Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 1 March 2016
Calls for papers Freedom of/for/from/within Religion: Differing DImensions of a Common Right? September 8–11, 2016 Oxford, UK Deadline: March 31, 2016 More information Public Religions and Their Secrets, Secret Religions and Their Publics October 27–28, 2016 University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Deadline: April 1, 2016 More information: Conference, Master Class CHAOS-symposium: Religion og materialitet April […]
SPSP 2016 Report: The state of religion in social and personality psychology
This past January, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology had its biggest turn out to date for its 17th Annual Convention in San Diego, California. Despite religion, as a broad category of research, all to often being missing in action in the psychological sciences, researchers embracing the study of religion were hard to miss throughout SPSP 2016. Conference report for The Religious Studies Project by Adam Baimel, University of British Columbia.
Report: 2015 Joint Conferences of the New Zealand and Australian Associations for the Study of Religion
The biennial conference of the New Zealand Association for the Study of Religions (NZASR) and the annual conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions (AASR) were held together in Queenstown, New Zealand from December 8-10 2015. Interdisciplinary perspectives and theoretical approaches across the humanities and social sciences were evident in the wide-range of papers presented. Islam, and Asian religions more generally, were the most consistent objects of focus, perhaps unsurprising given Australasia’s proximity to Asia and recent increased media attention to the Islamic State.
Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 11 January 2016
Calls for papers Conference: Alternative and Religious Healing in the Modern World September 22–24, 2016 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Deadline: February 1, 2016 More information Conference: American Catholic Historical Association 2017 January, 2017 Denver, CO, USA Deadline: April 15, 2016 More information Conference and PhD master class: Public Religions and Their Secrets, Secret Religions and Their […]
Fourteen to One! | Mid-Year Special 2015
Fourteen contestants. One tetchy quizmaster. Three microphones. Numerous cases of wine. One glamorous assistant. Many bruised egos. A boisterous studio audience. A splash of irreverence. Dozens of questions. Four years of podcasts! A rapidly diminishing reservoir of academic credibility. And far, far too many in-jokes…
Discursive Approaches and the Crises of Religious Studies
What is a discursive approach to the study of religion? And how can it answer the crises of contemporary RS? Kocku von Stuckrad tells David Robertson in this week’s RSP podcast. Discursive analysis of one kind or another is perhaps the most prominent methodology in the study of religion today.
Climates of Queer Concerns
What might a queer feminist engagement with Latour’s proposals look like?
It’s that hectic time of year for academics when papers and exams pile up and the end-of-year holidays loom large. In the midst of it all, I’ve been dividing my attention between the knowledge projects that interest me most: queer feminist theory, religious studies, and feminist science studies – particularly those engaged with the climate change and the politics of our new global epoch which some have christened the Anthropocene.
NAASR 2015 Annual Meeting: A Report from the Field
The North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR) held its annual meeting last week in connection with the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society for Biblical Literature (SBL) conference in Atlanta, GA. Conference report for The Religious Studies Project by Matt Sheedy.The theme for this year’s NAASR panels was “,” which aimed to signal a basic problem in the study of religions;
Ecological Ecumenicism, Forever Ethical?
While claiming to remedy the excesses of anthropocentric thinking, Bauman’s eschatology remains overtly anthropocentric.
After the material turn, it should come as no surprise that scholars are taking a wide aperture approach to religious studies. Actor Network Theory (ANT) and various strains of New Materialism help in formulating horizontal connections between all sorts of objects that speak back to religious people.
Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 13 October 2015
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Jenny Butler
Dr Jenny Butler holds a Lectureship in the Department of Study of Religions at University College Cork where she teaches on contemporary religions in Ireland, Western Esotericism and new religious movements. She was formerly a Lecturer with the Department of Folklore and Ethnology (2002-2013). She is a member of UCC‟s Marginalized and Endangered Worldviews Study Centre […]
‘Lived Religion’ in the Japanese Context: Realities of Individual Practice and Institutional Survival
Japanese religiosity is not necessarily based on what one believes in, but rather on what one does or should do and what one can get out of such activities, regardless of whether the fruits are of a spiritual or material nature.
In the current state of religious affairs, the concept of “lived religion” brought to us by Meredith McGuire in her latest book “Lived Religion: Faith and Practice” appears to be a highly relevant one, and most certainly, …
(Buddhist) Mission to Burma: Dhammaloka, Lokanatha, and Early Western Converts to Buddhism
These early encounters between Buddhism and the West play havoc with many of the dominant models used to understand Buddhism in the West over the last several decades.
I first met Laurence Cox and the figure of Dhammaloka in 2012 at a conference at University College Cork in Ireland titled “Pioneer European Buddhists and Asian Buddhist Networks.
What is ‘Buddhism in the West’?
I often see “Buddhism in the West” lumped in with new religious movements (NRMs) or more interestingly as sources of therapeutic influence for new styles of mental health treatment such as those seen in the field of Psychology. The compulsion to lump Buddhism with new religious movements may derive from a variety of influences.
There appears to be much debate regarding what defines Buddhism in the West. Particularly, …
First transcriptions of RSP Podcasts now available
The RSP will be returning to your ears on Monday with a jam-packed season of excellent podcasts from the BASR Annual Conference, ASR Annual Meeting, SISR/ISSR Conference, the XXI IAHR World Congress, and more. In anticipation of this, we have some exciting news for you… (those of you who follow us on social media might already have an idea about what it is…)
Over the past year, – our wonderful archive manager, …