Dear subscriber,
This week we have a plethora of proceedings, an excess of events, a flowering bouquet of functions on delicious display for your delight and, naturally, your riveting research.
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Calls for papers
Journal: Aries
Special Issue: Esotericism and the Cognitive Science of Religion
Deadline: June 15, 2015 (abstract); February 1, 2016 (completed manuscripts)
Religion as Creativity: An interdisciplinary Conference
October 2–4, 2015
Miami University, OH (!), USA
Deadline: July 1, 2015
Death and Identity in Scotland From the Medieval To the Modern: Beliefs, Attitudes and Practices
January 29–31, 2016
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Deadline: October 16, 2015
Events
Conference: The Jewish Life of Jesus (Toledoth Yeshu) in Context: Jewish-Christian Polemics in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern History
June 29–July 1, 2015
University of Bern, Switzerland
Conference: Grounding the Sacred through Literature and the Arts
July 23–26, 2015
Australian Catholic University, Australia
Middle Eastern Christians in Diaspora: Past and Present, Continuity and Change
May 26–27, 2015
St Andrews, Scotland
Old Religion and New Spirituality: Continuity and changes in the background of secularization
May 26–29, 2015
University of Tartu, Estonia
Spirit and Sentiment: Affective Trajectories of Religious Being in Urban Africa
May 28–30, 2015
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
May 28–30, 2015
Ottawa, Canada