Contemporary Society and Contemporary Religion
The Christ Church Thinktank has been in existence for over 10 years. It draws on speakers from all the churches in the Lewes area. Our speakers provide their services without charge, so our meetings are free and open to all. Whether you go to church or not, join us whenever the topic interests you.
Our meetings are usually held in the church and are also available via Zoom. The format is 45 minutes talk and 45 minutes discussion and our average attendance is about 30. All meetings are from 7.30 pm to 9 pm.
If you would like to attend any of our meetings by Zoom, please email the Church Secretary for further details.
Meeting on Wednesday 21 August at 7.30 pm
Professor Norman Vance will be speaking on
"Individualism in 21st Century Society "
Norman Vance is Emeritus Professor of English and Intellectual History at the University of Sussex and a Visiting Professor at Ulster University. He is still reading and writing about literature and society in England and Ireland and contributed a discussion of 'Religion and Literature' to the Oxford Handbook of Religion in Modern Ireland published earlier this year. He became interested in individualism while preparing a biography of a strongly individualist Ulster dramatist. His talk will briefly survey, for someone who is not a professional historian, some of the sources of individualism and its collectivist and communitarian opposites, such as religion and socialism, and will ask what it has to say to us today.