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Contemporary Religion in Historical Perspective

Locating the Ancestors

20 April 2005
Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

Programme

Welcome and intro (Graham Harvey)

Martin D. Stringer, “Chatting to Gran at Her Grave”

Dennis Klass, “Bereaved parents self-help groups

Audrey Linkman, “Taken from Life: Photographing the Dead”

Helen Waterhouse, “Praying for the dead: continuity and reinterpretation in Soka Gakkai International”

Leon Grandy, “From these Honoured Dead: Worshiping martial ancestors, ANZAC Day and War Memorials - new perspectives on New Zealand's religiosity”

Helen Cornish, “Cunning ancestors: competing authorities”

Jenny Blain, “Indigenising Heathen ancestry”

Dan Weinbren, “Fraternity beyond the grave in 19th century Britain”

Garry Tregidga: ‘“Last of my Antecedents”: A Community Study of Kinship Memory and Identity Continuity'

Ian Draper, “Genealogy as Spirituality”

Plenary discussion

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