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Calls for papers
New book series: Gender & Islam, Gerlach Press
Calls for: Manuscripts
Deadline: N/A
New journal: Open Theology
De Gruyter Open
Calls for: Articles
IAHR 2015: “Methods”
Erfurt, Germany
Chairs: Steven Engler and Michael Stausberg
Call for: Papers
Deadline: June 1, 2014
25th IPRA General Conference: Uniting for Peace: Building Sustainable Peace through Universal Values
August 10–14, 2014
Sakarya Üniversitersi, Istanbul, Turkey
Calls for: Paper, poster and panel proposals
Deadline: April 30, 2014
Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion
Editors: Suha Shakkour and Sariya Cheruvallil
Call for: Abstracts, expressions of interest
Deadline: March 31, 2014
ESA Sociology of Religion Research Network 34th Midterm Conference
September 3–4, 2014
Calls for: Abstracts
Deadline: April 18, 2014
Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural, special issue: “Uncanny Animations”
Guest editor: Elina Gertsman
Calls for: Abstracts and complete essays
Deadlines: April 15, 2014 (abstracts), June 15, 2014 (complete essays)
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting
October 31–November 2, 2014
Calls for: Session and paper proposals
Deadline: March 31, 2014
Conferences and events
Book launch: Steven J. Sutcliffe and Ingvild Sælid Gilhus (editors), New Age Spirituality: Rethinking Religion
March 26, 2014, 2:00-5:00 PM
University of Edinburgh
Folklore, Thomas Hardy, and Rural Writing: A joint conference of the Folklore Society and the Thomas Hardy Society
April 11–13, 2014
Corn Exchange, Dorchester, Dorset
The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World
April 12–13, 2014
Brown University
Summer school
Nationalism, Religion and Violence in Europe
June 23–July 4, 2014
Charles University, Prague
Deadline: April 25, 2014
“Matter(s) of relations: current analyses of Pacific rituals”
April 7–8, 2014
Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille
Jobs
Fully funded PhD position: “Religion in China”
University of Groningen
Deadline: May 2, 2014
Fully funded PhD scholarships
Interuniversity Center for Social Science: University of Utrecht, University of Groningen, University of Nijmegen
Deadline: April 22, 2014
Grants
The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Student Travel Awards
Deadline: March 31, 2014
New publications
Religion and Society, Volume 4: Ends and Beginnings
Publisher: Berghahn Journals
Kocku von Stuckrad, The Scientification of Religion: An Historical Study of Discursive Change, 1800-2000
Publisher: De Gruyter
Type/genre: Monograph
Language: English