Welcome to the latest edition of The Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find three conference calls for papers, four lectures and seminars, one call for proposals, one funding, one workshop, one call for papers, and one job opportunities.
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First two books in the NAASR Working Papers series published:
Method Today
Redescribing Approaches to the Study of Religion
Edited by Brad Stoddard, McDaniel College, Maryland
https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/method-today/
Religion in Theory and Practice
Demystifying the Field for Burgeoning Academics
Russell McCutcheon, University of Alabama
https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/religion-theory/
Conference Call for Papers
The Fifth Biennial Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives Conference
30 July – 2 August 2019. Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, UK
Deadline: 14 December 2018
2019 CESNUR Conference Re-Enchanting the World: Spiritualties and Religions of the Third Millennium
5-7 September 2019. Torino, Italy
Deadline: 10 April 2019
BSA SocRel Chair’s Response Day: Doing Diversity: ‘Decolonising’ the Social Scientific Study of Religion
21 November 2018. Imperial Wharf, London
Deadline: 12 October 2018
Lectures and Seminars
Public Keynote – José Casanova
Early Modern Jesuit Intercultural Encounters and the Globalization of Secularities
4 October 2018. Leipzig, Germany.
More information: http://www.multiple-secularities.de/events/event/public-keynote-lecture/
Consilience in the Study of Religion. Pushing the Discipline forward.
13 December 2018. Aarhus University, Denmark.
Inform Seminar: Health and Healing in Minority Religions
24 November 2018
More details to follow
Whence the Post-secular? A Critical Look at the Field
4 October 2018. Central European University, Hungary
More information: https://religion.ceu.edu/events/2018-10-04/whence-post-secular-critical-look-field
Call for Proposals
2019 EASR Conference – “Religion – continuations and disruptions”
25 – 29 June 2019. Tartu, Estonia
Deadline: 31 October 2018
More information: https://easr2019.org/
Funding
Global Religion Research Initiative
The Center for the Study of Religion and Society in the Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame
Deadline: 15 October 2018
More information: https://grri.nd.edu/
Workshops
Re/presenting Islam on Campus: Implications for Higher Education
30 October 2018. SHRE, London, UK
More information: https://www.srhe.ac.uk/events/details.asp?eid=381
Call for Papers
Chapter Submissions – Religion Urbanization and Moral Economies of Development in Africa
Deadline: 20 November 2018
Jobs
Advanced Assistant/Associate Professor of American Religions
UNC Greensboro
Deadline: 2 November 2018
More information: https://spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/11775