The other week I mentioned that I was going to someone else’s event and a couple of members met up in a bar afterwards to discus what was said. I’m thinking of doing the same at this event:
Professor Linda Woodhead MBE DD
Why ‘no religion’ is the new religion
Tuesday 19 January 2016, 6-7.15pm, followed by a reception
The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Chaired by: Rev Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch Kt, DD, FBA
Britain is one of only a handful of countries in the world which is rapidly moving from having a Christian majority to a ‘no religion’ majority. But we are not becoming secular – only a quarter of us are confident there is no God; fewer than one in ten report being influenced by secularism. The lecture approaches this apparent paradox by excavating the category of ‘no religion’, and showing how and why the categories of the religious and the secular are losing their analytic power in relation to the current cultural situation. Drawing on new research, it traces the emerging outlines of a new, post-Protestant, moral paradigm.
Professor Linda Woodhead MBE DD is co-director of the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University, and co-founder of the Westminster Faith Debates. Recent books include That was the Church, that was: How the Church of England lost the English People, A Sociology of Prayer, Christianity: A Very Short Introduction, and Everyday Lived Islam in Europe.
Let me know if you feel inclined to join me!
Date/Time
Date(s) - 19/01/2016 (Tuesday)
6.00 pm - 9.30 pm
Location
The British Academy
Categories
I guess this is the event:
http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2016/Why_no_religion_is_the_new_religion.cfm
It is, yes. I might even try to maintain a monthly ‘Someone Else’s Meeting’ as an attempt to add a Social aspect to Philosophy, surely what a Philosophy Society ought to do!