Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 28 February 2019

Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find four conference calls for papers, one conference, four events, and one job opportunities.

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Conference Call for Papers

DVRW meeting: English-German panel

3-6 September 2019. Hannover, Germany

Deadline: 28 February 2019

More information (PDF)

“Religion as a Changing Category of Muslim Practice”

24 May 2019. University of Oxford, UK

Deadline: 28 February 2019

More information: https://criticalreligion.org/2019/02/22/call-for-papers-religion-as-a-changing-category-of-muslim-practice/

33rd Biannual Conference of the German Association for the Study of Religion 

Extended deadline for panel proposal: 15 March 2019

More information: https://www.dvrw2019.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/dvrw2019/Dateien/PDF/open_panel_sessions_final.pdf

SSSR 2019: Diversifying the Social Scientific Study of Religion: The Next Seventy Years

25-27 October 2019. St. Louis, Missouri

Deadline: 31 March 2019

More information: https://sssreligion.org/annual-meeting/information/

Conferences

Women & Gender in the Bible and the Ancient World Conference 2019

29 March 2019. University of Glasgow

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Events

Samādhi Burial and the Continued Presence of the Realized Yogin 

Dr. Mark J. McLaughlin

6 March 2019. SOAS, London, UK

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ISSA Seminars on the Japanese Enthronement Ceremonies

5 March 2019. Tokyo, Japan (Japanese)

30 March 2019. Tokyo, Japan (English)

6 April 2019. Kyoto, Japan (English)

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“How Minority Religions React to the Law” Seminar

1 June 2019. King’s College London, UK

More information coming soon

The Folly of Secularism

“Dialogues on the Theopolitics of the Nation-State: Israel in a wider context”

1 April 2019. Oxford University, UK

More information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-folly-of-secularism-dialogues-on-the-theopolitics-of-the-nation-state-israel-in-a-wider-context-tickets-57506667992?utm_term=eventurl_text

Jobs

Professorship in the Religious Ethnology of the Contemporary Western World

Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE). Paris, France.

Deadline: 14 March 2019

More information on position (PDF)

More information on application process (PDF)