Gordon Lynch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3997149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon Lynch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynch |
| SIGNATURE | LYNCH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8961-3310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Where is the Good in the World?: Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy
Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people realize the good in social life, exploring how ethics and values relate to forms of suffering, power and inequality, and, in doing so, demonstrate …
UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970: A Study in Policy Failure
It's often the case, in acknowledgements such as these, that (usually male) researchers express
Sacred
Catholic Child Migration Schemes from the United Kingdom to Australia: Systemic Failures and Religious Legitimation
Between 1938 and 1956, an estimated 1,147 children were sent from the United Kingdom to Australia through child migration initiatives delivered by Catholic organisations. Whilst experiences of child migrants varied, there has been a growing public recognition over the past thirty years of the trauma experienced by many. Although the suffering of child migrants occurred in the context of wider policy failures, this article argues that there was a …
The Church of England Advisory Council of Empire Settlement and Post-War Child Migration to Australia
Between 1947 and 1965, 408 British children were sent to Australia under the auspices of the Church of England Advisory Council of Empire Settlement and its successor bodies. Situating this work in wider policy contexts, this article examines how the council involved itself in this work with support from some senior clergy and laity despite being poorly resourced to do so. Noting the council's failure to maintain standards expected of this work b…
Pathways to the 1946 Curtis Report and the post-war reconstruction of children’s out-of-home care
The publication of the Report of the Care of Children Committee in 1946 was a pivotal moment for the out-of-home care of children in Britain. With its key recommendations implemented in the 1948 Children Act and the creation of bodies such as the Central Training Council in Child Care and the Home Office’s Advisory Council on Child Care, the report also had wider public significance in associating progressive approaches to child-care with the eme…
Saving the child for the sake of the nation: Moral framing and the civic, moral and religious redemption of children
Kenya's Search for Truth and Justice: The Role of Civil Society
Journal Article Kenya's Search for Truth and Justice: The Role of Civil Society Get access Lydiah Kemunto Bosire, Lydiah Kemunto Bosire * * Independent Scholar. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gabrielle Lynch Gabrielle Lynch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 8, Issue 2, Jul…
From Protest to Parties: Party-building and democratization in Africa
From Protest to Parties, now issued in paperback, poses the important but neglected question of why ‘we find strong, cross-ethnic opposition parties in some democratizing countries, while opposition parties tend toward organizational weakness and fragmentation in others?’ (p. 245). In answering this question, LeBas ‘engages with a larger debate about the relationship between protest and political change’ and, more specifically, of whether ‘sustai…
Introduction: Belief as Cultural Performance
Although the concept of belief has become a focus of critical discussion in other disciplines, sociologists of religion have tended to assume that belief is a universal phenomenon, structured around cognitive propositions which can be made explicit in the context of research surveys and interviews The articles in this special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Religion explore belief in the lives of young people in different religious, cultural…
The sociology of the sacred: A conversation with Jeffrey Alexander
Over the past 20 years, Jeffrey C. Alexander has been a leading social theorist and a pioneer of the 'strong program' in cultural sociology, which emphasises the significance of cultural structures of meaning for social life. Following an introductory overview of his work, this article records a public conversation with Alexander about the role and significance of the concept of the sacred in his sociological work. Issues addressed in this conver…
The Sacred in the Modern World: A Cultural Sociological Approach
"It is often claimed that we live in a secular age. But we do not live in a desacralized one. Sacred forms - whether in 'religious' or 'secular' guise - continue to shape social life in the modern world, giving rise to powerful emotions, polarized group identities, and even the very concept of moral society. Analyzing contemporary sacred forms is essential if we are to be able to make sense of the societies we live in and think critically about t…
Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader
General Introduction. Section 1: Religion, spirituality and consumer culture Introduction. Chapter 1: Understanding Glastonbury as a site of consumption (Marion Bowman). Chapter 2: The economies of Charismatic Evangelical worship (Pete Ward). Chapter 3: Mecca cola and Burqinis: Muslim consumption and religious identities (Nabil Echchaibi). Chapter 4: The spirit of living slowly in the LOHAS market-place (Monica M. Emerich). Chapter 5: Burn-a-luja…
