Welcome to this edition of the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find three journal calls for papers, four conference calls for papers, two workshops, one event, four jobs, two PhD positions.
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Journal Calls for Papers
Musings: SJM Occasional Papers
Sydney Jewish Museum
Deadline: 1 November 2021
More information: https://sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au/musings-sjm-occasional-papers/
Rethinking Media, Religion and Secularities
Special Issue for Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture
Deadline: 15 September 2021
More information: https://mcusercontent.com/66ad6971e58faa2afa4a0216c/files/3fb22eff-296d-545d-a5df-5282788b51a9/CFP_for_ISMRC_issue_of_RMDC_for_2023_final.pdf
“Between the Opium of the People and the Quest for Salvation: Approaches to Lived Religion in Latin America”
Special Issue of Revista de Estudios Sociales
Deadline: 13 February 2022
More information: https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/pb-assets/res/Call-For-Papers/Religiosidades/Call_for_papers_Religiosidad_ENGLISH-1628631626497.pdf
Conference Calls for Papers
Religion, Politics and Uncertainty: Shifting Boundaries
ISA RC-22
11-14 Nov 2021, hybrid event
Abstract deadline: 1 September 2021
More information: https://www.isarc-22vilnius.com/
“Hope”
46th Annual Conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion
9-10 December 2021
Abstract deadline: 31 Oct 2021
More information: https://www.aasr.org.au/2021-online-conference
‘Aotearoa Spirit’,
New Zealand Association for the Study of Religion Conference
Victoria University of Wellington
29-30 November 2021
Abstract deadline: 3 September 2021
More information: https://vuw.eventsair.com/nzasr2021registrations/nzasr2021registrationpage/Site/Register
Religion in the North American West
The Williams P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
29 September – 2 October 2022 in Taos, New Mexico and 20-23 April 2023 in Indianapolis
Deadline: 1 November 2021
More information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b17hoWVbVpDrZIkHmPM0BNNhGs-oDIiN3V3QEm_41fM/edit
Workshops
National Graduate Student Workshop: Representing Belief
7-8 December 2021 (online)
Application deadline: 30 Sep 2021
More information: https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/national-graduate-student-workshop-representing-belief-0
Fifth Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
George Mason University
9 December 2021, Online.
Deadline for applications: October 2021
More information: https://themaydan.com/2021/08/2021bookreviewcolloquium/
Events
8th International Symposium on Humanistic Buddhism
6-8 November 2021. Tan Tein Institute, Australia
More information: https://hbsymposium.fgsihb.org/
Jobs
Director for research, study and innovation: Religious studies
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Deadline: 10 September 2021
Assistant Professor in Religious Studies and Histories of Christianity
Gonzaga University, US
Deadline: 4 October 2021
More information: https://twitter.com/annmarie_cano/status/1432742351860994054?s=20
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Northwestern University, US
Deadline: 24 September 2021
More information: https://sociology.northwestern.edu/people/job-opportunities.html
Research Associate and Visiting Faculty of Women’s Studies in Religion
Harvard Divinity School, US
Deadline 15 October 2021
More information: https://wsrp.hds.harvard.edu/apply
PhD Positions
2022 Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellowship Program on ‘Mobilities’
Australian National University
Deadline: 30 September 2021
More information: https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/visiting-fellowships-program
Scholarship on Biblical and Early Christian Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and Religion and Theology
The Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry (IRCI), Australian Catholic University
Deadline: 17 October 2021
More information: https://www.acu.edu.au/research/our-research-institutes/institute-for-religion-and-critical-inquiry/study-with-us