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The official site for Implicit Religion, encompassing the Edward Bailey Research Centre, the Implicit Religion UK Conference, and the Implicit Religion US workshop and conference.
Our final presentation is by Darlene McLeod, a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa. She is speaking on alt-right and Christian nationalist protests, focusing on the Christian Nationalist exploitation of the Covid-19 pandemic through rhetoric's on victimhood and combat narratives.
May 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Jacques Parker, a masters student at UCSB is presenting on his work on deprogramming in relation to the category of cult and a fear of social change with a focus on how cases in which the deprogramming was motivated by homophobia, partially or in full and therefore included sexual assault and rape.
May 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Ashley Forgey now speaking on the growing recognition that religious beliefs & practises results in long lasting trauma offers new avenues for understanding the human experience. Mapping ex-evangelical Autistic people generating their own discourse about religious experience / trauma.
May 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Julianna Roseland, an UG student at NCSU is presenting on her work amongst Daughter Houses as a means of following Implicit Religion's capacity to help researchers listen to whispers over shouts. her presentation is titled " Daughter Houses: An Oral History of a Dominican Convent."
May 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The second day of the IR US conference opens with a workshop by @ichatterjea.bsky.social the executive director of @soraaad.bsky.social. Her workshop is entitled "Chaos v Developing & Sustaining a Qualitative Research & Writing Practice" focusing on the transition from student to writer / author.
May 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Up next for #IRUS we have George Gonzales and @drfstewart.bsky.social delivering a workshop on how to network, focusing on personal approaches to networks, being effective without exhausting yourself, networking as an introvert, UK / US differences and how to recover from networking.
May 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Amanda Furiasse on "Beyond Prediction: Al, Religious Ethics, and the Urban Imagination." Exploring how AI & urban planning often reflect extensive effects where efficiency, control & prediction are valued more than creativity and ethics. #IRUS
May 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Our first panel for #IR47 is opened by Octavio Carrasco, who is presenting on "Money and Moral Injury: the Implicit Religion of Squid Game." He is exploring the implicit religion of money as an image and also the system of capitalism as a form of implicit religion using Squid Game as an example.
May 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The extensive effects framework is an elegant way to reveal the interconnected nature of human experiences & their far reaching impacts on social structures & systems of power. But, there's significant challenges in establishing clear causal links in a phenomena & their extensive effects. #IR47
May 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Humans continuously seek new ways of finding meaning, understanding the world, & making commitments. These things in turn take on lives of their own and shape the world we live in, in our collective futures. Which is a really threatening prospect if we let them remain unconscious and unnamed. #IR47
May 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The Keynote by @drangelasutton.bsky.social begins by noting that once you start to see how books are constructed, you cannot unsee it. When deciding what you should do, collecting a wide sample of stories of what others did can help you understand and make a more productive start.
May 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Our annual Implicit Religion US conference starts very soon. Keynote by @drangelasutton.bsky.social (pirates, causation, oh my), workshops will be delivered by @soraaad.bsky.social and by Dr George Gonzalez & @drfstewart.bsky.social. Presenters talks will be promoted but details will not be shared.
May 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
IR US conference keynote is open to all. Delivered by Dr Angela Sutton, entitled "Beyond the limits of an Extensive Effects Framework" & on her new book "Pirates of the Slave Trade."
Keynote is free, online at 10:45 - 12 CST on 29th May.
Register to attend: www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/sele...
May 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The final presentation for #IR47 is by @drfstewart.bsky.social, she is speaking on Tracing the Gáe Bulg of Northern Irish punk’s antagonism to ‘deviant’ bodies.” She is exploring the impact of religion on socially constructed norms related to bodies that are coded as having atypical subjectivity.
May 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
For our final panel of #IR47 Tova Makhani-Belkin speaks on gender advocacy within the Baha'i community in Ireland. Key principles are equality in the eyes of God & should therefore ensure gender & spirituality equality, encouraging women to be full participants in all aspects of society.
May 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Next up is @annemariefoster.bsky.social speaking on her PhD work on the story of Bathsheba through womanist and feminist frameworks that focus on how gender, power, and silence function within the biblical text and its theological interpretations. #IR47
May 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Out next panel features @msamrc.bsky.social speaking on field notes from sites of climate crisis. She is focused on climate martyrs, the death of environmental defenders / known activists. In 23 / 24 there were 196 people murdered whilst protesting or defending the land (GlobalWitness.org).
May 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The 47th Implicit Religion is delighted to have George Gonzalez open up our Sunday series of panels, presenting on his recent ethnographic project with Rev Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping. #IR47
May 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Alice Bakradza is now presenting on her PhD work on Armenian ethnic minority women in Georgia and their experiences of motherhood. She is exploring how motherhood becomes a site of both cultural resistance and transformation as they negotiate traditional religious expectations. #IR47
May 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Our evening panel begins with Saifa Tazrin on clothing as resistance amongst urban middle class Bangladeshi Muslim women and the struggle for autonomy. She notes that the dressed body is a fundamental aspect of identity as dress choices serve as personal narratives & express social position. #IR47
May 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Our next presentation is by Maria Cecilia Johnson & Melisa Ruth Sanchez from the National University of Cordoba. They are speaking on the research they have been undertaking on gender based violence in Latin America, and note that religion is not as implicit there as it is elsewhere.
May 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Our next speaker is Natasha Gilani, who is speaking on her doctoral work focused on how marginalised communities, particularly queer women in Pakistan, navigate systems of erasure and oppression through innovative strategies of resistance and community building.
May 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
#IR47 returns. Our first paper today is being delivered by Dina Imanmukhamed who is working on spaces of belonging & identity formation in women's Quran courses in Kazakhstan. She begins by noting Muslim majority population & that post-Soviet Islamic revival has occurred under state supervision.
May 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
#IR47 Dr Moultrie notes the importance of strategic interdependence, that is be knowingly proximal to people on the margins, not to tell their story but to amplify their stories, teachings, words and voices.
May 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
We begin #IR47 with a keynote from Dr Monique Moultrie. It is based on her new book: www.dukeupress.edu/hidden-histo... which explores through womanism how Black lesbian women who are leaders negotiate racism, sexism and homophobia whilst remaining committed to social justice and their communities.
May 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM