Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 9 January 2019

Happy New Year and welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find one job, three conference call for papers, and three event opportunities.

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Jobs

Associate Professor in the Study of Religions

University of Bergen, Norway

Deadline: 24 January 2019

More information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/162079/foersteamanuensis-i-religionsvitenskap

Conference Calls for Papers

EASR 2019: Classical Mythologies in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Sources 

25-29 June 2019. Tartu, Estonia.

Extended Deadline: 10 January 2019

More information (PDF)

SSSR 2019 Meeting: Diversifying the Social Scientific Study of Religion: The Next Seventy Years
25-27 October 2018. St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Deadline: 31 March 2019

More information: https://sssreligion.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/

“Religion, Civil Society and Personal (Family) Law Reform in Post-Colonial Nation States: Interrogating Secularity in India and Beyond”

25 June 2019. Leipzig University, Germany

Deadline: 15 February 2019

More information (PDF)

Events

The Yoga of the Amṛtasiddhi with James Mallinson

14th January. SOAS, London, UK

More information (PDF)

Public Lecture: Alevi Kurds and the Transformation of Sacred Space: How ‘Kemeré Duzgı’ became ‘Düzgün Baba Cemevi’

15 January 2019. Bibliotheca Albertina, Leipzig University, Germany

More information (PDF)

Conference on Leadership, Authority and Representation in British Muslim Communities

21 January 2019. Cardiff University, Wales

Deadline for registration: 9 January 2019
More information: http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/islamukcentre/conference-on-leadership-authority-and-representation-in-british-muslim-communities/

Cardiff University 2019 Public Seminar series

Beginning 6 February 2019

More information: http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/islamukcentre/2019-public-seminar-series/