Becoming Citizens of "Postsecular" Britain: Religion in Primary School Life

TY - CONF

T1 - Becoming Citizens of "Postsecular" Britain

T2 - BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group Annual Conference 2023

AU - Strhan, Anna Harriet Block

AU - Malone, Joanna

AU - Hemming, Peter

AU - Neal, Sarah

PY - 2023/7/5

Y1 - 2023/7/5

N2 - This paper presents emerging findings from a three-year study investigating the role of religion in the work that schools do to foster citizenship and national identity, how pupils and parents understand and experience these processes, and what this means for children’s sense of belonging in wider society. Our presentation draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in primary schools in four diverse religious/nonreligious ‘microclimates’ in Northwest England, Southern England, Scotland and Wales to consider how regional contingencies contribute to shaping lived religion and citizenship practices, and how this intersects with aspects of class, ethnicity, and race in shaping belonging and in/exclusion.

AB - This paper presents emerging findings from a three-year study investigating the role of religion in the work that schools do to foster citizenship and national identity, how pupils and parents understand and experience these processes, and what this means for children’s sense of belonging in wider society. Our presentation draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in primary schools in four diverse religious/nonreligious ‘microclimates’ in Northwest England, Southern England, Scotland and Wales to consider how regional contingencies contribute to shaping lived religion and citizenship practices, and how this intersects with aspects of class, ethnicity, and race in shaping belonging and in/exclusion.

M3 - Paper

Y2 - 5 July 2023 through 7 July 2023

ER -