The Edward Bailey Centre for the Study of Implicit Religion at Bishop Grosseteste University, serves as a hub for a wide range of activities, including the Implicit Religion conference each May, working in local schools, university modules, research projects, and free public events.
Since 1978, scholars gather from around the world to discuss questions and ideas of what we mean when we talk about terms such as ‘religion’, ‘secular’, ‘sacred’ and ‘profane’. Each conference has a theme highlighted on the call for papers that scholars and students from a range of disciplines coalesce around and engage with.
Learn MoreThe IR US conference serves as a scaffolding for emerging and marginalised students and scholars. Early career and independent scholars can present and develop their work with supportive feedback and experiment with how using Implicit Religion as a methodological tool can enhance their research projects.
Learn MoreDeveloped by Edward Bailey, Implicit Religion is a set of axioms with which to observe and analyze how people develop "true / authentic selves," meaningful lives, and undertake decision making when their passion lay in areas commonly called secular rather than the religious.
“Implicit Religion begins with a simple question: would our understanding of the secular and everyday life benefit from asking if it has a religion of its own?”
Francis Stewart, (2017) Punk Rock is my Religion: Straight Edge Punk and ‘Religious’ Identity.
– the aspects or rituals or material artefacts of the wider aspects of the commitment that enables the individual to bring the various aspects of their lives and / or identities into a coherent, meaningful whole.
that to which the person, group or community is committed to the level of being willing to make sacrifices in some regards for it.
with EXTENSIVE EFFECTS – what issues or causes arise from the commitment that the individual or community is willing to repeatedly act upon, even at great cost to themselves?
A global community of scholars
The axioms of Implicit Religion have been used to explore how people act through ideologies, passions, and collective self-identification
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