The Essential and Complex Relationship of Religion and Media
The use of new digital media may sometimes be clumsy, not well understood, and subject to failure at times, writes Robin Harragin Hussey, but it is the current and future manifestation of the way many religions and religious people want to share and make themselves known.
The Sacrality of the Secular and Philosophy of Religion
In this week’s podcast, we speak with Bradley Onishi about the ways in which philosophy of religion has thought “with” religion rather than for or against religion. “It’s possible,” he says, “to hold an enchanted secularity” if we think about religions themselves as tools for questioning our basic assumptions about the world.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 8 January 2020
Welcome back to the first 2020 edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find eight conference call for papers, two journal call for papers, four PhD fellowships and scholarships, and one job opportunities. Thank you so much to everyone who has signed up to support the RSP thus far through […]
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 18 December 2019
Welcome to the latest edition of The Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week is jam-packed – you will find four journal call for papers, six conference call for papers, one funding, three PhD scholarships and fellowships, three courses and workshops and one event opportunities. For the next two weeks the digest will be taking […]
Religion as a Species of Human Activity
From Jonathan Z. Smith we learned that “religion is not its own genus of human activity, but a species of it,” writes Willi Braun in this response to Andie Alexander’s interview with Aaaron Hughes at the “Thinking With Jonathan Z. Smith” Conference in Trondheim earlier in 2019.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 19 November 2019
Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will one award, one event, three journal calls for papers, three jobs and fellowships, and six conference calls for papers opportunities.
Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will one award, one event, three journal calls for papers, three jobs and fellowships, and six conference calls for papers opportunities.
Doctors and Stigmatics in the 19th and 20th centuries
In this week’s podcast with Gabor Klaniczay we learn about cases of stigmata during the 19th and 20th century in Europe, where medical discourses clashed with as well as supported religious discourses about the authenticity and meaning of famous stigmata cases like Italian Padre Pio.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 5 November 2019
Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will three conference calls for papers, two jobs and fellowships, one workshop call for applications, one journal call for papers, three bulletins, and two courses and events opportunities.
Thank you so much to everyone who has signed up to support the RSP thus far through our Patreon–and PayPal options. We are aiming for 100 patrons (currently 38!) to fund planned developments over the coming year. See our donations page for details of how you can sign up for a regular subscription, leave a one-off donation, advertise with us, or use our Amazon links.
EASR 2019 Publishing Panel
This panel, recorded at the EASR conference 2019 at the University of Tartu, is intended for PhD students and early career scholars who want to learn more about the publishing world.
The secularization of discourse in contemporary Latin American neoconservatism
In this week’s podcast, Professor Jerry Espinoza Rivera explains how Latin American conservatism became neoconservatism. Though Latin America is diverse, conservatism has been a widespread in the region shaping not only the political power plays of religious institutions but the people’s daily experience of the world. Recently, however, neoconservatism has managed to develop a language of its own that blends science and philosophy with historical analysis of the contemporary world political landscape to become an significant religio-cultural force.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 16 October 2019
Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! We have a packed digest for you this week, you will find three conferences, five events, seven conference calls for papers, one journal call for papers, and three job opportunities.
Thank you so much to everyone who has signed up to support the RSP thus far through our Patreon–and PayPal options. We are aiming for 100 patrons (currently 39!) to fund planned developments over the coming year. See our donations page for details of how you can sign up for a regular subscription, leave a one-off donation, advertise with us, or use our Amazon links.
Alexander Rocklin
Alexander Rocklin is Assistant Professor of the Study of Religion at Otterbein University. His work examines the politics of the category religion in the interactive making of Hinduism, Islam, and Afro-Atlantic religions in the colonial Caribbean. His first book, The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad, was released from the […]
When Religion Is Not Religion: Inside Religious Studies’ Fight for Religious Literacy in the Public Sphere
As I listened to her interview about the book and its ramifications on the Religious Studies Project, I not only appreciated her balanced and thorough approach to this topic, but found myself wanting to focus on three points that she touched on in the talk: 1) the ways in which “religion” is defined in the public sphere; 2) whether or not we should listen to “fringe” Islamophobes and their rhetoric on religion; and 3) thinking about “when Christianity is not a religion.”
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 18 July 2019
Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find two scholarships and prizes, one electronic journal, two jobs, and one conference call for papers opportunities.
Thank you so much to everyone who has signed up to support the RSP thus far through our Patreon–and PayPal options. We are aiming for 100 patrons (currently 39) to fund planned developments over the coming year. See our donations page for details of how you can sign up for a regular subscription, leave a one-off donation, advertise with us, or use our Amazon links.
Ideal Types, Semantic Anarchy, and the Study of Atheism (etc.)
By Christopher R. Cotter, in response to an interview with Chris Silver on “Atheism, New Religious Movements, and Cultural Tension”. Listening to Chris Silver’s recent podcast on Atheism, New Religious Movements, and Cultural Tension was a thoroughly pleasant experience. I enjoyed hearing a colleague who I first met in 2011, and who quickly came on board the […]