Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 29 October 2019

Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will two journal call for papers, three events, and two job opportunities.

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Journal Call for Papers

Special Issue “Agnosticism”

Religions

Deadline: 10 October 2020

More information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Agnosticism

Religion and Popular Music

Journal for Religion, Film, and Media (JRFM)

Deadline: 1 March 2020

More information: https://jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/announcement/view/29

Events

Immortality as expressed within minority religions

Inform’s Winter/Spring Seminar

1 February 2020. King’s College London, UK

More information (PDF)

Pahalwan Baba Ramdev: Wrestling with Yoga and Masculinity in India

7 November 2019. SOAS, London, UK

More information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pahalwan-baba-ramdev-wrestling-with-yoga-and-masculinity-in-india-tickets-77467510409

Yogis Have More Fun: The Tibetan Yoga of Bliss and Emptiness

12 November 2019. SOAS, London, UK

More information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yogis-have-more-fun-the-tibetan-yoga-of-bliss-and-emptiness-tickets-78201198891

Jobs

Transnational Experience in Postnational Asia

Sanford H. Taylor Postdoctoral Fellowship

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York, US

Deadline: 6 December 2019

More information (PDF)

Associate Professor in History of Religions

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Trondheim, Norway

Deadline: 12 January 2019

More information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/175978/associate-professor-in-history-of-religions