Becoming indigenous in the pursuit of justice: The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Endorois
The February 2010 ruling of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Kenyan government's violation of the Endorois people's rights is the Commission's most substantive and radical decision to date, with important implications for international jurisprudence, national politics, and local strategies – as well as potential socio-economic realities and inter-communal relations. The ruling combined a liberal interpretation of the Afr…
Religion, media, and culture: A Reader
The mediatisation of religion debate: An introduction
Within the growing literature on religion and media, a more specific debate has recently developed in relation to the mediatisation of religion. The Danish scholar, Stig Hjarvard, has undertaken leading work in articulating a detailed theory of the mediatisation of religion, arguing that contemporary religion is increasingly mediated through secular, autonomous media institutions and is shaped according to the logics of those media. This special …
What can we learn from the mediatisation of religion debate
The criticisms of Hjarvard's theory of mediatisation presented in the articles of this special issue indicate that it may only be applicable to particular religious, historical, social and political contexts. More specifically, Hjarvard's theory seems most relevant to societies characterised by the prevalence of non-confessional media institutions, declining direct public engagement with religious institutions, the association of religious author…
The performance of politics: Obama's victory and the democratic struggle for power
Jeffrey C. Alexander, New York, Oxford University Press, 2010, xiv+364pp., (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-19-974446-6 Over the past 30 years, Jeffrey C. Alexander has established himself as one of the wor
Can You Hear the Army?”: Exploring Evangelical Discourse in Scottish Youth Prayer Meetings
This article explores how public prayer events can serve as a space for evangelical youth to perform and construct a public discourse related to their personal and corporate faith. Claims are based on a detailed content analysis of 14 youth-led prayer meetings held across Scotland over a two-year period. This study uncovers some dominant themes related to how evangelical youth create and present their religious identity in order to create communi…
We Are All One, We Are All Gods’: Negotiating Spirituality in the Conscious Partying Movement
Research literature has been growing over the past five years which explores the religious significance of electronic dance music cultures. This article adds to this work by offering an analysis of spiritual discourses used within a particular underground dance scene in the UK, the ‘conscious partying’ movement. An ethnographic account is given of a typical dance night within this scene, which demonstrates how these spiritual discourses are embed…
The New Spirituality: An Introduction to Progressive Belief in the Twenty-first Century
Much attention has been given in recent writings about religion to fundamentalism and the 'religious right'. But less attention has been given to their opposite - the emergence of a new generation of progressive religious thinkers and organisations on the 'religious left'. "The New Spirituality" is one of the first books to give a comprehensive and authoritative account of this burgeoning progressive religious movement. It offers a clear and enga…
Between Sacred and Profane: Researching Religion and Popular Culture
Over the past ten years there has been an explosion of interest in how religion and the sacred connect with the media and cultures of everyday life. How are religious communities, identities and rituals being transformed by new media such as the internet? What is the significance of the media when for many people it becomes the primary source of images and of an encounter with religious traditions? Do the media and popular culture themselves take…
The Mainstream Post-Rave Club Scene As a Secondary Institution: A British Perspective
This article focuses on the importance of analysing the mainstream post-rave dance scene in the context of studies of the religious significance of electronic dance cultures. Drawing on their own ethnographic research, as well as other recent comparable studies in Britain, the authors argue that the mainstream post-rave dance scene is a ‘secondary institution’ supporting the new social form of religion identified by Luckmann, which emphasises sel…
The Role of Popular Music in the Construction of Alternative Spiritual Identities and Ideologies
Setting its discussion in the wider context of the decline of institutional religion among young adults, the rise of alternative spiritualities, and the mediatization of religion, the article explores the significance of popular music in the development of alternative spiritual identities and ideologies. A summary is given of leading research conducted in this field by Christopher Partridge and Graham St. John. It is argued that they demonstrate …
The mediatisation of religion debate: An introduction
