News articles from the BASR
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REGISTRATION CLOSED Please note we will not be charging for those presenting online, so there is no need to register. However, we would be grateful if you could confirm that you will be presenting. Please also note that the timings for the conference are in British Summer Time (the local time zone for the conference…
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Are you an academic passionate about bringing you research to new audiences? Or are you an artist passionate about using your work for social change? Supported by the Open Societal Challenges Fund and the British Association for the Study of Religions, the Open University, King’s College London and Pitik Bulag cartoon collective are launching a competition…
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Religion, Space and Place Friday 5th September, 2025. Online, hosted by the Open University. REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: Click Here The BASR is pleased to be supporting the quinquennial IAHR conference in Krakow this year and we hope to see many of you there. As is our usual custom in an IAHR year, we will be…
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BASR Annual Conference 2023 In collaboration with CenSAMM Clare College, Cambridge 11 – 13 September 2023 “Environmental Endings and Religious Futures” Keynote Speakers: Professor Catherine Wessinger, Professor of the History of Religions, Loyola University New Orleans. Dr. Katherine Swancutt, Reader in Social Anthropology, King’s College London. Conference Timetable: Call for Papers: Religions have long offered…
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BASR 2022 Conference Booking is now open for the first in-person BASR conference since the beginning of the pandemic (with hybrid options)! The conference is taking place from 30 August to 1 September at The Open University, Milton Keynes. See here for booking and more information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/british-association-for-the-study-of-religions-annual-conference-2022-tickets-380260729077 The conference schedule, including individual papers, is also…
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BASR Annual Conference 6-7 September 2021, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh BASR Annual Conference 6-7 September 2021, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh “From Religious Studies to the Study of Religion/s: Disciplinary Futures for the 21st century” Registration for the conference is now open. Please fill in this form to register: https://forms.gle/8Wkw66Yb5SCEnBHq7. Please note that registration is provisional…
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BASR Annual Conference 6-7 September 2021, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh BASR Annual Conference 6-7 September 2021, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh “From Religious Studies to the Study of Religion/s: Disciplinary Futures for the 21st century” Registration for the conference is now open. Please fill in this form to register: https://forms.gle/8Wkw66Yb5SCEnBHq7. Please note that registration is provisional…
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Each year, the BASR Exec awards a single Teaching and Learning Fellowship to a colleague in recognition of their contribution to the student learning experience in the study of religions. This Fellowship includes an award of £300 plus a funded place at the BASR Annual Conference. The expectation of the person receiving this Fellowship is…
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In response to the threat of job losses faced by colleagues in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Chester, the committee members of the British Association for the Study of Religions have produced the attached letter. We hereby express our solidarity and highlight the relevance of TRS Chester to the…
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The publication of the British Academy’s Report, Theology and Religious Studies Provision in UK Higher Education, in May 2019 was widely reported in the press, where the study of religion was presented as a relic in terminal decline. Yet many Religious Studies colleagues immediately raised concerns, both about the conflation of RS and confessional approaches,…
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This panel, curated by Wendy Dossett (University of Chester), discusses the Commission for Religious Education’s proposal for a shift towards studying “Religion and Worldviews” in Secondary Religious Education. Contributions from Wendy Dossett, Rudi Eliott Lockhart (former CEO of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales), Suzanne Owen (Leeds Trinity University), Paul-Francois Tremlett (Open University)…
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The opening panel from BASR 2020 focused on Teaching and Learning. First is a presentation from 2020 Teaching Award recipient Melanie Prideaux, together with her student Natasha Jones (both University of Leeds). This is followed by an open discussion on the COVID-19 pivot to online delivery, with contributions from Dawn Llewellyn (2019 Teaching Award recipient,…
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