9.45-10.00: Introduction: Dr Leah Robinson and Dr Steven Sutcliffe
10-10.45 Keynote Professor Callum Brown (Glasgow): ‘The Humanist Condition: How the West was Re-moralised for Atheism’
10.45-11 Coffee
11-12.30 Panel One: Expressions of Popular and New Religion
- Dr Leah Robinson (Edinburgh): ‘God on our Side? Theological Understandings of Scottish Soldiers at War’
- Dr Steven Sutcliffe (Edinburgh): ‘ “I think he is a Tolstoyan”: Dugald Semple, Food Reform and Conscientious Objection in World War I and after’
- Dr George Chryssides (York St JohnYork St John UniversityYork St John University): ‘A New Religion in an Old Country: How Scotland shaped the Jehovah’s Witnesses’
12.30-1.30 Lunch (bring your own)
1.30-3 Panel Two: Cultural Change and Established Traditions
- Dr Marion Bowman (Open University):‘Walking Back to Happiness’
- Dr Khadijah Elshayyal (Edinburgh): ‘Muslims in Scotland: new findings from the 2011 Census’
- Dr Hannah Holtschneider (Edinburgh): ‘Interpreting Jewish migration to Scotland’ Interpreting Jewish migration to Scotland’?
3-3.15: Tea
3.15-4.45: Panel Three: New Discourses
- Christopher Cotter (Lancaster): ‘Discourse, (Non-)Religion, and Locality: Religion-Related Discourses in Edinburgh’s Southside’
- Krittika Bhattacharjee (Edinburgh): ‘The everyday life of a visitor spot: the place of the ‘special’ on the island of Iona’
- Liam Sutherland (Edinburgh): ‘ “One Nation, Many Faiths”: Banal Nationalism, Religious Pluralism and Public Space in Scottish Interfaith Literature’
4.45/5 closing comments Dr Scott Spurlock (Glasgow/SRCN)
