Friday 2 May 2014, Queen’s University Belfast (Senate Room)
09.00 – 09.30 Welcome and introduction by symposium organisers
Véronique Altglas, Eric Morier-Genoud and Matthew Wood
09.30 – 10.45 Understanding Faiths and Theologies
Christophe Monnot (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Does being a good sociologist of religion mean being a specialist in a specific faith?
Gwendoline Malogne-Fer (Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, CNRS, France)
Protestant churches and the ‘marriage for all’: ‘theological’ criteria and the sociological approach
10.45 – 11.15 Break for refreshments
11.15 – 12.30 Understanding Mysticism and Spirituality
Alix Philippon (Institut d’Études Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence, CHERPA, France)
Essentialization, idealization and vilification: a reassessment of axiological neutrality in the sociological study of ‘mystical’ and ‘political’ Islam in Pakistan
Véronique Altglas (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
Spirituality and discipline: not a contradiction in terms
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 Ethnographic film: Laatoo: Dance and Spirituality in Pakistan
Directed by Alix Philippon and Faizaan Peerzada (2003)
14.30 – 15.45 Understanding Emotions and Behaviours
Yannick Fer (Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, CNRS, France)
Studying religious emotions as a social fact: from pre-notions to the (re)shaping of a sociological object
Matthew Wood (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
Congregational studies, worship, and region behaviour
15.45 – 16.15 Break for refreshments
16.15 – 17.30 Understanding Mission and Secularisation
Eric Morier-Genoud (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
Reverse mission? A critical approach
Christopher Bunn (University of Glasgow, UK)
Foucault’s neglected secularisation: new pastoralism, confession and messianic managerialism
17.30 – 18.45 Ethnographic film: Bread or Coconut: Moorea and the Two Traditions
Directed by Yannick Fer and Gwendoline Malogne-Fer (2010)
18.45 – 19.00 Closing remarks
Registration is free (includes lunch) but must be booked before 11 April 2014:
please contact Véronique Altglas (v.altglas@qub.ac.uk)