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Call for Papers: Association for the Sociology of Religion Conference 2014

ASSOCIATION FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

76th Annual Meeting:  RELIGION AS A SOCIAL FORCE

August 13-15, 2014. J.W. Marriott Union Square, San Francisco, CA

PROGRAM CHAIR:  Jeremy Uecker, Baylor University, Jeremy_Uecker@baylor.edu

Over the past three decades, a number of scholars have underscored the apparent role of religious institutions, practices, beliefs, and values in shaping social institutions and human behavior. This strand of work has been collectively labeled the “strong program” in the sociology of religion. Theorists and researchers working within this program have explored the role of religion with regard to a wide array of domains, including social movements and politics, social stratification, immigration, health and well-being, and many others. Notable contributions have come from scholars whose main specialization is the sociology of religion, and from others who are known for their scholarship in other areas, but who have come to recognize the relevance of religion for their own work. Others have critiqued the “strong program” on a number of important grounds. The 2014 ASR meeting will explore what can be learned by viewing religion and spirituality as independent influences in social life, as well as the potential pitfalls of doing so, along with the many other approaches that flourish within the highly pluralistic sociology of religion.

Papers and discussion sessions on all topics within the sociology of religion are welcome, but especially those related to the meeting theme, including, but not limited to the following:

  • Religion and demographic processes;  Religion and globalization;  Religion and politics;  Religion and social movements;  Religion and education;  Spirituality and religion;  Religion and socioeconomic inequality;  Religion, spirituality, and health/well-being;  Religion, race, and ethnicity;  Religion, gender, and sexualities;  Religion and immigration;  Non-western religion and social change;  Religion, terrorism, and violence;  Religion and pro-social attitudes and behavior;  Religion in adolescence and emerging adulthood;  Religion, marriage, and family life;  Religion, biology, and the body;  Religion, crime, and deviance;  Religion, spirituality, and emotions.

DEADLINES:  Session Proposals are due by March 31, 2014 (submit to Jeremy_Uecker@baylor.edu)

Paper Proposals and abstracts are due by April 30, 2014 (submit through the Member Portal at www.sociologyofreligion.com)

Meeting registration is due by July 1, 2014 (submit through the Member Portal at www.sociologyofreligion.com)

A pdf of this call for papers is available here.

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NSRN Annual Lecture: The Sociology of Irreligion: Past and Present

You are cordially invited to the NSRN Annual Lecture 2013. It will be given by Professor Emeritus Colin Campbell in conversation with Dr Lois Lee on 5 December at Conway Hall in London. The title of the lecture is The Sociology of Irreligion: Past and Present. The lecture will be followed by a launch for the republication of Toward a Sociology of Irreligion. 

The important details:

We do hope you will join us. Please RSVP to Dr Stacey Gutkowski, stacey.gutkowski@kcl.ac.uk, if you would like to attend. The event is free but places are limited.

 

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Podcast of Matthew Engelke’s NSRN Annual Lecture 2012 now available

In partnership with the Religious Studies Project (RSP), we are delighted to announce that a recording of the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network’s Annual Lecture 2012 with Matthew Engelke is now available. This lecture was recorded on 8 November 2012 at Conway Hall, London on the topic “In spite of Christianity: Humanism and its others in contemporary Britain”

You can access the lecture at the following URL: http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2013/08/19/engelke/

This comes as part of a continuing relationship between the NSRN and the RSP – they have previously released recordings of their Annual Lecture 2011, with Jonathan Lanman, and the four keynote lectures from the NSRN Biennial Conference, July 2012. These recordings are available here.

The full text of this lecture is available to download here.

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83 Additions to the NSRN Bibliography

83 new items have been added to the NSRN Bibliography which now boasts 745 entries relevant to the broad remit of the NSRN. These latest additions can be viewed here:

http://nsrn.net/bibliography/bibliography-additions/

As always, if you spot anything that we have missed please get in touch via the comments box here:

http://nsrn.net/bibliography/

 

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Tomorrow: LSE Forum on Religion, featuring Audra Mitchell and Stacey Gutkowski

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY – Programme for the Study of Religion and Non-religion

FORUM ON RELIGION

Date: Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Time: 16.30-18.00
Venue: Seligman Library (OLD 6.05), Old Building, LSE

Speakers:


Audra Mitchell (University of York)
‘Bringing Secularity (Back) into International Relations: Immanence, Agency and Intervention’

and

Stacey Gutkowski (King’s College London, Middle East and Mediterranean Studies Programme)
‘Secular Ways of War’

 

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/research/PRNR/Events/events.aspx

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58 New Additions to the NSRN Bibliography

It may be Christmas Eve, but we have just added 58 new items to our ever-growing bibliography. They are pasted in below for your perusal.

