Implicit Religion
www.implicitreligion.co.uk
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.
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- And now the 2025 Implicit Religion US Conference comes to a close. It has been a fantastic two days of conversation, discussion, learning and friendship. It always goes far too quickly. Thanks to all the presenters. Thank you to @drangelasutton.bsky.social for her incredible keynote. To 2026!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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- 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...
- A massive thank you to everyone who attended, presented, asked questions and supported each other at the 47th Implicit Religion UK conference. It was a wonderful weekend full of good conversation, friendship, support and enjoyment. Here's to next year (after some sleep first).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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).
- 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
- 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
