ‘The Digital Apocalypse: the implicit religiosity of the Millennium-bug hype’, in S Aupers & D Houtman (eds.), Religion and Modernity; ‘Technophilia: the internet as a vessel of contemporary religiosity’, in W Drees (ed.), Religion, Technology, and Public Concern; and ‘Control over Matter and Space: the religious dreams of the internet era’, in D Houtman & B Meyer (eds.), Things: material religion and the topography of divine spaces (Fordham University Press).