Francis Stewart
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francis Stewart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francis |
| FAMILY NAME | Stewart |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bishop Grosseteste University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2679-119X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Faith in science, implicit religion and antipathy to religions
Bailey’s notion of implicit religion is invoked to explore the conflict between science and religion in the adolescent mind. This conflict is reconceptualised in terms of the theologies of religion. On this account, belief in science (as implicit religion) when adopted as a fundamentalist or exclusive position excludes the validity of other religious belief-systems (in this case explicit religions). This thesis is tested by exploring the effect o…
Drawing on the concept of implicit religion and psychological type theory
Conceptualising cathedrals as welcoming spaces that soften the boundaries between common ground and sacred space, the present paper tests the thesis that a rich account of participants’ experience of a cathedral Sunday Choral Eucharist can be facilitated by intentionally engaging each of the four psychological functions identified by psychological type theory: sensing, intuition, feeling, and thinking (SIFT). Of the 139 participants who completed…
Implicit religion, Anglican cathedrals, and spiritual wellbeing
Rooted in the field of cathedral studies, this paper draws into dialogue three bodies of knowledge: Edward Bailey’s notion of implicit religion that, among other things, highlights the continuing traction of the Christian tradition and Christian practice within secular societies; David Walker’s notion of the multiple ways through which in secular societies people may relate to the Christian tradition as embodied within the Anglican Church and Joh…
Exploring the responses of non-churchgoers to a cathedral pre-Christmas son et lumiere
Two conceptual strands of research within the field of cathedral studies have theorised the capacity of Anglican cathedrals to engage more successfully than parish churches with the wider non-churchgoing community. One strand has explored mobilising cathedral metaphors, and the other strand has explored the notion of implicit religion. Both strands illuminate the power of events and installations to soften the boundaries between common ground and…
The inclusivity of Anglican cathedrals and the coronation of King Charles III
Judith Muskett's analysis of metaphors employed to characterise Anglican cathedrals draws attention to the inclusivity of these locations within secular and religiously diverse societies.They are positioned as places where sacred space and common ground collide and coalesce.Drawing on Edward Bailey's discussion of implicit religion and civic religion, alongside explicit religion, the present study reports on an analysis of the 43 websites of Angl…
Anglican cathedrals and implicit religion
High profile (and controversial) events and installations, like the Helter-Skelter in Norwich and the Crazy Golf Bridges in Rochester, have drawn attention to innovation and public engagement within Anglican cathedrals. The present study contextualised these innovations both empirically and conceptually. The empirical framework draws on cathedral websites to chronicle the wide and diverse range of events and installations hosted by Anglican cathe…
Implicit religion
This article introduces a Special Section of Journal of Beliefs and Values focusing on new directions in the study of Implicit Religion. It sets the scene for the Special Section in two steps. Step one focuses the origin of the concept of Implicit Religion as a set of analytic tools for examining the salience of commitments for the lives of individuals in contemporary societies. The tools comprise three key components styled: commitments, integra…
Implicit religion
This article closes a Special Section of Journal of Beliefs and Values focusing on new directions in the study of Implicit Religion. It points to a new way forward for Implicit Religion working within the framework for religion and worldviews proposed by the Commission on Religious Education in 2018
Changing voices
Implicit Religion, developed as a set of analytical tools by Edward Bailey, was, in many regards, ahead of its time. Drawing upon the history of Bailey’s Implicit Religion, and its developments since his death, this article will argue that Implicit Religion has something vital to offer to the field of religious studies as the discourse around religion and the study of it continues to shift and reform. Utilising a number of case studies from popul…
Putting the Material Back Into the Higher Education Classroom
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. (Cameron, 1963, 4)Higher education has, historically, been strongly focused on the word, the written text
Blue Suede Shoes to Doc Marten Boots
This paper will focus on two seemingly disparate music based case studies-Elvis and punk rock-and their associated “religions.” An argument will be made that Elvis and “his religion” could be viewed as what is often represented as a traditional “Catholic” tradition with pilgrimages, flowers, candles, prayers and miracles (including resurrection). Ethics and charity work are undertaken as emulation or invocation of Elvis rather than a morally driv…
The Orange Order
Implicit Religion has long been utilised within academia, and religious studies in particular, as an analytical tool with which to examine and critique commonly held conceptions and iterations of what “religion” is or could be. However there is application potentiality outside of academia for Implicit Religion, and this paper seeks to utilise the power of such an approach to expose the oversimplified use of traditional religious categories in reg…
Beyond Krishnacore
Considering and engaging with spiritual identity and practices, particularly within today’s modern Western societies, often seen as having a religious/secular divide, has rightly been at the fore of much academic consideration of late. For there are a number of newly emerging forms of spirituality (both in terms of practice and of identity) that are in many ways sidestepping that paradigm and creating a new approach to religion, the secular, and …
