Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 26 August 2020

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! In this edition, you will find one chapter call for proposals, two jobs, one journal call for papers, and two post-doctoral positions opportunities.

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Call for Chapter Proposals

New Methods in the Study of Islam

Brill’s Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion Series

Deadline: 30 November 2020

More information (PDF)

Jobs

University Lectureship in the Religious Traditions of Japan

The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR)

Deadline: 15 September 2020 

More information: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2020/q2/20-218-7401-university-lectureship-in-the-religious-traditions-of-japan

Associate Director of Educational Design

Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

Deadline: 1 October 2020

More information: https://www.wabash.edu/employment/home.cfm?job_id=751

Journal Call for Papers

Religious Experience V: (Ir)Rationality and Religiosity During Pandemic

Open Theology

Deadline: 31 March 2021

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Post-Doctoral Positions

The National Humanities Post-Doctoral Residential Fellowship

Deadline: 8 October 2020

More information: https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/become-a-fellow/?fbclid=IwAR1xmZofWtoEGl9PdCg1gGiq5r4NMUeljRgjkD4SxWghPkCxVE6ZDB5aA9k

Research Fellow in “Orthodox Christian Material Ecology and the Sociopolitics of Religion”

University College London

Deadline: 20 September 2020

More information: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?amNvZGU9MTg3MTI0MCZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT05NjUmb3duZXI9NTA0MTE3OCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZicmFuZF9pZD0wJnZhY2Zpcm0udmFjdGl0bGU9dGhlIE1hdGVyaWFsIEVjb2xvZ3kgYW5kIFNvY2lvcG9saXRpY3MgJnBvc3RpbmdfY29kZT0yMjQ=&fbclid=IwAR0FwN9WqQU-JXOmnDhXtrTNCvbzPoQ-_1prEN9B7JvwegnYTrkh4ljkzyo&jcode=1871240&vt_template=965&owner=5041178&ownertype=fair&brand_id=0&vacfirm.vactitle=the%20Material%20Ecology%20and%20Sociopolitics%20&posting_code=224

Conference Calls for Papers

Religious Transformation and Gender Contestations in/and the study of religion, gender and sexuality

10- 12 March 2021. Utrecht University, Netherlands

Deadline for proposals: 15 October 2020

More information: https://conversion.sites.uu.nl/religious-transformation-and-gender/conference_description/