Registration is currently open for the Men, Masculinites and Religious change, please contact Dr Sue Morgan (s.morgan@chi.ac.uk) for more details about attendance.
I have posted the conference outline below, of particular note for the NSRN community is Professor Callum Brown’s paper ‘How men have lost religion since 1940’. The conference is taking place on 20 April 2012 in the Rylands Room at King’s College, Cambridge.
Men, Masculinities and Religious Change
20 April 2012, Rylands Room, King’s College, Cambridge
10am
Dr Sue Morgan, University of Chichester, and Dr Lucy Delap, St Catharine’s College – Why religion and masculinities?
10.30-11.30
Dr Alana Harris, University of Oxford – ‘Modern Catholic Masculinity and the Catenian Association: 1908-2008’
Dr Sean Brady, Birkbeck, University of London – ‘Sectarianism, religion and masculinity: Northern Ireland after 1921’
11.30 coffee
11.45-1.15
Dr Amanullah de Sondy, University of Miami – ‘British Muslim Men in the late 20th Century’
Dr Stephen Hunt, University of the West of England – ‘Masculinities, Spirituality and New Religious Movements in Late Twentieth Century Britain’
Dr Tim Jones, University of Glamorgan – ‘Christianity and the Making of Modern Homosexuality’
Lunch 1.15-2pm
2pm-3.30
Dr Susan Tananbaum, Bowdoin College – “Establishing healthy minds in healthy bodies in our rising generation’: Models of Masculinity in the Jewish East End, 1890-1930s’
Dr Alison Falby, Trinity College, Toronto – ‘Buddhist Psychology and Masculinity in Early Twentieth Century Britain’
Dr Ben Griffin, Girton College, Cambridge – ‘Religious Change and Male Domestic Authority in Late Nineteenth Century Britain’
3.30-3.45 – tea
3.45-4.45
Prof. Callum Brown, University of Dundee – ‘How men have lost religion since 1940’
Dr Sumita Mukherjee, Keble College, University of Oxford – ‘The Growth of a Masculine Hindu Community in Britain, 1936-7’
4.45-5.15 Closing discussion
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