Details of two events which may be of interest.#
Peter.
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>BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (BSA)
>SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION STUDY GROUP
>STUDY DAY
>"Mainstream Religions:
>Conflicts, Diasporas, Issues"
>Saturday, 17th November, 2001
>St. Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham TW1 4SX
>
>Programme
>(preliminary)
>
>
>9.30 Registration & Coffee
>10.00-11.15 Plenary
> John Fulton: "Tracing the Religious Component of Conflict in Ireland"
> Joanne Abbotts: "Catholic Disadvantage in the West of Scotland"
>11.30-12.45 Stream A
> Noel Heather: "Critical Discourse Analysis and Church as Conflict and
> Harmony"
> Paula D. Nesbitt: "Multiculturalism, Co-optation, and Conflict"
> Stream B
> Peter McGrail: "First Communion: Transformations in Ritual and Parish
> Structures"
> Richard O'Leary: "One Bread, One Body: The Challenge of Inter-church
> Communion"
>12.45-14.00 Lunch
>14.00-1515 Stream A
> Matthew Wood: "Cosmopolitan Consumers? Black Methodists in the
> Global City"
> Mike Hill: "Asian Values as Western Dreams"
> Stream B
> David Voas: "Mixed Marriage: Motor of Mainstream Decline?"
> Jim Sweeney: "Crisis? What Crisis?"
>15.30-16.45 Stream A
> Peter Edge: "Racially Motivated Crimes and Islamophobia"
> Philip Clark: "Religion, Ethics and the Fighting Forces"
> Stream B
> Ewan Ingleby: "Contesting Decisions in Seminary"
> Mike Hornsby-Smith: "Global Capitalism and Catholic Social Activism"
>16.45-17.15 Plenary
> Bill Swatos: Comments & Closure
Contact:
>Dr Elisabeth Arweck, Convenor,
>BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group
>c/o 15 Kirk Close, Oxford OX2 8JL
> by Friday, 9th November, 2001
>If you send your registration in time, you will receive a confirmation slip
>& a map.
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Centre for Legal Research and Policy Studies, Oxford Brookes University
in conjunction with
The Journal of Civil Liberties.
Hate speech/hate crime and religion.
Colloquium, 4th May 2002.
Research Centre, Oxford Brookes University, SG03.
Programme.
10.00-10.30 Registration and coffee.
10.30-10.45 Welcome.
10.45-11.40 Islamophobia and hate crime, Peter Edge, Oxford Brookes University.
11.40-12.00 Coffee
12.00-12.55 Punishing religious hate crime: Some lessons to be learned from 'race' crime, Fernne Brennan, Essex University.
12.55-1.45 Buffet lunch.
1.45-2.40 TBC, David Nash, Oxford Brookes University.
2.40-3.30 Counter-message legislation, Peter Jepson, Strode's College.
3.30-3.50 Coffee
3.50-4.40 "Of course, some of my best friends are cultists …", Eileen Barker, London School of Economics.
4.40-5.10 Closing discussion.
Colloquium fee of £20 includes papers in advance,
lunch and refreshments. Places are limited. Contact Peter Edge ([log in to unmask]) to reserve a place.
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