If you notice any omissions or errors in the bibliography, please do not hesitate to get in touch with Chris.

  • Alicino, F. “Western Secularism in an Age of Religious Diversity.” International Review of Sociology 22, no. 2 (2012): 305–322.
  • Ardagh, D. “Secular, Theistic and Religious Ethical Rationales for the Relief of Extreme Poverty.” Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 12, no. 1; /2 (2010): 40–54.
  • Bekke-Hansen, S., C.G. Pedersen, K. Thygesen, S. Christensen, L.C. Waelde, and R. Zachariae. “Faith and Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Among Heart Attack Patients in a Secular Society.” Complementary Therapies in Medicine 20, no. 5 (2012): 306–315.
  • Billig, Michael. Banal Nationalism. London: SAGE, 1995.
  • Boeve, L. “Religious Education in a Post-secular and post-Christian Context.” Journal of Beliefs and Values 33, no. 2 (2012): 143–156.
  • Bowie, B. “Human Rights Education and the Post Secular Turn.” Journal of Beliefs and Values 33, no. 2 (2012): 195–205.
  • Bowie, B., A. Peterson, and L. Revell. “Editorial : Post-secular Trends: Issues in Education and Faith.” Journal of Beliefs and Values 33, no. 2 (2012): 139–141.
  • Bronk, A. “Secular, Secularization, and Secularism. A Review Article.” Anthropos 107, no. 2 (2012): 578–582.
  • Brown, Callum G. “Podcast: The People of No Religion.” The Religious Studies Project, December 19, 2012. http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/brown/.
  • Bryan, H. “Reconstructing the Teacher as a Post Secular Pedagogue : a Consideration of the New Teachers’ Standards.” Journal of Beliefs and Values 33, no. 2 (2012): 217–228.
  • Burley, M. “Atheism and the Gift of Death.” Religious Studies 48, no. 4 (2012): 533–546.
  • Cahaner, L., and Y. Mansfield. “A Voyage from Religiousness to Secularity and Back : a Glimpse into `Haredi’ Tourists.” Journal of Heritage Tourism 7, no. 4 (2012): 301–321.
  • Carr, D. “Post-secularism, Religious Knowledge and Religious Education.” Journal of Beliefs and Values 33, no. 2 (2012): 157–168.
  • Castelli, M. “Faith Dialogue as a Pedagogy for a Post Secular Religious Education.” Journal of Beliefs and Values 33, no. 2 (2012): 207–216.
  • Connelly, Louise, Christopher R. Cotter, Frans Jespers, Ethan Gjerset Quillen, Steven J. Sutcliffe, and Teemu Taira. “Podcast: Studying Nonreligion Within Religious Studies.” The Religious Studies Project, December 17, 2012. http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2012/12/17/podcast-studying-nonreligion-within-religious-studies/.
  • Cornelissen, T., and U. Jirjahn. “Religion and Earnings : Is It Good to Be an Atheist with Religious Parental Background?” Economics Letters 117, no. 3 (2012): 905–908.
  • Cotter, Christopher R. “Secular Sacreds and the Sacred Secular.” The Religious Studies Project (November 7, 2012). http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2012/11/07/christopher-r-cotter-secular-sacreds/.
  • La Cour, P., and P. Gotke. “Understanding of the Word “Spirituality’’ by Theologians Compared to Lay People : An Empirical Study from a Secular Region.” Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy 18, no. 3–4 (2012): 97–109.
  • Daly, E. “The Ambiguous Reach of Constitutional Secularism in Republican France : Revisiting the Idea of Laicite and Political Liberalism as Alternatives.” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 32, no. 3 (2012): 583–608.
  • Davie, Grace. “Podcast: Belief and Unbelief: Two Sides of a Coin.” The Religious Studies Project, December 19, 2012. http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/davie/.
  • Van Die, M. “Secularism and Freedom of Conscience.” Journal of Church and State 54, no. 4 (2012): 648–650.
  • Eccles, Janet. “The Religious and Non-Religious Commitments of Older Women in the UK: Towards a New Typology.” Journal of Contemporary Religion 27, no. 3 (2012): 469–484. doi:10.1080/13537903.2012.722296.
  • Forbes, K.F., and E.M. Zampelli. “The Impacts of Religion, Political Ideology, and Social Capital on Religious and Secular Giving : Evidence from the 2006 Social Capital Community Survey.” Applied Economics 45, no. 17 (2013): 2481–2490.
  • Fox, J. “The Last Bastion of Secularism? Government Religion Policy in Western Democracies, 1990 to 2008.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies 20, no. 2 (2012): 161–180.
  • Francis, L.J., G. Penny, and S. Baker. “Defining and Assessing Spiritual Health : A Comparative Study Among 13- to 15-Year-Old Pupils Attending Secular Schools, Anglican Schools, and Private Christian Schools in England and Wales.” Peabody Journal of Education 87, no. 3 (2012): 351–367.
  • Garral, M.D. “The Possibility of Agnosticism : Russell’s Retreat from Atheism.” International Philosophical Quarterly 52, no. 3(207) (2012): 355–372.
  • Georgellis, Y., and T. Lange. “Traditional Versus Secular Values and the Job-Life Satisfaction Relationship Across Europe.” British Journal of Management 23, no. 4 (2012): 437–454.
  • Gul, A. “Egyptian Muslims Should Embrace Secularism.” New Perspectives Quarterly 29, no. 3 (2012): 48–51.
