Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will three conference calls for papers, two jobs and fellowships, one workshop call for applications, one journal call for papers, three bulletins, and two courses and events opportunities.
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Conference Calls for Papers
Values, Worldviews and Religions in Education: Changing Realities in the City
8-11 June 2020. Stockholm, Sweden
Deadline: 15 December 2019
More information (PDF)“Religion and the urban, natural and virtual environments”
Bi-Annual Conference of the ESA RN34- Sociology of Religion
26-28 August 2020. Groningen, Netherlands
Deadline for proposals: 21 January 2020
More information (PDF)Tantra, Shamanism, and Magic: Experiences, Practices, and Practitioners at the “Margins” of the Indic World
XXII conference of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR)
23-29 August 2020. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Deadline: 5 December 2019
More information (PDF)Jobs and Fellowships
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
“Beyond Secularization: Religion, Science & Technology in Public Life”
Arizona State University
Deadline: 31 December 2019
More information: https://csrc.asu.edu/content/postdoctoral-research-scholar
Visiting Research Fellows: Catholicism in the Global South
Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University
Deadline: 1 January 2020
More information: https://las.depaul.edu/centers-and-institutes/center-for-world-catholicism-cultural-theology/fellowships/Pages/general-information.aspx
Workshop Call for Applications
“Public Scholarship of Religion in an Age of Hypermediation”’
6-10 May 2020. Boulder, Colorado, USA
Deadline: 31 January 2020
More information: https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/events/spring-2020-workshop-call-applications
Journal Call for Papers
“Catholicism and medical practices in the 20th and 21st centuries: socio-historical approaches”
Emulations
Deadline for proposals (English or French): 15 January 2020
More information (PDF – French)
Bulletins
Faith in Europe Briefings
More information (PDF)Law & Religion UK
More information (PDF)Counting Religion in Numbers
More information: http://www.brin.ac.uk/counting-religion-in-britain-september-2019/
Courses and Events
Why Religion Matters: Religious Literacy, Culture and Diversity
The Open University, UK
More information: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/why-religion-matters
Jainism: an Historical Religious Journey through Art
11 November 2019. Gregorian Centre for Interreligious Studies, Rome, Italy
More information: https://www.unigre.it/en/events-and-communication/events/events-calendar/jainism-an-historical-religious-journey-through-art/