Events
Saturday 10th July
Online via Zoom
The Seventh Conference of the
Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Saturday 10th July 2021 as an online event (via Zoom).
11:30am to 3:30pm
Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Religious and Spiritual Experiences
The keynote speaker this year is Prof Jane Shaw, University of Oxford and Principal of the Harris Manchester College, where Sir Alister Hardy founded the research centre more than 50 years ago. Prof Shaw will give the annual Alister Hardy Lampeter Lecture with the title Religious Experience and the early twentieth-century Revival of Mysticism. Prof Shaw is Professor of the History of Religion and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Oxford. She is the author of several books, including Miracles in Enlightenment England (Yale 2006) and Octavia, Daughter of God: the story of a female messiah and her followers (Jonathan Cape 2011).
Other speakers are Dr Jack Hunter on “Listening to the Land: Other-than-Human Voices in the Anthropocene” and Prof Marta de Freitas on her research on “Religious Experiences and Mental Health: Psychological implications.”
The conference is free of charge and will be hosted by the Alister Hardy Trust on Zoom. If you are interested in attending, email Mike Rush (mikerush@virginmedia.com) who will circulate the link a day prior to the conference.
Online via Zoom
The Seventh Conference of the
Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Saturday 10th July 2021 as an online event (via Zoom).
11:30am to 3:30pm
Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Religious and Spiritual Experiences
The keynote speaker this year is Prof Jane Shaw, University of Oxford and Principal of the Harris Manchester College, where Sir Alister Hardy founded the research centre more than 50 years ago. Prof Shaw will give the annual Alister Hardy Lampeter Lecture with the title Religious Experience and the early twentieth-century Revival of Mysticism. Prof Shaw is Professor of the History of Religion and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Oxford. She is the author of several books, including Miracles in Enlightenment England (Yale 2006) and Octavia, Daughter of God: the story of a female messiah and her followers (Jonathan Cape 2011).
Other speakers are Dr Jack Hunter on “Listening to the Land: Other-than-Human Voices in the Anthropocene” and Prof Marta de Freitas on her research on “Religious Experiences and Mental Health: Psychological implications.”
The conference is free of charge and will be hosted by the Alister Hardy Trust on Zoom. If you are interested in attending, email Mike Rush (mikerush@virginmedia.com) who will circulate the link a day prior to the conference.