Welcome to another edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! In this edition, you will find four journal call for papers, one call for essays, five conference calls for papers, one online event, two PhD positions, one grant, and one graduate studies opportunities.
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Journal Call for Papers
“Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World II”
Open Theology
Deadline: 31 December 2020
‘Religion, Law and Politics‘
Religions Special Issues
Deadline: 18 December 2020
More information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/rlp
Special Issue on “Historizing Islamophobia”
Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam
Deadline: February 2021
More information: https://contemporarystudyofislam.org/index.php/jcsi/announcement
Emic Categories and New Paths / Case Studies in the Scholarly Use of Indigenous Concepts
Thematic issue of Religions
Deadline for proposals: 1 February 2021
More information: https://stevenengler.ca/cfp/
Call for Essays
Religion and Horror Comics
Religion and Comics series, published by Claremont Press
Deadline 1 December 2020
More information: https://popularcultureandtheology.com/2020/09/12/call-for-papers-religion-and-horror-comics/?fbclid=IwAR1orAmTplM_kAlneMbOp9Wp0_uXIA9tGsORiw54Wf-wVMZPNWfS-Ijk07s
Conference Calls for Papers
45th Annual Conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion (AASR)
11-12 December 2020 via Zoom
Deadline: 31 October 2020
More information: https://www.aasr.org.au/2020-conference
36th ISSR/SISR ‘Religion in Global/Local Perspectives: Diffusion, Migration, Transformation’ Conference
12-15 July 2021. Taipei, Taiwan
Call for papers: 1 October to 15 November 2020
More information: https://www.sisr-issr.org/en/conferences/conference-2021
3rd ANU Religion Conference – Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy
8-10 December 2021. Canberra, Australia
Proposal deadline: 21 May 2021
More information: https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/religion-and-migration-culture-and-policy-0
British Muslims and Covid-19: Impacts, Experiences and Responses
A free MBRN online symposium
8 December 2020
Deadline for abstracts: 30th October 2020
More information: http://www.mbrn.org.uk/call-for-papers-british-muslims-and-covid-19-impacts-experiences-and-responses/
Critical Research on Religion
11 -14 June 2021. Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland
Deadline for proposals: 15 January 2021
The Intercultural Education in an Age of Information and Disinformation Conference
June 27-30, 2021. The Kibbutzim College of Education (KCE) & The MOFET Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel
Deadline: 25 October 2020
More information: https://iaie.smkb.ac.il/call-for-proposals/
Online Events
Religion and Politics Public Seminar Series with the University of Chester
Once a month beginning 14 October 2020
PhD Positions
1 PhD fellowship with the project Total Devotion – Passions and Plots in Radical Religion in the Ancient World
Funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2020
More information: https://www.sdu.dk/en/service/ledige_stillinger/1103953
PhD Studentships in the Arts and Humanities
Open University, UK
Deadline: 12 January 2021
More information: http://www.open.ac.uk/about/employment/vacancies/phd-studentships-arts-and-humanities-open-universityahrc-studentships
Grants
Call for Proposals: Course Development Grants in Science and Theology
University of St Andrews
Deadline: 31 October 2020
More information: https://set.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/course-development-grant/
Graduate Studies
Funded PhD and MPhil Positions
Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Australia
Deadline: 18 October 2020
More information: https://www.acu.edu.au/research/our-research-institutes/institute-for-religion-and-critical-inquiry/study-with-us