Welcome to this week’s edition of the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! You will find four journal calls for papers, seven events, eight jobs, three conference and series calls for papers, two PhD fellowships, and one book call for essays.
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Journal Call for Papers
Call for Proposals for Topical Issues
Open Theology
Deadline: 31 October 2021
Epistemic contestations in hybrid media environments
Deadline for abstracts:1 October 2021
Popular communication: The international journal of media and culture
More information: https://davidgrobertson.wordpress.com/2021/06/29/call-for-papers-epistemic-contestations-in-hybrid-media-environments/
Power, Bodies, and Regulation Within the Context of Religion and Spirituality
Frontiers’ Research Topics
Deadline for abstracts: 3 September 2021
More information: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/23950/power-bodies-and-regulation-within-the-context-of-religion-and-spirituality#overview
Israel-Diaspora Relations
Special Issue of Journal of Jewish Identities
Deadline for Proposals: 15 December 2021
More information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7848586/cfp-israel-diaspora-relations-special-issue-journal-jewish
Events
Civil Religion and Democracy
10 September 2021, online
More information: https://adi.deakin.edu.au/events/civil-religion-and-democracy
Buddhism & Trauma, Nightly Dialogue Series
20-23 July 2021, online
More information: https://ngakpainternational.secure.retreat.guru/program/jim-hopper-elizabeth-call/
The Australian Mega-Church Hillsong in Brazil: Transnationalism, Celebrity Culture and Cosmopolitism
Seminario de hermenéutica y espiritualidad
Centro de Estudios de Hermenéutica, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
20 July 2021, online
More information: https://twitter.com/crocha2/status/1409687408354881540/photo/1
The 72nd Conference of the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies
4-5 September 2021, online
More information: http://www.jaibs.jp/en/conference
“Secularizing Buddhism,”by Richard Payne with Ronald Purser
19 August 2021, online
More information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/richard-payne-secularizing-buddhism-with-ronald-purser-tickets-159734230383?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
Paradox and prophecy: why the study of Lived Catholicism matters
15-16 November 2021, online
More information: https://livedcatholicism.org/
Religions in Modern Japan
Getting to Know Japan Webinar
13 July 2021, online
More information: https://www.ycaps.org/japan-religion
Jobs
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion
California Lutheran University, US
Deadline: 17 July 2021
More information: https://careers.callutheran.edu/postings/7174
Assistant Professor, Race and Religion
The University of Chicago Divinity School
Deadline: 15 September 2021
More information: https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/350674/assistant-professor-race-and-religion/
Religion Reporter – South/Nashville, TN
The Tennessean and the USA Today Network
More information: https://us60.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePortal/en-US/gannett/Posting/View/40995
Visiting Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies
University of Rochester, US
Deadline: 15 July 2021
More information: https://www.rochester.edu/faculty-recruiting/positions/show/11942
2022-2023 Corcoran Visiting Chair in Christian-Jewish Relations
Boston College, US
Deadline: 1 December 2021
More information: https://bc.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/2/home/requisition/4854?c=bc&source[0]=HigherEdJobs&source[1]=Higheredjobs
Assistant Professor, the Arabic and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies programs
Virginia Commonwealth University, US
Deadline: 21 July 2021
More information: https://www.vcujobs.com/postings/107415
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Catholic Social Teaching
Western University, Canada
Deadline: 15 September 2021
More information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7859620/fulbright-canada-research-chair-catholic-social-teaching
Editorial Assistant
Shambhala Publishing, Boulder, Colorado, US
More information: https://www.shambhala.com/employment
Conference and Series Calls for Papers
Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference
24-27 March 2022. Honolulu, Hawaii and online
Deadline for proposals: 10 August 2021
More information: https://www.asianstudies.org/conference/call-for-proposals/
16th IATS Seminar 2022 – Call for Submissions
3-9 July 2022. Prague, Czech Republic
Deadline: 15 September 2021
More information: http://www.iats.info/2021/04/16th-iats-seminar-2022-call-for-submissions-eng/
Faith & Activism: Call for Contributions
Special online series via ‘Religion in Public’
Contributions accepted on a rolling basis
More information: https://religioninpublic.com/2019/10/22/faith-activism-call-for-contributions/
PhD Fellowships
Strongmen of Asia: Democratic Bosses and how to understand them
Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo, Norway
Deadline: 1 September 2021
More information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/208614/doctoral-research-fellow?fbclid=IwAR3iR48guifJonlaz3XX1TeOy4P0bATlXQkMNkqQAPrnjpKqCEbIm2u9teY
Fellowships in European history, the history of religion, historical theology, or other historical disciplines
The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG)
Deadline: 15 August 2021
More information: https://www.ieg-mainz.de/media/public/PDF-Stipendien/IEG_Fellowship_PhD_2022.pdf
Book Calls for Essays
Religious Futurisms
Edited by Sumeyra Buran Utku and Jim Clarke
Deadline for Abstracts: 1 December 2021
More information: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/06/17/religious-futurisms