Religion & Society Seminar Series
The Durham Religion and Society Research Seminar is a fortnightly forum for scholarly engagement with issues in the social scientific study of religion.
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Invited speakers are experts working on a range of religious phenomena, often within the contemporary world. The seminars are held at 12 noon in room DHC05A in person or where noted with *, at 7 PM remotely on Zoom Channel:
https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/99183897942?pwd=SjhWWjE1WjFsRFpjbXJHNTdNNTJSQT09
Meeting ID: 991 8389 7942; Passcode: 045860
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the seminar convenor, Professor
Jonathan Miles-Watson, jonathan.miles-watson@durham.ac.uk.
17 Oct 2024 at 12 Rethinking Religion and Society: religion and the skills economy
Professor Jonathan Miles-Watson, Durham University
*24 Oct 2024 at 7 PM Seeing Like a Shrine: pilgrimage through the power of number
Professor Simon Coleman, Toronto University
07 Nov 2024 at 12 Is Druidry an Indigenous Religion?
Dr Suzanne Owen, Leeds Trinity University
21 Nov 2024 at 12 Walking with the Ancestors: death, dying and funerals in modern Druidry
Dr Jennifer Uzzel, Saint and Forster Funeral Directors
*05 Dec 2024 at 7 PM The place (or absence) of religion in Silicon Valley
Dr Heather Mellquist Lehto, American Council of Learned Societies