On January 25th and 26th we organized a workshop on "Sociologies of Disorder" together with Robert Schäfer (Fribourgh, Schwitzerland). We are thus continuing our work after having organized an ad hoc group at the 39th DGS Congress. Of particular interest to us were discussions on how "disorderly" living conditions can be stabilized instead of striving [...]
The collective review "Religious actors, ideas and interests in the welfare state", written together with Marc Breuer (Paderborn, Germany), was published last year (2018) in the Sociological Review 41 (4): 606-620. In the first part, it concentrates on recent books which refer to the relevance of religious ideas, values and interests in the welfare state [...]
Eventually, the prestudy to our examination of british and irish foodbanks was published this month! Titled „Religion in Foodbanks in the United Kingdom.“, we analyse, among other things, a leaflet of a food donation facility which we visited. The Text was published in the co-edited book by Annette Schnabel, Melanie Reddig and Heidemarie Winkel herausgegebenen [...]
For our last survey, we drove to Ireland a second time. So far we had been mainly to Dublin and its surrounding area, so we were quite curious about what we could learn from interviews and discussions in another part of the country. We travelled to a city in the west of Ireland which, for [...]
In July 2018, we were in Toronto (Canada), at the ISA 2018 Congress. With a total of three lectures, we had prepared quite a lot for this conference which functions as meeting space for the globally organized sociology community. Fortunately, the time slots for our presentations were distributed over the entire week, so that we [...]
Apart from a few conferences that we attended in the summer of 2018, we collected more data during two fieldtrips. Firstly, we travelled to a city near the coast in South England (S-Town). Secondly, we visited a town in the west of Ireland (W-Town). In this entry, we would like to share our impressions of [...]
Within the scope of our research project, we have organized and attended various workshops with other colleagues. These meetings have always encouraged exchange and led us to new ideas. For the months of May and June, we thought about a different format. In collaboration with the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies 'Multiple Secularities' in Leipzig, [...]
After an intense phase of writing in spring 2018, the season of conferences began for us in April. We used this chance and attended two international conferences during which we presented our latest works, including our recent paper on the different approaches to welfare state principles in food banks in South Wales and Ireland. First [...]
Reviewing our data, we used the last half year for writing up results. The first presentable outcome of this process is an article in which we dare a first comparison of modes of welfare in Wales and Ireland. The key elements for this comparison are interviews and observations that we gathered in both countries in [...]
Together with Marc Breuer (Katholische Hochschule Nordrhein-Westfalen) Kornelia Sammet will host and edit a special issue of the 'Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik (ZRGP)' with the title 'Religious Actors and Organisations as Providers of Social Welfare'. The Issue is aimed to be published in November 2019. In preparation of the editing process, there will [...]
