Centre for Society, Religion and Belief

The Centre for Society, Religion and Belief responds to major trends in society and culture. Religion and belief in society is a subject of serious concern, cutting across all sectors of our social world from national and international governments and policy makers, to local communities, social groups, individuals and academics.

Recent projects

  • Arts and insanity: the role of the arts in rehabilitation
  • Feminist approaches to arts therapy
  • Representations of millenarian beliefs on British television
  • Folk beliefs in the divinity of Diana, Princess of Wales
  • Gender in contemporary evangelical Christianity in the UK
  • Sociology of religion
  • Maternal attachment and an examination of 'churching' rituals

Centre for Society, Religion and Belief
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