  • Gutkowski, Stacey. “Secularism and the Politics of Risk: Britain’s Prevent Agenda, 2005-8.” International Relations 25, no. 3 (2011): 346–362.
  • Haldane, J. “Scientism and Its Challenge to Humanism.” New Blackfriars 93, no. 1048 (2012): 671–686.
  • Hunter, I. “Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and Secularization in Early Modern Germany.” Modern Intellectual History 8, no. 3 (2011): 621–646.
  • Iqtidar, Humeira. “Podcast: Secularization and Non-religion in Non-Western Contexts.” The Religious Studies Project, December 19, 2012. http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/iqtidar/.
  • ———. “Secularism and Secularisation : Untying the Knots.” Economic and Political Weekly 47, no. 35 (2012): 50–58.
  • Joukovsky, N.A. “Robert Parker’s `Letters on Atheism’ : An Early Response to Shelley’s The Necessity of Atheism.” Review of English Studies 63, no. 261 (2012): 608–633.
  • Kim, D., D. McCalman, and D. Fisher. “The Sacred/Secular Divide and the Christian Worldview.” Journal of Business Ethics 109, no. 2 (2012): 203–208.
  • Kim, Y.I., and W.B. Wilcox. “Bonding Alone : Familism, Religion, and Secular Civic Participation.” Social Science Research 42, no. 1 (2013): 31–45.
  • Lanman, Jonathan. “Podcast: Atheism Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Atheistic Thought.” The Religious Studies Project, December 19, 2012. http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/lanman/.
  • Lee, Lois. “Being Secular: Toward Separate Sociologies of Secularity, Nonreligion and Epistemological Culture.” Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012.
  • ———. “Podcast: Lois Lee on Nonreligion.” The Religious Studies Project, October 8, 2012. http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2012/10/08/podcast-lois-lee-on-non-religion/.
  • Leurs, R. “Are Faith-based Organisations Distinctive? Comparing Religious and Secular NGOs in Nigeria.” Development in Practice 22, no. 5; /6 (2012): 704–720.
  • Lust, E., G. Soltan, and J. Wichmann. “After the Arab Spring : Islamism, Secularism, and Democracy.” CURRENT HISTORY -NEW YORK THEN PHILADELPHIA- 111, no. 749 (2012): 362–364.
  • Majeed, J. “THE CRISIS OF SECULARISM IN INDIA.” Modern Intellectual History 7, no. 3 (2010): 653–666.
  • Martinez-Taboas, A., N. Varas-Diaz, D. Lopez-Garay, and L. Hernandez-Pereiera. “What Every Psychologists Practitioner Should Know About Atheist People and Atheism.” Interamerican Journal of Psychology 45, no. 2 (2011): 203–210.
  • Mirman, M.C. “An Atheist’s Guide to the Divine : Throwing Out the Bathwater but Keeping the Baby.” Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion 23 (2012): 171–190.
  • Moser, P.K. “Undermining the Case for Evidential Atheism.” Religious Studies 48, no. 1 (2012): 83–93.
  • Osuri, G. “Secular Interventions/Hinduized Sovereignty : (Anti) Conversion and Religious Pluralism in Jodhaa Akbar.” Cultural Critique no. 81 (2012): 70–102.
  • Petersen, J.A. “Religion and Popular Music in Europe : New Expressions of Sacred and Secular Identity.” Culture and Religion 13, no. 3 (2012): 393–395.
  • Pingle, M., and T. Melkonyan. “To Believe or Not Believe…or Not Decide : A Decision-theoretic Model of Agnosticism.” Rationality and Society 24, no. 4 (2012): 408–441.
  • Quack, Johannes. “Is to Ignore to Deny? Säkularisierung, Säkularität Und Säkularismus in Indien.” In Religionspolitik, Öffentlichkeit, Wissenschaft: Studien Zur Neuformierung Von Religion in Der Gegenwart, edited by Martin Bauman and Frank Neubert, 291–317. Zürich: PANO-Verlag, 2010.
  • Radford, M. “Faith and Reason in a Post Secular Age.” Journal of Beliefs and Values 33, no. 2 (2012): 229–240.
  • Rectenwald, Michael. “Secularism and the Cultures of Nineteenth-century Scientific Naturalism.” The British Journal for the History of Science FirstView (2012): 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0007087412000738.
  • Shneer, D., and B. Springer. “Russian Jewish Intellectual History and the Making of Secular Jewish Culture.” Modern Intellectual History 9, no. 2 (2012): 435–449.
  • Siegler, E. “David Cronenberg : The Secular Auteur as Critic of Religion.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 80, no. 4 (2012): 1098–1112.
  • Tonti-Filippini, N. “Religious and Secular Death: A Parting of the Ways.” Bioethics 26, no. 8 (2012): 410–421.
  • West, J.A. “The Post-Secular in Question : Religion in Contemporary Society.” Sociology of Religion 73, no. 3 (2012): 352–354.
  • Wilcox, M.M. ““Spiritual Sluts’’ : Uncovering Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in the Post-Secular.” Womens Studies 41, no. 6 (2012): 639–659.
  • Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika. “Podcast: Multiple Secularities: Toward a Cultural Sociology of Secular-Religious Distinctions.” The Religious Studies Project, December 19, 2012. http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/iqtidar/.
  • Woodhead, Linda. “Podcast: The Secularization Thesis.” The Religious Studies Project, April 16, 2012. http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2012/04/16/podcast-linda-woodhead-on-the-secularisation-thesis/.
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Five Podcasts of NSRN Lectures now available

