Today marks a special occasion in the life of The Religious Studies Project – we’re giving our first ‘talk’. As part of Innovative Learning Week at the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, we’re presenting a session where … Continue reading
The following post was written by Erika Salomon, one of our contributors, who blogs at A Theory of Mind. Erika is a graduate student studying social psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has an MA in Cognition … Continue reading
The Insider/Outsider problem is one of the most perennial problems in the academic study of religion. It may sound boring at first, but think about it for just a minute and you will realise that this distinction, relating to where … Continue reading
An Evaluation of Harvey’s Approach to Animism and the Tylorian Legacy By Liam Sutherland, University of Edinburgh Published by the Religious Studies Project, on 17 February 2012 in response to the Religious Studies Project Interview with Graham Harvey on Animism … Continue reading
We decided when we launched the Religious Studies Project that we wanted to have a reasonable amount of content available on the site before we started a major publicity push. Now that we have published our fifth podcast – David’s … Continue reading
Birmingham, England: 2-5 July 2012 Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2012 Organised by the Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. We invite all with an interest in the study of travel writing to the eleventh Borders and … Continue reading
SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION NOVEMBER 9 – 11, 2012 Hyatt Regency, PHOENIX, AZ “Religion, Race, and National Identity” For much of human history, religion has been tightly connected to peoplehood and to territory – to blood and … Continue reading
We’re trying something new… at least for this post. We have been sending out a lot of conference notifications and we don’t want to be filling up inboxes with what are likely to be duplicates. Therefore, we have put five … Continue reading
Managing your bibliography is one of the most essential skills you can develop as an academic. For some, the system will be a matter of organised chaos; a personalised mess of paper, online files, post-it notes which makes sense to … Continue reading
Animism is often taken as referring to worldviews in which spirits are to be found not only in humans, but potentially in animals, in plants, in mountains and even natural forces like the wind. It was of central importance in … Continue reading