Within the growing literature on religion and media, a more specific debate has recently developed in relation to the mediatisation of religion. The Danish scholar, Stig Hjarvard, has undertaken leading work in articulating a detailed theory of the mediatisation of religion, arguing that contemporary religion is increasingly mediated through secular, autonomous media institutions and is shaped according to the logics of those media. This special …
Becoming indigenous in the pursuit of justice: The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Endorois
The February 2010 ruling of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Kenyan government's violation of the Endorois people's rights is the Commission's most substantive and radical decision to date, with important implications for international jurisprudence, national politics, and local strategies – as well as potential socio-economic realities and inter-communal relations. The ruling combined a liberal interpretation of the Afr…
The sociology of the sacred: A conversation with Jeffrey Alexander
Over the past 20 years, Jeffrey C. Alexander has been a leading social theorist and a pioneer of the 'strong program' in cultural sociology, which emphasises the significance of cultural structures of meaning for social life. Following an introductory overview of his work, this article records a public conversation with Alexander about the role and significance of the concept of the sacred in his sociological work. Issues addressed in this conver…
The Mainstream Post-Rave Club Scene As a Secondary Institution: A British Perspective
This article focuses on the importance of analysing the mainstream post-rave dance scene in the context of studies of the religious significance of electronic dance cultures. Drawing on their own ethnographic research, as well as other recent comparable studies in Britain, the authors argue that the mainstream post-rave dance scene is a ‘secondary institution’ supporting the new social form of religion identified by Luckmann, which emphasises sel…
The Role of Popular Music in the Construction of Alternative Spiritual Identities and Ideologies
Setting its discussion in the wider context of the decline of institutional religion among young adults, the rise of alternative spiritualities, and the mediatization of religion, the article explores the significance of popular music in the development of alternative spiritual identities and ideologies. A summary is given of leading research conducted in this field by Christopher Partridge and Graham St. John. It is argued that they demonstrate …
Kenya's Search for Truth and Justice: The Role of Civil Society
Journal Article Kenya's Search for Truth and Justice: The Role of Civil Society Get access Lydiah Kemunto Bosire, Lydiah Kemunto Bosire * * Independent Scholar. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gabrielle Lynch Gabrielle Lynch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 8, Issue 2, Jul…
What can we learn from the mediatisation of religion debate
The criticisms of Hjarvard's theory of mediatisation presented in the articles of this special issue indicate that it may only be applicable to particular religious, historical, social and political contexts. More specifically, Hjarvard's theory seems most relevant to societies characterised by the prevalence of non-confessional media institutions, declining direct public engagement with religious institutions, the association of religious author…
Saving the child for the sake of the nation: Moral framing and the civic, moral and religious redemption of children
We Are All One, We Are All Gods’: Negotiating Spirituality in the Conscious Partying Movement
Research literature has been growing over the past five years which explores the religious significance of electronic dance music cultures. This article adds to this work by offering an analysis of spiritual discourses used within a particular underground dance scene in the UK, the ‘conscious partying’ movement. An ethnographic account is given of a typical dance night within this scene, which demonstrates how these spiritual discourses are embed…
Pathways to the 1946 Curtis Report and the post-war reconstruction of children’s out-of-home care
The publication of the Report of the Care of Children Committee in 1946 was a pivotal moment for the out-of-home care of children in Britain. With its key recommendations implemented in the 1948 Children Act and the creation of bodies such as the Central Training Council in Child Care and the Home Office’s Advisory Council on Child Care, the report also had wider public significance in associating progressive approaches to child-care with the eme…
Introduction: Belief as Cultural Performance
Although the concept of belief has become a focus of critical discussion in other disciplines, sociologists of religion have tended to assume that belief is a universal phenomenon, structured around cognitive propositions which can be made explicit in the context of research surveys and interviews The articles in this special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Religion explore belief in the lives of young people in different religious, cultural…
The performance of politics: Obama's victory and the democratic struggle for power
Jeffrey C. Alexander, New York, Oxford University Press, 2010, xiv+364pp., (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-19-974446-6 Over the past 30 years, Jeffrey C. Alexander has established himself as one of the wor
Can You Hear the Army?”: Exploring Evangelical Discourse in Scottish Youth Prayer Meetings