600x600_square_logoIn partnership with the Religious Studies Project (RSP) it is our pleasure to bring you the audio recordings of five very important lectures, hosted on the RSP website.

The first is the NSRN Annual Lecture from April 2011, recorded at St Mary’s University College in Twickenham:

The other four are the keynote lectures from the NSRN’s Biennial Conference, recorded at Goldsmiths University, London, in July 2012:

Chris, the managing editor of the NSRN website, is also one of the Religious Studies Project’s ‘editors-in-chief’ and therefore, when the NSRN wanted to make available some podcasts from recent events, it seemed like a win-win situation for both organizations for the RSP to host and disseminate these podcasts on behalf of the NSRN. These lectures come as part of an extensive series of podcasts from the RSP which touch on the study of non-religion – from a recent roundtable discussion on Studying Nonreligion within Religious Studies, to interviews with Linda Woodhead, Callum Brown, and Lois Lee.

For those of you who don’t know the RSP, please take a moment to survey religiousstudiesproject.com which features a few dozen of their weekly podcasts with leading international scholars on exciting developments in theory, method and empirical study within the social-scientific study of religion, in addition to roundtable discussions, book reviews, feature essays, opportunities digests, and more. The RSP is presented with generous support from the British Association for the Study of Religions.

As the RSP has a wider remit than the NSRN, they did not wish to fill all of their listeners inboxes with five quite lengthy podcasts and, therefore, have not made these podcasts available though their iTunes channel. However, they are all available on the RSP website and shall be linked to from the NSRN website. Due to the lecture style of these recordings, it is somewhat inevitable that the audio quality will be lower than we would like, and that there might be references to PowerPoint presentations or other events happening in the room. However, we know that these will be minor irritations when compared with the stimulating scholarship that you are about to hear, and we are very grateful to the RSP for working with us to bring you these lectures.

