Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 16 November 2017

Welcome to the latest RSP opportunities digest – slightly delayed – where you will find details of five conference calls for papers, a day conference, an essay prize, and a new database. If you come across any opportunities of relevance to the global RS community, or if you want to promote anything yourself, then simply send an email to oppsdigest@religiousstudiesproject.com and we’ll see what we can do.

Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 10 October 2017

Welcome to the latest RSP opportunities digest, where you will find details of five conferences, a seminar series, a journal call for papers, and doctoral studentships. Thank you so much to everyone who has signed up to support the RSP thus far through our Patreon (8 patrons) and PayPal options.

Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 19 September 2017

Welcome to the latest RSP opportunities digest, where you will find three calls for papers, details of two conferences, and notices about assistant editor positions, funding, and an assistant professorship.

This digest is sponsored by the postgraduate taught programmes in Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Many of the RSP team have been through the Edinburgh RS programme, which comes highly recommended.

Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 7 September 2017

Please see today’s digest for details of 9 conferences/events, 2 scholarships, 3 jobs, and a journal call for papers. Enjoy!
Spring Academy on American Culture, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion

Black Religious Movements and Religio-Racial Identities during the Great Migration

In this podcast, Judith Weisenfeld talks to Brad Stoddard about her new book, New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Depression. In this book, Weisenfeld explores several social groups in the early 1900s who combined religious and racial rhetoric to fashion new identities.

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 31 May 2017

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The Religious and Political Landscape in Peru: A Historic and Cautionary Tale

I can’t help but see the parallels between the Peruvian religious and political history which Fonseca outlines in his interview and the events currently taking place in the United States where religion and politics are more intricately entwined than ever before by a minority Far-Right Conservative Christian movement and its dominant media presence. This intriguing parallel makes Fonseca’s interview timely and important as history repeats itself.

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 21 February 2017

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New book: Beyond Religious Tolerance: Muslim, Christian & Traditionalist Encounters in an African Town

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 14 February 2017

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Conference: Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 6 December 2016

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Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 29 November 2016

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Conference report: “Religious Pluralisation—A Challenge for Modern Societies”

A conference report for The Religious Studies Project by Ashlee Quosigk, a PhD student at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland on the “Religious Pluralisation—A Challenge for Modern Societies” Conference, which had an important and timely mission to identify innovative research approaches as well as broad political and social scopes of action to address religious plurality.

Communism and Catholicism: Religion and Religious Studies in Lithuania

What is the religious field like in a country where religion was banned for half of the 20th century? And how do you set up a Religious Studies department there? Under Communism, religion was suppressed in the formerly Catholic Eastern European country of Lithuania until the 1990s.

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 13 September 2016

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How about having your notification posted with the Religious Studies Project’s weekly Opportunities Digest? It’s easy,Calls for papersBook series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion…

ISKCON And When New Religions Aren’t So New Anymore

A roundtable discussion considering the future of ISKCON and what happens when religions are no longer ‘new’.
As a follow-up to our interview with Kim Knott on ISKCON in Britain, this podcast is a roundtable discussion at the ISKCON 50 conference at Bath Spa University, 2016.