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Young people and belief

06 September 10

Phase 2 Network Belief as cultural performance:Towards a new framework for studying the religious and secular life-worlds of young people organised an international workshop in Oxford in July 2010 on 'Young people and the cultural performance of belief'. Read the report from the event written by the network's principal investigator Professor Gordon Lynch and one of its co-convenor's Dr Abby Day from here.

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H2O Pink Label

31 August 10

Phase 3 Small Grant holder Reina Lewis from the London College of Fashion was recently interviewed about her project Modest Dressing: faith-based fashion and internet retail by H2O pink label, an Orthodox Jewish New York-based company involved in the study. Read the interview here.

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Disenchanment on Radio 4

18 August 10

Programme Director Professor Linda Woodhead and Phase 1 large grant holder Professor David Voas were two of Laurie Taylor's guests discussing the disenchantment of the West on Thinking Allowed BBC Radio 4. Listen to the programme from here.

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Performing Islam - a new journal

12 August 10

This exciting new journal has developed out of Kamal Salhi's Phase 1 network Performance, Politics, Piety. He is co-editing it with Karin van Nieuwkerk (Radbound University, the Netherlands) and they are now seeking contributions. Contact Dr Karin van Nieuwkerk: k.v.nieuwkerk@rs.ru.nl or Dr Kamal Salhi: K.salhi@leeds.ac.uk for more information and click here to access the official call.

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The Sacredness of Hair

26 July 10

On 12th July 2010 Jasjit Singh took part in an episode of BBC Radio 4's Beyond Belief on 'The Sacredness of Hair'. Listen to it and his other recent appearances on Radio 2's Pause for Thought from here. Jas is the doctoral student on Phase 2 Collaborative Studentship Keeping the Faith: The transmissions of "Sikhism" among young British Sikhs (18-30).

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Guardian write up of Faith and Policy event

21 July 10

Journalist Mark Vernon attended 'Faith and Policy- Where next?' co-organised by the Religion and Society Programme and Goldsmiths' Faiths and Civil Society Unit at the British Library on 1st July 2010 and has written it up for The Guardian Comment is Free Belief section. Read it here.

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Award holder on Thinking Allowed

19 July 10

Holder of Phase 1 Small Grant The Myth of British Identity and the Failure of Multiculturalism? Dr Kaye Haw from Nottingham University spoke on BBC Radio 4's social science programme Thinking Allowed about her research with young people in an area of urban deprivation and the media. Listen here.

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History of the World and BBC Sunday Programme Call

08 July 10

As research manager at the British Museum, Programme Streeing Committee member JD Hill is very much involved with A History of the World and passing on the BBC's invitation to upload objects that have both a religious and historical interest. If you have an object, however old, that you think tells an important story about religion and society in the UK or anywhere else in the world you would like to share, please visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/

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