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NSRN 2024 Annual Lecture

The NSRN 2024 Annual Lecture will be taking place virtually on May 8, 2024. Dr. Donovan Schaefer (University of Pennsylvania) will be sharing his presentation, titled “The Re-Disenchantment of the World: Thinking, Feeling, and Secularity” while NSRN President Atko Remmel will moderate a Q & A period following the presentation. Please see the poster below for further information, including the time of the presentation based on your location. Anyone interested in attending can register through this link: https://forms.gle/7oLmvMwStTAvwt7m6

For an abstract of the lecture, see below!

Charles Taylor once wrote that “everyone can agree that one of the big differences between us and our ancestors of 500 years ago is that they lived in an ‘enchanted’ world and we do not.” But what does “disenchantment” really mean? And why do we so often insist that we are disenchanted? By re-evaluating the relationship between thinking and feeling, this talk opens the door to a new view of disenchantment—neither embracing Taylor’s story of decline nor dismissing disenchantment as mere “myth.” Rather than the eradication of feeling, disenchantment is a rearrangement of the way modernity feels. This calls on us to rethink how disenchantment fits in to theories of secularization.

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NSRN Annual Lecture (2023)

Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society

In this webinar, Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman, and Ryan T. Cragun will discuss their new book, Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society (NYU Press, 2023). The webinar will take place on Zoom at noon EDT on September 19th, 2023. The event is jointly organized by the NSRN and the Nonreligion in a Complex Future (NCF) project.

The Zoom webinar will be free to register and attend, and open to all. All attendees must register beforehand. To register, please click here.

To view the poster click here.

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Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Conference (2023)

Towards Substantive Understandings of Nonreligion and Secularity

University of Ottawa, Canada, 6-9 June, 2023

The 2023 NSRN conference will be delivered using a hybrid virtual and in-person format. For those who can travel, we strongly recommend you join us in person at the conference venue at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada from 6-9 June 2023. However, for those who cannot join in person, there will be at least one hybrid session room (out of two session rooms in total) throughout the days of the conference where participants can present virtually, listen to other virtual and in-person presentations
and ask their questions. There will be no fee to attend the 2023 NSRN conference either in person or virtually.

Deadline for session and paper proposals: 16 December 2022

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NSRN Annual Lecture (2022)

In this virtual lecture, presented by the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network in partnership with the Nonreligion in a Complex Future Project, Atko Remmel (University of Tartu) discusses his findings on nonreligion in Estonia, often considered one of the least religious countries in Europe. The lecture touches on the impact of Soviet “forced secularization” on the situation today, the intersections of nonreligion, nationalism and environment(alism), the perceptions of (non)religion among the different generations of the nonreligious, and finally, what all of this tells us about the study of (non)religion in such a context.

Date: April 13, 2022

Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm (Montreal, Canada)

Location: Virtual – Zoom

To view the recording of the lecture click here.

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NSRN Annual Lecture (2020)

The NSRN is pleased to announce that the 2020 Annual Lecture, titled “Going Godless: Black Feminism, Humanism, and Anti-Racism”, will be given by Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson on 10 December, 2020 (13:00 – 14:00 EST) as a free online event open to all. Please see the attached poster here for more information.

To attend, please RSVP with Vanessa Turyatunga at vturyatu@uottawa.ca

Going Godless: Black Feminism, Humanism, and Anti-Racism
According to a 2012 Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation Survey, 87% of African American women are religious, making African American women among the most religious demographic groups in the U.S. Although Black women have long been stereotyped as the “backbone” of the Black Church, some Black women non-theists and humanists are bucking these traditions to challenge organized religion. Historically, Black women have relied on churches and faith-based institutions as vehicles for political organizing, cultural identity, and community solidarity. It is for this reason, as well as the slave-era stigma associated with Black female sexuality, that being a Black female humanist and atheist is even more taboo than being a Black male atheist. Dehumanized as either hyper-sexual Jezebels or asexual Aunt Jemimas, Black women have been constructed as less moral, less human, less chaste, and less civilized than respectable white Christian women. “Going Godless” will examine this history vis-à-vis the emergence of Black feminist humanist perspectives in the American secular humanist and atheist movements. For example, how have Black women humanists and atheists drawn on the feminist/womanist legacy of writers and thinkers like Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Walker, and Nella Larsen? How are they challenging the traditional church/state separation agenda of the mainstream atheist/humanist movements? And what intersectional issues inform a Black feminist humanist political agenda as racial, gender, and socioeconomic inequality intensifies in the U.S.?

A recording of the lecture is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYnmD4F-Nxo

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Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Conference Call for Papers (2021)

Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Conference – 16-18 June, 2021

The growing number of nonreligious individuals poses new challenges for societies experiencing simultaneous intensification of religious diversity and renewed presence of religion in the public sphere. The impact of this shift is profound, contributing to social anxiety and divisions as societies become both more and less religious. These tensions are likely to deepen as the nonreligious play a more significant political role. Consequently, we need a better understanding of the moral and social dimensions of nonreligion and secularity, the socio-cultural circumstances of their emergence, and how nonreligion, secularity, spirituality and religion are negotiated simultaneously in social institutions such as in health, the law, education, the economy, politics, the environment, culture, recreation and leisure, as well as migration. Given that the nonreligious populations of many countries are growing rapidly, understanding the implications of this shift is key to addressing the pressing issue of how complex diversities can coexist in positive ways.

The Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network (NSRN) invites both paper and session proposals for its 2021 conference titled Nonreligion in a Complex Future. The 2021 NSRN conference will be held in partnership with the Nonreligion in a Complex Future (NCF) project, based at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and led by Professor Lori Beaman.

Given the ongoing travel and gathering restrictions related to COVID-19, the 2021 NSRN conference will be delivered using a virtual format. This format has the benefits of potentially allowing for more international attendees, no monetary costs for attendees and participants (the virtual NSRN 2021 conference will be free to attend and participate in!), lower health risks, and a positive impact on the environment as no travel is required. Reasonable daily time slots will be found for conference presenters from all global time zones.

Please see the attached Call for Papers here for more information and instructions on how to submit paper and session proposals.

All paper and session proposals must be e-mailed to nsrnconference2021@gmail.com by the end of the day on Monday the 1st of February 2021. For any questions, please contact the programme chair Dr. Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme by e-mail at sarah.wilkinslaflamme@uwaterloo.ca

Call for Papers: https://nonreligionandsecularity.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/nsrn-2021-conference-call-for-papers.pdf

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NSRN Annual Lecture 2017

Ancestor Worship amongst Today’s Unbelievers

Nonreligious people often experience, and revere, the presence of their deceased relatives. Typically described as ‘religious experience’, the uniqueness of unbelievers’ experiences of the dead are widely misunderstood. In this year’s Nonreligion & Secularity Research Network’s annual lecture Professor Abby Day (Goldsmiths, University of London) discusses new research into the ‘ancestor worship’ of British unbelievers, and asks – what do these experiences tell us about unbelief, nonreligion and the richness of human experience?

The event will be held on 15.45-17.00 Saturday 25 November 2017 at The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge (Canterbury CT1 2RA).

This event is free and open to all. Please register at the eventbrite page.

The NSRN Annual Lecture 2017 is sponsored by the Understanding Unbelief programme, and will be held as part of the Belief, Lost and Found: The Unbelief Café at the Being Human festival. Further details can be found here.

NSRN 2017 lecture flyer

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[Event] NSRN Annual Lecture 2016

NSRN Annual Lecture 2016: Is atheism a religion?

Psychological & Anthropological Perspectives.

 

This panel will consider atheism and religion from the perspectives of psychology and anthropology and will seek to bring scientific theory and evidence to bear on these questions and establish how it might (and might not) make sense to liken atheism to a religion.

Speakers include:

Dr Miguel Farias, Coventry University

Professor Christopher French, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Dr Jonathan Lanman, Queen’s University Belfast

Dr Lois Lee, UCL (chair)

 

The event will take place at UCL – 6pm, 2 December 2016.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nsrn-annual-lecture-is-atheism-a-religion-registration-28392936036

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[CFP] SocRel Response Day 2016

SocRel Response Day 2016: Connecting for Change: emerging research and policy on religion and belief in the public sphere

Friday 21st October, 10 a.m. -4 p.m.

BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London

Keynote Speaker: Professor Tariq Modood (University of Bristol)

The public sphere has been both prominent and turbulent in recent times, and in common with other interests and disciplines, the study of religion and belief has been exploring the questions which are raised. From the role of faith in public life, to media representations, legal cases and controversies, and the future of school RE, a plethora of research and reports has been underway which connect religion and belief with policy and practice. This event will present key examples, with an emphasis on sociology of religion, including as it connects with other disciplines, and with policy and practice.

The goal is to explore the connections between religion and belief research, policy and the public sphere through presentations, questions and discussions. We invite proposals for papers and/or (small) panels of 40 minutes (including time for questions), which present research which has connected with – or is planned to – any aspect of policy or practice (such as education, health, housing, welfare, law, employment, politics, government and others).

Registration now open: http://portal.britsoc.co.uk/public/event/eventBooking.aspx?id=EVT10587

Key Dates:

  • Abstract submission closes: 9th September 2016
  • Decision notification: 13th September 2016
  • Registration closes: 7th October 2016

To deliver a paper, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words, alongside a biographical note of no more than 50 words. To deliver a panel, please send an abstract of no more than 500 words alongside a biographical note of no more than 50 words for each contributor. Please send abstracts to Professor Adam Dinham at a.dinham@gold.ac.uk by Friday 9th September 2016.

Costs: £36.00 for BSA members; £41 for Socrel members; £46.00 for non-members; £15 for BSA Concessionary members; £20.00 for Socrel Concessionary members; £25.00 for non-members concessionary.

Should you have any queries about the day, please do not hesitate to contact the event organizers, Professor Adam Dinham a.dinham@gold.ac.uk or Rachael Shillitoe r.shillitoe@worc.ac.uk. For further details, visit the SocRel website www.socrel.org.uk.  For further details about the BSA visit www.britsoc.co.uk

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The European Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy 2016

The Waterfront Hotel, Brighton, United Kingdom

Monday, July 4 – Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 1, 2016

Registration Deadline for Presenters: June 1, 2016

Conference Theme and Streams

 

Conference Theme: “Justice”

The conference theme for ECERP2016 is “Justice”, and the organisers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions across a variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives.

Submissions are organised into the following thematic streams:

  • Philosophy – Philosophy and Religion
  • Philosophy – Philosophy and the Arts
  • Philosophy – Philosophy and Public Policy
  • Philosophy – Philosophy and Technology
  • Philosophy – Philosophy and Culture
  • Philosophy – Philosophy and Education
  • Philosophy – Philosophy and Peace Studies
  • Philosophy – Comparative Philosophy
  • Philosophy – Linguistics, Language and Philosophy
  • Ethics – Medical Ethics
  • Ethics – Business and Management Ethics
  • Ethics – Ethics in Education
  • Ethics – Ethics, Law, and Justice
  • Ethics – Ethics and Globalization
  • Ethics – Ethics and Science
  • Ethics – Comparative Ethics
  • Ethics – Linguistics, Language and Ethics
  • Religion – Theism and Atheism
  • Religion – Feminism and Religious Traditions
  • Religion – Religion and Education
  • Religion – Religion and Peace Studies
  • Religion – Mysticism, Faith, and Scientific Culture
  • Religion – Interfaith Dialogue
  • Religion – Comparative Religion
  • Religion – Linguistics, Language and Religion
  • Interdisciplinary – Conflict Resolution and Mediation Studies

How to Submit

  • Register with our online submission system.
  • Create your account. Your email address will be used as your username and you will be asked to submit a password.
  • Submit your abstract of no more than 250 words, choosing from the presentation formats listed below (Individual, Poster or Virtual).
  • Submit well before the submission deadline in order to benefit from Early Bird rates.
  • Your proposal will normally be reviewed within two to three weeks after undergoing a double blind peer review. Those who submit near the extended deadline will usually receive results by March 15, 2016.
  • If your proposal is accepted you will be invited to register for the conference. Upon payment of the registration fee, you will be sent a confirmation email receipt.