Hello and welcome to this week’s Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! You will find four events, three fellowships and summer programs, one conference call for papers, and one job.
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Events
Beyond the State: Re-thinking Race and Religion
10 June 2021, online
More information: https://www.sciencespo.fr/agenda/ceri/fr/event/Beyond+the+State%3A+Re-thinking+Race+and+Religion?event=2666
Reason and Revelation in Buddhism
12 June 2021, online
Goodman Lectures (monthly through April 2022)
More information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/6060/discussions/7791229/lecture-series-khyentse-foundation-presents-goodman-lectures
Public Scholarship: Best Practices and Potential Pitfalls
American Academy of Religion
23 June 2021, online
More information: https://www.aarweb.org/AARMBR/Events-and-Networking-/Events-and-Opportunities-/2021-/Public_Scholarship_Best_Practices_and_Potential_Pitfalls.aspx
Spiritual Abuse: Coercive Control in Religions
3-4 September 2021, online
More information: https://www1.chester.ac.uk/trs/research/conference/spiritual-abuse-coercive-control-in-religions
Fellowships and Summer Programs
Funded writing fellowship with Commonweal
Sacred Writes
More information: https://www.sacred-writes.org/commonweal
Two funded writing fellowships with The Christian Century
Sacred Writes
More information: https://www.sacred-writes.org/christian-century
Islam in the Contemporary World
CICW Graduate Student Institute
2-4 August 2021
Deadline: 25 June 2021
More information: https://www.contemporaryislam.org/graduate-student-institute.html
Conference Calls for Papers
When Buddha come to Ultima Thule
6th International Conference Buddhism and Nordland
19-20 November 2021. Sweden
Deadline for proposals: 15 September 2021
More information: http://www.budcon.com/bn/index.php?title=Buddhism_%26_Nordland
Jobs
Visiting Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Fairfield University, CT, US
Deadline: 18 June 2021