Panels | 5-6 July 2018, King’s College London
Worldviews in World View: Particularizing Secularism,Secularity and Nonreligion*Please note that room assignments and chairs will be confirmed at the start of the conference.

Unpacking culture
Atko Remmel, “Religious vs cultural? Some findings about the unexpecteddichotomy”
Metin Koca, “Seeking Cultural Change in the Reproduction of Intolerance:Secularism, Islamism and ‘others’ in Turkey’s experience of Democratization”
Mascha Schulz, “Singing Songs for a Secular Society: Cultural Activist and Religion’s‘Other’ in Sylhet”
Masato Kato, “Mediating ‘Religious’ and ‘Non-Religious’ Spaces: A CulturalExpression of a Japanese Religion in Postwar France”

The Self I: considering the sacred
James Murphy, “Reinterpreting sacred experiences: Examining how exposure toglobal and historical diversity can transform an individual's meaning system”
Galen Watts, “The ‘Religious’ and ‘Secular’ Nature of Self-Spirituality: Insights fromthe field”
Stacey Gutkowski, “Occupation, Generational Memory and ‘Secular’ Self-Talk: thecase of Generation Y Jewish-Israelis”

The Self II: considering spirituality
Joel Thiessen & Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, “Religiosity, Spirituality, and Secularity
among Nones in the United States and Canada”
Nick Stauner, “Self-Reported Reasons for Nonbelief in the Existence of God(s)”Danijela Jerotijević, “Social and psychological aspects of collective spiritual
therapies”
Adam Baimel, Catherine Li, & Ara Norenzayan, “Eco-spirituality promotes
environmentalism similarly in atheists and religious individuals”

Governance and state power
Patrick B.S. Pillay, “Non-Religion, Secularism and the South African Socio-Religious
Context: South African Constitutionality in Dialogue with Talal Asad and CharlesTaylor”
Rogelio Leal Benavides, “Is Confucianism a Cultural Civil Religion?”
Mitsutoshi Horii, “The Allied Occupation of Japan 1945-1952 and the Categories of‘Religion(s)’ and ‘Secularity’”
Sushmita Nath, “A Secular Age in Modern India? Jawaharlal Nehru and the Questionof Indian Secularity”

Religious tradition and the secular
Florian Zemmin, “Islam as Religion and Secularity: Expressing a modern conceptual
distinction from within a discursive tradition”
Masoumeh Rahmani, “Linguistic structures behind ambiguous non-Buddhist, nonreligious identities”
Timothy Jones, “What possible meaning can the post-secular have?”
Hulya Arik, “Contesting the “Islamic” in Islamic Revival: Women Practicing Islamic
Visual Arts in Istanbul, Turkey”

Everyday lived non-religion
Rachael Shillitoe and Anna Strhan, “Growing Up Nonreligious: The Intra–Regionality of Children’s Unbeliefs”

Robin Allen, “What’s Love Got to Do With It? An Exploratory Study of Religious
Nones Experiences With Dating, Relationships and Marriage”
Joanna Malone, “Insights into the Experiences, Stability and Nature of Unbelief forOlder Adults in the UK: Regional Perspectives”
Jamin Halberstadt, “The maintenance of extinctivism in the face of challenging
experiences”

Re-thinking belief
Mari Ovsepyan, “The Anatomy of Unbelief: Cognitive Science of Religion andSecularisation”
Valerie van Mulukom, “Secular versus religious worldviews: Do they fulfil the same
psychological functions?”
Aura Di Febo, Multi-faced Religiosity: Negotiating shinkō (faith) and shūkyō(religion) in the secularised space of social welfare in Japan”
F. LeRon Shults & Thomas Coleman III, “Analyzing Analytic Worldviews:Particularizing Nonreligion through Computational Modeling and Simulation”

Media, old and new
Karin van Nieuwkerk, “Understanding Nonbelief in Egypt”
Mohammad Magout, “The Role of the Press in the Evolution of Secularism in theArab World: The Case of al-Jinān (1870-1886)”
David Herbert & Stefan Fisher-Høyrem, “Ex- and non-religious outsiders in theNorwegian ‘Bible belt’”Evelina Lundmark, “Coming Out as an Atheist: Embedded and Embodied Self
Performance on YouTube”

The role of comparison
Marek Sullivan, “Secular magic: vanishing others in a secular age”
Lois Lee, “Unbelief in ‘Glocal’ Perspective”
David Herbert & Josh Bullock, “Reaching for a New Sense of Connection? The
Diversity of Unbelief in Northern and Central Europe — An Early Analysis”

Ryan Cragun, “Making Secularization Predictive: A Qualitative Comparative Analytic
Test”

Pluralism in a secular context
Maruta Herding & Anja Frank, “Secular Worldviews among Young People of Muslim
Background”
Steve Kettell, “Do Religious Actors Use Public Reason? The Case of Assisted Dying inBritain?”
Irmak Yazici, “Trans-Religious Manifestations of the Secular: Revisiting the Conceptof Blasphemy in Non-western Contexts”

Society and politics
Selin Dingiloğlu, “‘Raising secularism’: Secular educational activism in Turkey”
Yosr Ben-Slima, TBC, the case of Tunisia
Nestor Da Costa & Hugo H. Rabbia, “Exploring non-religion in South America”

We are grateful to our sponsors:
King’s Worldwide Partnership Fund, King’s College London
Understanding Unbelief Programme, University of Kent
Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King’s College London
Department of War Studies, King’s College London
Walter deGruyter PressLondon Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership