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Announcement:
Re-emergence of Religion as a Social Force in Europe?
End of Programme Conference
4 June 2010, Cambridge, UK More details
Relemerge Book Publications:
Visibly Muslim: Fashion, Politics, Faith by Emma Tarlo
Moved by Mary: The Power of Pilgrimage in the Modern World edited by Anna-Karina Hermkens, Willy Jansen and Catrien Notermans
Relemerge is the website of a programme of ten international academic research projects responding to the theme:
Re-emergence of Religion as a Social Force in Europe?
Funded by NORFACE. NORFACE stands for New Opportunities for Research Funding Co-operation in Europe. It is a partnership of national funding agencies from Estonia, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and the UK. Canada and Austria participate as associate partners. For further details go to: www.norface.org
The programme probes the current condition of religion in Europe against the background of European secularism and the re-kindling of religious activity brought about by the political and social changes in Europe of the past thirty years.
The ten innovative and methodologically varied projects take a look at the significance of religion in contemporary social life, as well as exploring the social and cultural impacts of recent religious growth points, such as Pentecostalism and Islam.
Quantitative studies analyse data from the major social surveys conducted over the past ten years to examine whether religion has re-emerged as a social force, how much has changed, how much is religion still in decline, how far have new migrant groups transformed or merely refreshed the picture.
Qualitative projects involving ethnographic, visual and other methodologies, look at the detail of religious activity through empirical and theoretical research, exploring issues concerning gender, transnational processes, the politics of religious cultures, new forms of religious expression and many other dimensions of contemporary relevance.
The Programme was launched in March 2007 and will continue through 2010.
Scientific Co-ordinator of the programme: Professor Roger Hewitt, Goldsmiths, University of London. Email: r.hewitt@gold.ac.uk
If you would like to join our mailing list and receive further information about the Relemerge programme as it becomes available please contact Charlotte Bates, Goldsmiths, Univeristy of London. Email: c.bates@gold.ac.uk
