The conference will explore how ‘unorthodox’ readings of sacred texts inform salvation experience  how life transformations outside of religious contexts might be considered spiritual  how ideas of this-worldly salvation are politicised  how ideas of salvation are simultaneously secularised and infused with new power  what alternative salvations can be discovered within Christianity and how might they be practised? In particular  we are seeking to explore the ways that alternative religious  spiritual and secular understandings of the notion of salvation already shape  and have the potential to shape  how people live and act in Christian and post-Christian contexts