This article explores how public prayer events can serve as a space for evangelical youth to perform and construct a public discourse related to their personal and corporate faith. Claims are based on a detailed content analysis of 14 youth-led prayer meetings held across Scotland over a two-year period. This study uncovers some dominant themes related to how evangelical youth create and present their religious identity in order to create communi…
The Mainstream Post-Rave Club Scene As a Secondary Institution: A British Perspective
This article focuses on the importance of analysing the mainstream post-rave dance scene in the context of studies of the religious significance of electronic dance cultures. Drawing on their own ethnographic research, as well as other recent comparable studies in Britain, the authors argue that the mainstream post-rave dance scene is a ‘secondary institution’ supporting the new social form of religion identified by Luckmann, which emphasises sel…
The Role of Popular Music in the Construction of Alternative Spiritual Identities and Ideologies
Setting its discussion in the wider context of the decline of institutional religion among young adults, the rise of alternative spiritualities, and the mediatization of religion, the article explores the significance of popular music in the development of alternative spiritual identities and ideologies. A summary is given of leading research conducted in this field by Christopher Partridge and Graham St. John. It is argued that they demonstrate …
The New Spirituality: An Introduction to Progressive Belief in the Twenty-first Century
Much attention has been given in recent writings about religion to fundamentalism and the 'religious right'. But less attention has been given to their opposite - the emergence of a new generation of progressive religious thinkers and organisations on the 'religious left'. "The New Spirituality" is one of the first books to give a comprehensive and authoritative account of this burgeoning progressive religious movement. It offers a clear and enga…
Between Sacred and Profane: Researching Religion and Popular Culture
Over the past ten years there has been an explosion of interest in how religion and the sacred connect with the media and cultures of everyday life. How are religious communities, identities and rituals being transformed by new media such as the internet? What is the significance of the media when for many people it becomes the primary source of images and of an encounter with religious traditions? Do the media and popular culture themselves take…
Can You Hear the Army?”: Exploring Evangelical Discourse in Scottish Youth Prayer Meetings
This article explores how public prayer events can serve as a space for evangelical youth to perform and construct a public discourse related to their personal and corporate faith. Claims are based on a detailed content analysis of 14 youth-led prayer meetings held across Scotland over a two-year period. This study uncovers some dominant themes related to how evangelical youth create and present their religious identity in order to create communi…
We Are All One, We Are All Gods’: Negotiating Spirituality in the Conscious Partying Movement
Research literature has been growing over the past five years which explores the religious significance of electronic dance music cultures. This article adds to this work by offering an analysis of spiritual discourses used within a particular underground dance scene in the UK, the ‘conscious partying’ movement. An ethnographic account is given of a typical dance night within this scene, which demonstrates how these spiritual discourses are embed…
Religion, media, and culture: A Reader
The mediatisation of religion debate: An introduction
Within the growing literature on religion and media, a more specific debate has recently developed in relation to the mediatisation of religion. The Danish scholar, Stig Hjarvard, has undertaken leading work in articulating a detailed theory of the mediatisation of religion, arguing that contemporary religion is increasingly mediated through secular, autonomous media institutions and is shaped according to the logics of those media. This special …
What can we learn from the mediatisation of religion debate
The criticisms of Hjarvard's theory of mediatisation presented in the articles of this special issue indicate that it may only be applicable to particular religious, historical, social and political contexts. More specifically, Hjarvard's theory seems most relevant to societies characterised by the prevalence of non-confessional media institutions, declining direct public engagement with religious institutions, the association of religious author…
The performance of politics: Obama's victory and the democratic struggle for power
Jeffrey C. Alexander, New York, Oxford University Press, 2010, xiv+364pp., (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-19-974446-6 Over the past 30 years, Jeffrey C. Alexander has established himself as one of the wor
The Sacred in the Modern World: A Cultural Sociological Approach
"It is often claimed that we live in a secular age. But we do not live in a desacralized one. Sacred forms - whether in 'religious' or 'secular' guise - continue to shape social life in the modern world, giving rise to powerful emotions, polarized group identities, and even the very concept of moral society. Analyzing contemporary sacred forms is essential if we are to be able to make sense of the societies we live in and think critically about t…
Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader
General Introduction. Section 1: Religion, spirituality and consumer culture Introduction. Chapter 1: Understanding Glastonbury as a site of consumption (Marion Bowman). Chapter 2: The economies of Charismatic Evangelical worship (Pete Ward). Chapter 3: Mecca cola and Burqinis: Muslim consumption and religious identities (Nabil Echchaibi). Chapter 4: The spirit of living slowly in the LOHAS market-place (Monica M. Emerich). Chapter 5: Burn-a-luja…
Becoming indigenous in the pursuit of justice: The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Endorois
The February 2010 ruling of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Kenyan government's violation of the Endorois people's rights is the Commission's most substantive and radical decision to date, with important implications for international jurisprudence, national politics, and local strategies – as well as potential socio-economic realities and inter-communal relations. The ruling combined a liberal interpretation of the Afr…
Introduction: Belief as Cultural Performance
Although the concept of belief has become a focus of critical discussion in other disciplines, sociologists of religion have tended to assume that belief is a universal phenomenon, structured around cognitive propositions which can be made explicit in the context of research surveys and interviews The articles in this special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Religion explore belief in the lives of young people in different religious, cultural…
The sociology of the sacred: A conversation with Jeffrey Alexander
Over the past 20 years, Jeffrey C. Alexander has been a leading social theorist and a pioneer of the 'strong program' in cultural sociology, which emphasises the significance of cultural structures of meaning for social life. Following an introductory overview of his work, this article records a public conversation with Alexander about the role and significance of the concept of the sacred in his sociological work. Issues addressed in this conver…
Saving the child for the sake of the nation: Moral framing and the civic, moral and religious redemption of children
Kenya's Search for Truth and Justice: The Role of Civil Society
Journal Article Kenya's Search for Truth and Justice: The Role of Civil Society Get access Lydiah Kemunto Bosire, Lydiah Kemunto Bosire * * Independent Scholar. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gabrielle Lynch Gabrielle Lynch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 8, Issue 2, Jul…
From Protest to Parties: Party-building and democratization in Africa
From Protest to Parties, now issued in paperback, poses the important but neglected question of why ‘we find strong, cross-ethnic opposition parties in some democratizing countries, while opposition parties tend toward organizational weakness and fragmentation in others?’ (p. 245). In answering this question, LeBas ‘engages with a larger debate about the relationship between protest and political change’ and, more specifically, of whether ‘sustai…
Pathways to the 1946 Curtis Report and the post-war reconstruction of children’s out-of-home care
The publication of the Report of the Care of Children Committee in 1946 was a pivotal moment for the out-of-home care of children in Britain. With its key recommendations implemented in the 1948 Children Act and the creation of bodies such as the Central Training Council in Child Care and the Home Office’s Advisory Council on Child Care, the report also had wider public significance in associating progressive approaches to child-care with the eme…
Sacred
Catholic Child Migration Schemes from the United Kingdom to Australia: Systemic Failures and Religious Legitimation
Between 1938 and 1956, an estimated 1,147 children were sent from the United Kingdom to Australia through child migration initiatives delivered by Catholic organisations. Whilst experiences of child migrants varied, there has been a growing public recognition over the past thirty years of the trauma experienced by many. Although the suffering of child migrants occurred in the context of wider policy failures, this article argues that there was a …
The Church of England Advisory Council of Empire Settlement and Post-War Child Migration to Australia
Between 1947 and 1965, 408 British children were sent to Australia under the auspices of the Church of England Advisory Council of Empire Settlement and its successor bodies. Situating this work in wider policy contexts, this article examines how the council involved itself in this work with support from some senior clergy and laity despite being poorly resourced to do so. Noting the council's failure to maintain standards expected of this work b…
UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970: A Study in Policy Failure
It's often the case, in acknowledgements such as these, that (usually male) researchers express
Where is the Good in the World?: Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy
Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people realize the good in social life, exploring how ethics and values relate to forms of suffering, power and inequality, and, in doing so, demonstrate …
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