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***Apologies for cross-posting*** Dear colleagues, As members may have seen in our Socrel newsletter, the annual conference for 2021 will now take place online via zoom on from 13th to 15th July 2021. To deliver a paper, please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words. We will also be accepting a limited number of panel proposals. To deliver a panel, please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words. Due to the process of receiving and reviewing abstracts, we are unable to automatically accept those abstracts submitted and accepted for the 2020 conference. However, we warmly welcome all those who submitted abstracts for 2020 to resubmit your abstract for 2021. All presenters must be members of Socrel. Please follow this link for the call for papers<https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/bsa-socrel-delayed-annual-conference-2021-celebrating-socrel-at-45-beyond-binaries-in-the-sociology-of-religio/> and to access the portal to submit your abstract. Information about the conference, including theme and speakers, can also be found on the page above. Further details regarding registration and how presentations will be delivered (e.g. live or pre-recorded) will be uploaded in due course. Abstracts must be submitted by 10 February 2021. Key Dates: Abstract submission: Open now Early bird registration opens: 20 January 2021 Abstract submission closes: 10 February 2021 Decision notification: 26 February 2021 Presenter registration closes: 26 March 2021 Registration closes: 30th June 2021 Should you have any questions or queries, then please do not hesitate to get in touch. Best wishes, Rachael Dr Rachael Shillitoe Research Fellow Conference and Events Officer for the British Sociological Association, Sociology of Religion Group (SocRel) School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT Latest articles: Shillitoe, R. and Strhan, A. (2020) ‘Just leave it blank’ non-religious children and their negotiation of prayer in school. Religion, 50 (4): 615-635, article here<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0048721X.2020.1758230?journalCode=rrel20> Strhan, A. and Shillitoe, R. (2019) The Stickiness of Non-religion? Intergenerational Transmission and the Formation of Non-Religious Identities in Childhood. Sociology 53 (6), pp.1094-1110, article here<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0038038519855307> SOCREL-PG is the Postgraduate e-mail list of the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group. To join SOCREL-PG, send the following one-line message: join socrel-pg YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME to: <[log in to unmask]> Send contributions to the list by sending messages to: [log in to unmask] To leave SOCREL-PG, send the following one-line message: leave socrel-pg YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME to: <[log in to unmask]>