38th annual Conference in Implicit Religion (secular faith(s)) — Denton Hall, May 8-10, 2015

38th annual Conference in Implicit Religion

Dear Colleague,

The 38th annual Conference in Implicit Religion (secular faith(s)) will be held at Denton Hall, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, UK from 6 pm Friday May 8th to 2 pm Sunday May 10th, 2015.

The entire event takes place in the Hall, making it truly a confer-ence. The Conference Papers are therefore distributed electronically in advance (during April), and then “spoken to” for five minutes to launch their discussion. This collegiality is furthered by the limitation on accommodation (24 single/double bedrooms. The total fee is £30 deposit, plus £125 conference (Papers, Board and Accommodation, all included).

This may be the last time we hold the event at this much valued venue, overlooking the Yorkshire Moors. In future it may be held at the more commodious Sarum College in the Cathedral Close at Salisbury. However, we anticipate this year having space for one or two more Papers and three or four more Participants.

If you would like to join us this year, please say so soon. If you would like to offer a Paper please send a Title and Abstract.

Current Papers:

Meerten & Marlies ter Borg Title awaited
Peter Brierley London: the exception to ‘the exceptional case’ that dis-proves the rule?
Steve Doehrman Clinical Psychologists Practice their Profession as a Religion
Neville Emslie Title awaited
Leslie Francis Implicit religion, explicit religion and attitude toward substances: an empirical enquiry among 13- to 15-year-old adolescents
George Gonzales The Ritualization of Consumer Capitalism; Catherine Bell’s Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice in the Age of Starbucks
Ivo Jiraseck The Czech Comic Strip “Fast Arrows”, and the boundaries of implicit religion.
William Keenan The Phoney Holy War: A Critique of the Implicit Ideology of the Spiritual Revolution
Ton Meijknecht tbc
Guy Menard An Unexpected Journey. Explicit and Implicit Religious Dimensions of Technology
Setefano Sbalchiero Spiritualities of Scientific Workers: quanti-qualitative results of a survey with a lexi-textual approach to open-ended questions
Israel Sevanayagam Krishna’s frolics with the Milkmaids: humanising Divinity, or Sacralising profanity?
Francis Stewart Nailing Descartes to the Wall: anarchism, punk rock and animal rights
Paul-Francois Tremlett Occupy Hong Kong:Enchanted Dissent in the Heart of the Capitalist Utopia
Pavel Veselsky Implicit Religion within the Bhagavad Gita.
Barbara Walters Cultural Commitments and Gender Parity: Human Rights as Implicit Religion

I look forward to hearing from you! Meanwhile please remember Implicit Religion: Journal of the C.S.I.R.C.S., in which some of the Denton Papers are also published. If you like to let me know your current interests, I will also be happy to send you the Contents pages of Books that are looking for Review in the Journal.

With best wishes and apologies for cross-posting,

Edward Bailey

Editor Implicit Religion
www.equinoxpub.com/IR
Founder CSIRCS
www.implicitreligion.org

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