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New Book Series: Histories of the Sacred and the Secular, 1700 – 2000

Histories of the Sacred and the Secular, 1700 – 2000. Edited by David Nash, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Histories of the Sacred and the Secular (pdf flyer)

Histories of the Sacred and the Secular 1700 – 2000 reflects the awakened and expanding
profile of the history of religion within the academy in recent years. Intending to publish
exciting new and high quality work on the history of religion and belief since 1700, the series
actively encourages the production of interdisciplinary proposals and the use of innovative
methodologies. We welcome book proposals on the history of Atheism, Secularism,
Humanism and unbelief/secularity and encourage research agendas in this area alongside
those in religious belief, as well as proposals covering subjects in Britain, Europe, the United
States and Oceania. Histories of the Sacred and the Secular 1700 – 2000 aims to reflect both
the work of new scholars entering the field, alongside the work of established scholars.

Editorial Board

Professor Callum Brown, Dundee University, UK
Professor William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Dr Carole Cusack, Sydney University, Australia
Professor Beverley Clack, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Drs Bert Gasenbeek, University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, Netherlands
Professor Paul Harvey, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA

for more details of the series or guidelines on
submitting a proposal contact the general Editor:

Professor David Nash
dsnash@brookes.ac.uk

http://www.palgrave.com

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55 new entries in the NSRN Bibliography

55 texts, new and old, have been added to the NSRN Bibliography. Happy researching!

