{"id":4659,"date":"2018-08-17T10:03:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T09:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/upgrade-understandingunbelief\/?page_id=4659"},"modified":"2020-09-07T11:16:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T10:16:19","slug":"unbelief-in-life-story-interviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/public-engagement-projects\/unbelief-in-life-story-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbelief in Life Story Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/public engagement projects\/\" rel=\"up\">Public Engagement Projects<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/about\/our-partners\/4603-nls-annual-review-2010-v5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4608\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4608 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/08\/NLS-in-partnership-with-BL-300x104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/08\/NLS-in-partnership-with-BL-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/08\/NLS-in-partnership-with-BL-768x267.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/08\/NLS-in-partnership-with-BL-1024x355.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2018\/08\/NLS-in-partnership-with-BL.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Project Lead: Paul Merchant<br \/>\nDates: 1 June-30 November 2018<br \/>\nAward: \u00a330,648<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This public engagement project is an innovative collaboration between the Understanding Unbelief programme and National Life Stories at the British Library. It applies Understanding Unbelief&#8217;s view of &#8216;unbelief&#8217; as comprising diverse &#8220;beliefs, attitudes, experiences and practices&#8221; to listen to large public collections of life story interviews in an entirely new way. In particular, it explores three substantial collections of oral history interviews at the British Library- Millennium Memory Bank, City Lives and Lives in the Water Industry- to discover how individuals who claim no religious belief:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>explain and attribute meaning to particular experiences;<\/li>\n<li>understand significant life events and &#8216;turning points&#8217;;<\/li>\n<li>talk about the deaths of others, and their own mortality;<\/li>\n<li>discuss ideas such as luck, fate, consequence and justice;<\/li>\n<li>conceive of the origin and nature of different phenomena that might in other contexts be called religious, spiritual or supernatural; and,<\/li>\n<li>describe their non-belief (as for example <em>lack <\/em>of belief or <em>possession <\/em>of unbelief).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The collections at the British Library are substantial- the Millennium Memory Bank alone has 5429 archived recordings- and include unusually long and detailed interviews with individuals in all parts of the UK, and from diverse social, educational, ethnic and religious backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>The project seeks to liberate from these archives a curated collection of audio extracts in order to a) promote public engagement with the material on forms of &#8216;unbelief&#8217; and b) inspire further public exploration of these and other oral history collections.<\/p>\n<p>The project with produce:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a detailed<a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/public-engagement-projects\/unbelief-in-life-story-interviews\/religious-unbelief-in-oral-history-collections-an-audio-essay\/\"> audio essay<\/a>\u00a0for the Understanding Unbelief website featuring clips from the life story material;<\/li>\n<li>a research toolkit\u00a0accessible to a broad range of users on the British Library&#8217;s new online catalogue of audio collections, launching in 2018-19 as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/projects\/save-our-sounds\">Unlocking Our Sound Heritage<\/a> project. The toolkit will include an illustrated &#8216;user journey&#8217;\u00a0sharing the innovative search and retrieval strategies used\u00a0in the Unbelief in life story interviews project\u00a0to support and inspire future research; and<\/li>\n<li>a number of blogs and podcasts on the Understanding Unbelief, British Library and other websites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow the project&#8217;s blogs <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/public-engagement-projects\/unbelief-in-life-story-interviews\/unbelief-in-life-story-interviews-blogs\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read <strong><span style=\"color: #0b0813\">Religious unbelief in oral history collections \u2013 an audio essay <\/span><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/public-engagement-projects\/unbelief-in-life-story-interviews\/religious-unbelief-in-oral-history-collections-an-audio-essay\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about National Life Stories <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/projects\/national-life-stories\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Engagement Projects Project Lead: Paul Merchant Dates: 1 June-30 November 2018 Award: \u00a330,648 &nbsp; This public engagement project is an innovative collaboration between the Understanding Unbelief programme and National Life Stories at the British Library. It applies Understanding Unbelief&#8217;s view of &#8216;unbelief&#8217; as comprising diverse &#8220;beliefs, attitudes, experiences and practices&#8221; to listen to large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"parent":4643,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4659","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4659"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6532,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4659\/revisions\/6532"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}