Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 17 November 2021

Welcome to a brief edition of the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! This week, you will one conference call for paper. A gracious thank you to all of you that have has generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons (currently at 40!) to support all of our […]

Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 11 June 2019

Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find three event, one course, two journal call for papers, and one conference call for papers opportunities.
Thank you so much to everyone who has signed up to support the RSP thus far through our Patreon–and PayPal options. We are aiming for 100 patrons (currently 38) to fund planned developments over the coming year. See our donations page for details of how you can sign up for a regular subscription, leave a one-off donation, advertise with us, or use our Amazon links.

Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 5 June 2019

Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find one conference call for presentations and two journal calls for papers opportunities.

Thank you so much to everyone who has signed up to support the RSP thus far through our Patreon–and PayPal options. We are aiming for 100 patrons (currently 37) to fund planned developments over the coming year. See our donations page for details of how you can sign up for a regular subscription, leave a one-off donation, advertise with us, or use our Amazon links.

Just Published!: Implicit Religion Volume 21

Published in conjunction with the Religious Studies Project, we are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 21, issues 1 & 2, of Implicit Religion. As a subscriber to the RSP you can receive a 30% discount on subscriptions to Implicit Religion by entering the code DISCOUNT30 on the journal’s subscription page here. To access […]

The first meeting of the RSP Trustees

This afternoon we had the first meeting of the Trustees of the Religious Studies Project Association (that’s the name of the Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation that produces the RSP). Besides Chris Cotter and myself (David Robertson), the Trustees are Carole Cusack (Sydney), Russell McCutcheon (Alabama) and Dominic Corrywright (Oxford Brooks), so getting them all in the same virtual room was quite a feat.

Religion and NGOs: Archive

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, there has been a remarkable surge of interest among both academics and policy makers in the effects that religion has on international aid and development. Within this broad field, the work of ‘religious NGOs’ or ‘Faith-Based Organisations’ (FBOs) has garnered considerable attention.

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 26 April 2016

We are pleased to bring you this week’s opportunities digest and would like to express our gratitude to everyone who has submitted calls for papers, event notifications, job vacancies, etc. On that note, we would also like to encourage you to continue to do so (and invite those who remain hesitant to begin)!
It is super easy to have a Religious Studies call for papers, exciting event, or alluring job vacancy appear in future Opportunities Digests!

Poster Competition

Are you a budding graphic designer or artist? Do you listen to the RSP? Want to see your work adorn the walls of RS departments around the globe? Then the Religious Studies Project wants YOU! This summer, the RSP is running our very first Poster Competition. What does “critical, accessible, and cutting-edge scholarship in the […]

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 24 November 2015

Calls for papers Book series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place More information Conference: International Society for Historians of Atheism, Secularism, and Humanism June 4–6, 2016 London, UK More information Conference: Dialogue among religions as strategy and means for peace July 12–15, 2016 Havana, Cuba More information Conference: Worship of the Stars: Celestial Themes in Observance […]

First transcriptions of RSP Podcasts now available

The RSP will be returning to your ears on Monday with a jam-packed season of excellent podcasts from the BASR Annual Conference, ASR Annual Meeting, SISR/ISSR Conference, the XXI IAHR World Congress, and more. In anticipation of this, we have some exciting news for you… (those of you who follow us on social media might already have an idea about what it is…)
Over the past year, – our wonderful archive manager, …

The RSP At Your Conference

Planning a conference or other academic event? Here’s how The Religious Studies Project can offer support and promotional opportunities: Pre-event promotion on RSP social media feeds reaching 2200 people a day Promotion in our weekly RSP Opportunities Digest sent to 500 subscribers Record and publish a special podcast featuring the conference topic that will be […]

Book Review – Food, Sex and Strangers (Graham Harvey)

May 2014 Book Reviews Podcast – see the podcast page for author information. In Food, Sex and Strangers Graham Harvey attempts to approach the study of religion from ‘elsewhere’, that is from angles appropriate to specific traditions rather than simply Western Protestantism. This, Harvey asserts will allow scholars to study religions as they are actually […]

Book Review – The Invention of God in Indigenous Societies (James Cox)

May 2014 Book Reviews Podcast – see the podcast page for author information. The Invention of God in Indigenous Societies is the latest text by Professor James Cox. In the book Cox aims to use a handful of case studies from his fieldwork with indigenous groups in Zimbabwe, Alaska, New Zealand, and Australia to unpack […]

Feedback for the RSP: A Request for Testimonials

Over the past two-and-a-half years, the RSP Team have become increasingly aware that the podcasts and other resources that we disseminate are being used in a variety of interesting, innovative and unexpected ways in the teaching of Religious Studies, both by ‘students’ and their ‘teachers’, and at all levels of education.