Welcome to this week’s edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! In this edition, you will find three conference call for papers, two PhD positions, seven journal call for papers, and one event opportunities.
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Conference Call for Papers
Festivals Research and Covid 19: Virtual Community, Activism, Spirituality
15 September 2020. Online through the Open University
Deadline: 31 July 2020
More information: http://fass.open.ac.uk/events/festivals-research-and-covid-19-virtual-community-activism-spirituality
3rd ANU Religion Conference – Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy
8-10 December 2020. Canberra, Australia
Deadline for Proposals: 21 June 2020
More information: https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/religion-and-migration-culture-and-policy-0
2021 Special Focus: Modeling Traditions from the Margins: Non-Canonical Writings in Religious Systems
Eleventh International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society
3–4 June 2021. University of Córdoba, Spain
Deadline: 3 November 2020
More information: https://religioninsociety.com/2021-conference/call-for-papers?utm_source=N21A_danV&utm_medium=N21A_danV&utm_campaign=N21A_danV#block-2
PhD Positions
Total Devotion – Passions and Plots in Radical Religion in the Ancient World
Funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark
Deadline: 1 October 2020
More information: https://www.sdu.dk/en/service/ledige_stillinger/1103953
PhD position in sociology/gender studies
Institute for the Social Sciences of Religions (ISSR), Switzerland
Deadline: 30 June 2020
Journal Call for Papers
Religion and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture
Deadline for Proposals: 15 June 2020
More information: https://issrnc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Coronavirus-Special-CFP_JSRNC.pdf
Jews and Muslims in Europe: Between Discourse and Experience
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
Deadline for Abstracts: 30 June 2020
Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Gender and Sexuality
Deadline: 30 June 2020
More information: https://mcusercontent.com/66ad6971e58faa2afa4a0216c/files/811a3334-8ca3-4a30-ad38-a18d9f20bf2f/290120_1644_Poster_PRINT.pdf
The Effects of Pandemics on Religious History
Deadline: 1 July 2020
More information: https://shoutout.wix.com/so/42N4DTvxM#/main
Embracing religion as counter-conduct: Ethics and “political spirituality” among western youth
Deadline: 15 July 2020
More information: https://isa-rc22.org/call-for-papers-embracing-religion-as-counter-conduct-ethics-and-political-spirituality-among-western-youth/
Religion, Law and Politics
Religions Special Issue
Deadline: 18 December 2020
More information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/rlp
Historizing Islamophobia
Journal for the Contemporary Study of Islam Special Issue
Deadline: 20 February 2021
More information: https://contemporarystudyofislam.org/index.php/jcsi/announcement
Events
Centre of Islamic Studies and Civilisation’s Islamic Studies Research Colloquium
26 June 2020 at 3pm-5pm via Zoom
RSVP by 22 June 2020
More information: https://www.isra.org.au/cisac-islamic-studies-research-colloquium