Welcome to the latest edition of The Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find two conference calls for papers, one event, one call for proposals, and two job opportunities.
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New books from Equinox Publishing
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Setting Out on the Great Way
Essays on Early Mahāyāna Buddhism
Edited by Paul Harrison, Stanford University
https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/early-mahayana/
Conference Call for Papers
The Donner Institute Symposium: Approaching esotericism and mysticism: Cultural influences
5–7 June 2019. Åbo/Turku, Finland
Deadline: 31 December 2018
ISSRNC 2019 Conference: “Religion/Water/Climate: Changing Cultures and Landscapes.”
13-16 June 2019. University College Cork, Ireland
Deadline for Proposals: 14 December 2018
More information: https://www.issrnc.org/conferences/2019-conference/
3rd Annual Religious Studies Graduate Conference: Sex and Religion
15-16 March 2019. UNC Charlotte, USA
Deadline: 7 January 2019
Events
Inform Seminar: Health and Healing in Minority Religions
24 November 2018. King’s College, London, UK
Call for Proposals
Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality Annual Mid-Year Conference: Relational Spirituality
April 5-6, 2019. Bowling Green, Ohio, USA
Deadline: 14 January 2019
More information: https://www.apadivisions.org/division-36/news-events/midyear-conference/index.aspx
Jobs
Doctoral Researchers
“Experiments with Experience: Experimenting with Religions and Spiritual Practice as Experimentation”
University of Bern
Deadline: 15 November 2018
Secularism and Nonreligion Editor
Deadline: 12 November 2018