Welcome to the RSP opportunities digest!
This week’s digest is packed! Make sure you take the time to scroll through all of it!
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Calls for papers
Inaugural Global Congress on Sports and Christianity
August 24–28, 2015
York St John University, UK
Deadline: N/A
The Power of the Word International Conference IV
June 17–20, 2015
Pontifical University of St Anselm, Italy
Deadline (extended): November 30, 2014
Beyond ‘Gays in the Church’: New Approaches to the Histories of Christianity and Same-Sex Desire
September 25–26, 2015
London, UK
Deadline: January 1, 2015
IV International scientific and practical conference: Religion and/or Everyday Life
April 16–18, 2015
Minsk, Belarus
Deadline: January 15, 2015
More information (pdf, English, Russian)
European Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy
July 6–8, 2015
Brighton, UK
Deadline: March 1, 2015
Sociology of Religion: Foundations and Futures
July 7–9, 2015
Kingston University London, UK
Deadline: December 1, 2014
More information (scroll down a bit)
James Legge Conference: Missions to China and the Origins of Sinology
11-13 June 2015
University of Edinburgh, UK
Deadline: March 31, 2015
7th Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Religion and Spirituality
May 3–4, 2015
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Deadline: November 30, 2014
ISSR panel: Bodily Dimension, Experience, and Ethnographic Research
July 2–5, 2015
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Deadline: December 15, 2014
ISSR panel: Rethinking Spirituality through Gender and Youth
Repenser la spiritualité à travers le genre et la jeunesse
July 2–5, 2015
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Deadline: December 15, 2014
Conferences and events
Inform seminar: Innovation, violence and paralysis: how do minority religions cope with uncertainty?
February 7, 2015
London School of Economics, UK
Banal, benign or pernicious? The relationship between religion and national identity from the perspective of religious minorities in Greece
November 25, 2014
European Institute, UK
Networks
Research School on Peace and Conflict
University of Oslo, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Peace Research Institute Oslo
Deadline: December 15, 2014
Grants, awards, funding
Doctoral scholarship competition: Unitarianism
The Hibbert Trust
Funding for postgraduate teachers training
Department for Education, UK
Jobs
(Up to) 18 fully funded PhD scholarships in Theology and Religious Studies
University of Leeds, UK
Deadline: February 2, 2015
Fellowships at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe”
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Deadline: March 15, 2015
AHRC Doctoral Studentships
University of Aberdeen, UK
Deadline: January 12, 2015
PhD Research Fellowships: Theology of Mission and Religious Studies: “Cracks and In-Betweens”
The MHS School of MIssion and Theology, Norway
Deadline: January 15, 2015
Studentships: Image and Representation in Religion in England and Wales, 1700 to 1900
Oxford Brookes University, UK
Deadline: November 24, 2014