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Provisional conference programme: Parallel sessions Parallel sessions AM SESSION 1 - A Researching the beliefs of non-believers Chair: Nicholas Gibson Supernatural Agency Detection in Random Visual Noise Kirsten Barnes, University of Cambridge (Psychology) Atheism in Post-Socialist Conditions: The Examples of Slovenia and Croatia Marjan Smrke, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (Sociology) Belief in Science and in the "Da Vinci Code": Measuring naturalistic beliefs and its cognitive correlates Miguel Farias, University of Oxford (Psychology) SESSION 1 - B Problems and prospects for faith/non-faith dialogue Chair: Lois Lee The 'Return of Religion' and the Return of the Criticism of Religion - The 'New Atheism' in Recent German and American Culture Thomas Zenk, Free University Berlin, Germany (Religious Studies) Christo-secular ambivalence in British security policy, 2001-2009 Stacey Gutkowski, University of Cambridge (International Relations) Title TBC David Nash, Oxford Brookes (History) SESSION 1 - C Non-religion and community Chair: Johannes Quack The good atheistic Samaritan: Intrinsic, extrinsic and quest atheism and its relationship with prosocial behaviour Sven Oelsner, University of Jena, Germany (Psychology) Members of Atheist/Freethought/Secularist Organizations in Germany and the United States Bjoern Mastiaux, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany (Sociology) Researching belief without asking religious questions Abby Day, University of Sussex (Anthropology) Parallel sessions PM SESSION 2 - A Categories and categorising non-religion Chair: Stacey Gutowski Dimensions and types of non-religiosity: Scale development in progress Nicholas Gibson (presenting), University of Cambridge (Psychology); Claire White, University of Oxford (Anthropology); Kirsten Barnes, University of Cambridge (Psychology) Methodological Challenges in Understanding Different Modes and Locations of Irreligiosity Teemu Taira, University of Leeds (Religious Studies) A British secular-religious cleavage? Stratos Patrikios, University of Strathclyde (Political Science) SESSION 2 - B The study of non-religion and secularisation theory Chair: Stephen Bullivant A Secular Mind Jonathan Lanman, University of Oxford (Anthropology) The challenge of popular religion to atheism: a socio-cognitive approach Steven Sutcliffe, University of Edinburgh (Religious Studies) Theoretical and methodological resources for breaking open the secular and exploring the boundary between religion and non-religion Kim Knott, University of Leeds (Sociology) |
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