Meditation on Friction
The barrier of the Temple Garment both shapes and impedes the outward creation of the identity of the Mormon woman.
Space for Race: Decoding Issues of Race, Belonging and Multi- Culturalism in Canada and Beyond
Many Canadians see themselves as a nation that champions human rights and diversity, alongside and entwined with ideals of secularism and religious neutrality. This often leads to disputes around what constitutes “diversity.”
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 28 February 2019
Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find four conference calls for papers, one conference, four events, and one job opportunities.
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Measuring and Categorizing Young Adult Spirituality
Previous generations have not been influenced to change and adapt as quickly as Millennials and Generation Z
Religion as a Tactic of Governance
Naomi Goldenberg argues that ‘religion’, as a separate sphere from governance, has been projected onto the past for strategic purposes. How does viewing religions as “restive once-and-future governments” help us understand the functioning of this category in contemporary discourse?
Religious and Socio-Cultural Boundary Work in the Swiss Handshake Affair
In Switzerland, immigrants are in general expected to ‘culturally and socially integrate’, while ethno-cultural differences are, at the same time, perceived as enriching and ethno-cultural identities and thus not totally expected to be abandoned.
Religious Education Down-Under
The institutional accommodation (and implied endorsement) of Bible-in-Schools engenders an unwarranted complacency towards monitoring of groups and materials by school boards and parents alike.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 28 November 2018
Welcome to the latest edition of The Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find five conference call for papers, three doctoral studentships, one job, two events and one journal call for papers opportunities.
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On the Global Guru Circuit: From India to the West and Back Again
As transnational gurus have increasingly mobilized globally in multidirectional patterns and occupy significant virtual spaces of connectivity, the ideal that religious traditions are dependent on geographical fixity has become increasingly destabilized.
Public School Islamic Religious Education as Safe Space for Identity Development and Bottom-Up Negotiation of Citizenship
Muslim students experience the Islamic Religious Education classroom as an in-between space where they can ask questions that they feel are too delicate to be discussed in religious communities or even with their parents but need to be discussed with an adult who is an insider of their tradition but also understand their everyday life at school.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 1 November 2018
Welcome to the latest edition of The Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find two job, one journal call for papers, three conference call for papers, and one event opportunities.
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 26 September 2018
Welcome to the latest edition of The Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find three conference calls for papers, four lectures and seminars, one call for proposals, one funding, one workshop, one call for papers, and one job opportunities.
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 25 July 2018
Welcome to the latest edition of The Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find one publication, three conference calls for papers, one PhD jobs, and two symposium and seminars.
Be sure to check out the newest edition of Implicit Religion! The journal is published in collaboration with the RSP and is co-edited by one of our amazing editors, David Roberston.
Religious Studies Opportunity Digest – 20 June 2018
Welcome to the latest edition of The Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find two workshops, one prize, four conference calls for papers, and three job opportunities.
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 22 May 2018
Welcome to the latest edition of The Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find a conference call for papers, details of a summer school, a workshop, a conference, and a symposium, as well as four journal calls for papers.
As we approach the end of the RSP year, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that we are always looking to increase our pool of interviewers and respondents, or to receive suggestions for future podcasts,…