  • Ballestero, A. 2012. ‘The Productivity of Nonreligious Faith : Openness, Pessimism, and Water in Latin America’. In Nature, Science, and Religion : Intersections Shaping Society and the Environment, 169–190. Santa Fe; School for Advanced Research Press.
  • Berner, Ulrich. 1990. ‘Religion Und Atheismus’. In The Notion of ‘Religion’ in Comparative Research, ed. H. Bianchi, 769–776. Rome: Selected Proceedings of the XVI IAHR Congress held in Rome, September 3-8.
  • ———. 2011. ‘Der Neue Atheismus Als Gegenstand Der Religionswissenschaft’. In Religionen Nach Der Säkularisierung. Festschrift Für Johann Figl Zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. H.G. Hödl and V. Futterknecht, 378–390. Wien: Lit Verlag.
  • Berner, Ulrich, and Johannes Quack, eds. 2012. Religion Und Kritik in Der Moderne. Münster: Lit Verlag.
  • Beyer, Peter. 2012. ‘2011 Association for the Sociology of Religion Presidential Address Socially Engaged Religion in a Post-Westphalian Global Context : Remodeling the Secular/Religious Distinction’. Sociology of Religion 73 (2): 109–129.
  • Brown, Callum G. 2012. ‘`The Unholy Mrs Knight’ and the BBC : Secular Humanism and the Threat to the `Christian Nation’, C.1945-60’. English Historical Review 127 (525): 345–376.
  • Bruce, Steve. 2001. ‘“Christianity in Britain”, R. I.P..’ Sociology of Religion 62 (2): 191–203.
  • Bullivant, Spencer. 2012. Atheism and Non-Religion Panel Session (2012 BSA SocRel Annual Conference). University of Chester: NSRN. http://nsrn.net/1785-2/.
  • Bullivant, Stephen. 2012. ‘Not so Indifferent After All? Self-conscious Atheism and the Secularisation Thesis’. Approaching Religion 2 (1) (June 7): 100–106.
  • Bussing, A., F. Reiser, A. Michalsen, and K. Baumann. 2012. ‘Engagement of Patients With Chronic Diseases in Spiritual and Secular Forms of Practice : Results with the Shortened SpREUK-P SF17 Questionnaire’. Integrative Medicine 11 (1): 28–38.
  • Choi, N.G., and D.M. DiNitto. 2012. ‘Predictors of Time Volunterring, Religious Giving, and Secular Giving: Implications for Nonprofit Organizations’. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 39 (2): 93–120.
  • Cotter, Christopher R., Rebecca Aechtner, and Johannes Quack. 2012. Non-Religiosity, Identity, and Ritual Panel Session. Hungarian Culture Foundation, Budapest, Hungary: NSRN. http://nsrn.net/1523-2/.
  • Cragun, R., S. Yeager, and D. Vega. 2012. ‘Research Report : How Secular Humanists (and Everyone Else) Subsidize Religion in the U.S’. Free Inquiry 32 (4): 39–46.
  • Davie, Grace. 2012. ‘Belief and Unbelief: Two Sides of a Coin’. Approaching Religion 2 (1) (June 7): 3–7.
  • Figl, J. 2012. ‘Religionswissenschaft, Religionskritik Und Atheismus Bei Friedrich Nietzsche’. In Religion Und Kritik in Der Moderne, ed. Ulrich Berner and Johannes Quack, 31–52. Münster: Lit Verlag.
  • Fitzgerald, Timothy, ed. 2007. Religion and the Secular: Historical and Colonial Formations. London and Oakville CT: Equinox.
  • Frega, R. 2012. ‘Equal Accessibility to All : Habermas, Pragmatism, and the Place of Religious Beliefs in a Post-Secular Society’. Constellations 19 (2): 267–287.
  • Galen, L.W., and J. Kloet. 2011a. ‘Personality and Social Integration Factors Distinguishing Non-religious from Religious Groups:  The Importance of Controlling for Attendance and Demographics’. Archive for the Psychology of Religion 33: 205–228.
  • ———. 2011b. ‘Mental Well-being in the Religious and the Non-religious: Evidence for a Curvilinear Relationship’. Mental Health Religion and Culture 14: 673–689.
  • Gentz, J. 2012. ‘Religionskritik Im Wandel Der Orthodoxie. Vom Dritten Opiumkrieg Und Vom Aberglauben Im China Der 1980er Jahre’. In Religion Und Kritik in Der Moderne, ed. Ulrich Berner and Johannes Quack, 53–79. Münster: Lit Verlag.
  • Graham, E. 2012. ‘What’s Missing? Gender, Reason and the Post-Secular’. Political Theology (2): 233–245.
  • Gulalp, H. 2010. ‘Secularism and the European Court of Human Rights’. European Public Law 16 (3): 455–471.
  • Hoogheem, A. 2012. ‘Secular Apocalypses : Darwinian Criticism and Atwoodian Floods’. Mosaic 45 (2): 55–72.
  • Hyman, Gavin. 2012. ‘Dialectics or Politics? Atheism and the Return to Religion’. Approaching Religion 2 (1) (June 7): 66–74.
  • Laitila, Teuvo. 2012. ‘The Russian Orthodox Church and Atheism’. Approaching Religion 2 (1) (June 7): 52–57.
  • LeDrew, Stephen. 2012. ‘The Evolution of Atheism Scientific and Humanistic Approaches’. History of the Human Sciences 25 (3) (July 1): 70–87. doi:10.1177/0952695112441301.
  • Lynch, Gordon. 2012. The Sacred in the Modern World: A Cultural Sociological Approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Maclure, J., and C. Taylor. 2011. Secularism and Freedom of Conscience. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Mahlamäki, Tiina. 2012. ‘Religion and Atheism from a Gender Perspective’. Approaching Religion 2 (1) (June 7): 58–65.
  • Martinson, Mattias. 2012. ‘Atheism as Culture and Condition: Nietzschean Reflections on the Contemporary Invisibility of Profound Godlessness’. Approaching Religion 2 (1) (June 7): 75–86.