Conflict and Growth in Africa
Conflict and Growth in Africa
Beyond Krishnacore
Considering and engaging with spiritual identity and practices, particularly within today’s modern Western societies, often seen as having a religious/secular divide, has rightly been at the fore of much academic consideration of late. For there are a number of newly emerging forms of spirituality (both in terms of practice and of identity) that are in many ways sidestepping that paradigm and creating a new approach to religion, the secular, and …
The Orange Order
Implicit Religion has long been utilised within academia, and religious studies in particular, as an analytical tool with which to examine and critique commonly held conceptions and iterations of what “religion” is or could be. However there is application potentiality outside of academia for Implicit Religion, and this paper seeks to utilise the power of such an approach to expose the oversimplified use of traditional religious categories in reg…
Blue Suede Shoes to Doc Marten Boots
This paper will focus on two seemingly disparate music based case studies-Elvis and punk rock-and their associated “religions.” An argument will be made that Elvis and “his religion” could be viewed as what is often represented as a traditional “Catholic” tradition with pilgrimages, flowers, candles, prayers and miracles (including resurrection). Ethics and charity work are undertaken as emulation or invocation of Elvis rather than a morally driv…
Putting the Material Back Into the Higher Education Classroom
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. (Cameron, 1963, 4)Higher education has, historically, been strongly focused on the word, the written text
Anglican cathedrals and implicit religion
High profile (and controversial) events and installations, like the Helter-Skelter in Norwich and the Crazy Golf Bridges in Rochester, have drawn attention to innovation and public engagement within Anglican cathedrals. The present study contextualised these innovations both empirically and conceptually. The empirical framework draws on cathedral websites to chronicle the wide and diverse range of events and installations hosted by Anglican cathe…
Implicit religion
This article introduces a Special Section of Journal of Beliefs and Values focusing on new directions in the study of Implicit Religion. It sets the scene for the Special Section in two steps. Step one focuses the origin of the concept of Implicit Religion as a set of analytic tools for examining the salience of commitments for the lives of individuals in contemporary societies. The tools comprise three key components styled: commitments, integra…
Implicit religion
This article closes a Special Section of Journal of Beliefs and Values focusing on new directions in the study of Implicit Religion. It points to a new way forward for Implicit Religion working within the framework for religion and worldviews proposed by the Commission on Religious Education in 2018
Changing voices
Implicit Religion, developed as a set of analytical tools by Edward Bailey, was, in many regards, ahead of its time. Drawing upon the history of Bailey’s Implicit Religion, and its developments since his death, this article will argue that Implicit Religion has something vital to offer to the field of religious studies as the discourse around religion and the study of it continues to shift and reform. Utilising a number of case studies from popul…
The inclusivity of Anglican cathedrals and the coronation of King Charles III
Judith Muskett's analysis of metaphors employed to characterise Anglican cathedrals draws attention to the inclusivity of these locations within secular and religiously diverse societies.They are positioned as places where sacred space and common ground collide and coalesce.Drawing on Edward Bailey's discussion of implicit religion and civic religion, alongside explicit religion, the present study reports on an analysis of the 43 websites of Angl…
Implicit religion, Anglican cathedrals, and spiritual wellbeing
Rooted in the field of cathedral studies, this paper draws into dialogue three bodies of knowledge: Edward Bailey’s notion of implicit religion that, among other things, highlights the continuing traction of the Christian tradition and Christian practice within secular societies; David Walker’s notion of the multiple ways through which in secular societies people may relate to the Christian tradition as embodied within the Anglican Church and Joh…
Exploring the responses of non-churchgoers to a cathedral pre-Christmas son et lumiere
Two conceptual strands of research within the field of cathedral studies have theorised the capacity of Anglican cathedrals to engage more successfully than parish churches with the wider non-churchgoing community. One strand has explored mobilising cathedral metaphors, and the other strand has explored the notion of implicit religion. Both strands illuminate the power of events and installations to soften the boundaries between common ground and…
Faith in science, implicit religion and antipathy to religions
Bailey’s notion of implicit religion is invoked to explore the conflict between science and religion in the adolescent mind. This conflict is reconceptualised in terms of the theologies of religion. On this account, belief in science (as implicit religion) when adopted as a fundamentalist or exclusive position excludes the validity of other religious belief-systems (in this case explicit religions). This thesis is tested by exploring the effect o…
Drawing on the concept of implicit religion and psychological type theory
Conceptualising cathedrals as welcoming spaces that soften the boundaries between common ground and sacred space, the present paper tests the thesis that a rich account of participants’ experience of a cathedral Sunday Choral Eucharist can be facilitated by intentionally engaging each of the four psychological functions identified by psychological type theory: sensing, intuition, feeling, and thinking (SIFT). Of the 139 participants who completed…
Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Media, Religion, Digital Communication (4 works)