Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
07 May 2008 repeat 11 May
HEARING VOICES The phenomenon of hearing voices might not be as unusual as we think, and many people even live quite happily with the voices they hear. Sometimes the voices have helpful advice, or words of encouragement to offer. But where do the voices come from? Might they be the sound of society itself? Dr Julie Kirby, senior Lecturer at Edge Hill University talks about her research study of over sixty people who live with voice hearing.
PAGANISM Laurie Taylor is joined by Dr Graham Harvey, Reader in Religious Studies at The Open University and the author of paper entitled Recent developments in Paganism andProfessor Wendy Griffin, co-founder of the Pagan Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion, to discuss the nature of contemporary paganism and to find out if it can ever become more accepted as a religion in the future.
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Dr Julie Kirby Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Psychological Sciences at Edge Hill University
Dr Graham Harvey Reader in Religious Studies, The Open University
Recent developments in Paganism paper by Graham Harvey given at the Cesnur (Centre for Study of New Religions) Conference 2008
Professor Wendy Griffin Chair of the Women’s Studies Department and Professor Emerita at California State University Long Beach (CSULB). She is co-founder of the Pagan Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion.
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