  • McAnulla, Stuart. 2012. ‘Radical Atheism and Religious Power: New Atheist Politics’. Approaching Religion 2 (1) (June 7): 87–99.
  • Miner, R.C. 2012. ‘Leo Strauss’s Adherence to Nietzsche’s “Atheism From Intellectual Probity’’’. Perspectives on Political Science 41 (3): 155–164.
  • Modood, Tariq. 2012. ‘2011 Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture Is There a Crisis of Secularism in Western Europe?’ Sociology of Religion 73 (2): 130–149.
  • Niose, David. 2012. Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ozaloglu, S., and M.O. Gurel. 2011. ‘Designing Mosques for Secular Congregations: Transformations of the Mosque as a Social Space in Turkey’. Journal for Architectural and Planning Research 28 (4): 336–358.
  • Pfister, L.F. 2012. ‘Post-Secularity Within Contemporary Chinese Philosophical Contexts’. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 39 (1): 121–138.
  • Plessentin, U. 2012. ‘Die „Neuen Atheisten“ Als Religionspolitische Akteure’. In Religion Und Kritik in Der Moderne, ed. Ulrich Berner and Johannes Quack, 81–112. Münster: Lit Verlag.
  • Quack, Johannes. 2012a. ‘Arten Des Unglaubens Als ‚Mentalität‘: Religionskritische Traditionen in Indien’. In Religion Und Kritik in Der Moderne, ed. Ulrich Berner and Johannes Quack, 113–138. Münster: Lit Verlag.
  • ———. 2012b. ‘Religionswissenschaft, Religion Und Kritik in Der Moderne’. In Religion Und Kritik in Der Moderne, ed. Ulrich Berner and Johannes Quack, 7–29. Münster: Lit Verlag.
  • Schielke, Samuli. 2012. ‘Being a Nonbeliever in a Time of Islamic Revival: Trajectories of Doubt and Certainty in Contemporary Egypt’. International Journal of Middle East Studies 44 (02): 301–320. doi:10.1017/S0020743812000062.
  • Schlieter, J. 2012. ‘Der Rationalitätsbegriff Der Naturalistischen Religionskritik’. In Religion Und Kritik in Der Moderne, ed. Ulrich Berner and Johannes Quack, 195–218. Münster: Lit Verlag.
  • Sikka, S. 2012. ‘The Perils of Indian Secularism’. Constellations 19 (2): 288–304.
  • Sloan, S. 2012. ‘Regional Differences in Collecting Freethought Books in American Public Libraries: A Case of Self-censorship?’ Library Quarterly 82 (2): 183–205.
  • Smith, A.F. 2012. ‘Secularity and Biblical Literalism : Confronting the Case for Epistemological Diversity’. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 71 (3): 205–219.
  • Smith, B., and J. Burkhalter. 2011. ‘Choice and Conflict Between Sacred and Secular Music : A Conversation Piece for Teaching Marketing Ethics’. Sustainable Global Marketplace 34: 227–229.
  • Taira, Teemu. 2012. ‘More Visible but Limited in Its Popularity: Atheism (and Atheists) in Finland’. Approaching Religion 2 (1) (June 7): 21–35.
  • Taira, Teemu, and Ruth Illman. 2012. ‘The New Visibility of Atheism in Europe’. Approaching Religion 2 (1) (June 6): 1–2.
  • Tenenbaum, H.R., and M.D. Ruck. 2012. ‘British Adolescents- and Young Adults- Understanding and Reasoning About the Religious and Nonreligious Rights of Asylum-Seeker Youth’. Child Development 83 (3): 1102–1115.
  • Voas, David, and Steve Bruce. 2007. ‘The Spiritual Revolution: Another False Dawn for the Sacred’. In A Sociology of Spirituality, ed. K. Flanagan and P.C. Jupp, 43–62. Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Waggoner, Michael D., ed. 2011. Sacred and Secular Tensions in Higher Education: Connecting Parallel Universities. New York: Routledge.
  • Wally. 2012. ‘Ian McEwan’s Saturday as a New Atheist Novel? A Claim Revisited’. Anglia: Zeitschrift Für Englische Philologie 130 (1): 95–119.
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The conference is here… we have a hashtag! #nsrn

Who would have thought that we would finally get here? In just a couple of hours we will be kicking off the NSRN Conference in a damp and dreary London. For those of you who know what a hashtag is, I just wanted to let you know that we will be using the tag #nsrn throughout the conference.

If you want to follow official and unofficial comments on what is happening ‘live’ in the room at Goldsmiths University, if you want to see some pictures or ask questions or just have a bit of entertainment in the background, then set up a search on Twitter for #nsrn and start using the tag in your own tweets. I will be doing my best to keep the feed as up-to-date as possible throughout the next three days… we then hope that this will be a lasting archived legacy of the event that is about to ensue.

All that we ask is that you treat what people say during discussion sessions, at the meal, in the bar etc as private… but general themes and what people say in presentations is fair game. And, of course, I shouldn’t need to ask everyone to be civil 🙂

I’ll also be doing my best to keep the Facebook page up-to-date… amongst other things.

So – for those of you in the room, I hope that you will do your best to keep the rest of the NSRN world informed about this fabulous conference… and for those of you who couldn’t make it, I hope that this and some of the other planned outputs over the coming months mean that you have missed out entirely.