From Vernacular Religion to Contemporary Spirituality:
Locating Religion in European Ethnology
January 10-11, 2003

4th ESRC Research Seminar in European Ethnology, hosted by the Belief Beyond Boundaries Research Group, Religious Studies, The Open University, Milton Keynes.

This event will bring together scholars working in a variety of disciplines whose research relates to all aspects of religion as it is lived, from
the more traditional folk cultural aspects of religion (and the religious aspects of cultural tradition) to the varied and vibrant contemporary religious scene of New Religious Movements and alternative spirituality. Drawing on vernacular religious theory as ëan interdisciplinary approach to the study of the religious lives of individuals with special attention to the process of religious belief, the verbal, behavioral, and material expressions of religious belief, and the ultimate object of religious beliefí (Primiano 1995), we shall explore methodological and disciplinary issues and learn about religion as it is lived in Britain, Ireland, Norway, Hungary and elsewhere in Europe.

Enquiries and offers of 30 minute papers with titles and abstracts, please, by 15 September to Arts-rel-studies-conferences@open.ac.uk

For other information on other Research Seminars in Europeans Ethnology in this series, please visit
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/facults/les/EuropeanEthnology/ESRC.htm