Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 17 February 2015
Dear subscribers, Welcome to this week’s digest! We are grateful to everyone who forwards calls for papers, notifications of events, and job openings. Please continue to do so in the future! Don’t forget the address! It’s oppsdigest@religiousstudiesproject.com Have a lovely week! Calls for papers Journal: Nordic Journal of Youth Research Special issue: Intersections of the Popular and the Sacred in […]
Pilgrimage as Tension
The reasons people might go on what they call ‘a pilgrimage’ are complex. Amusement may be as important as communion, escape from everyday life as important as prayer. But, and this is an important point that does not come up in the interview, they may not be the reasons a person may give when asked by fieldworking scholars.
That we now understand that people undertake pilgrimages for more than pious reasons has been one of the most significant advances in ‘pilgrimage studies’ to date.
Where are you going…and Are you a Pilgrim?
What is a pilgrim? Who is a pilgrim? Simply visiting a shrine, cathedral, temple, or other ‘sacred’ site cannot be the defining characteristic.
How do you choose a vacation destination? Is it a specific location with personal meaning, or is the potential for exploration more alluring than anything else?
Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 3 February 2015
Dear subscribers, We are happy to provide you with this week’s thick and juicy digest, full of opportunities to present intriguing thoughts, discuss important matters, and—not least—do some really engaging research! Thank you to everyone who forwarded calls for papers, notifications of events, and job openings. Please continue to do so in the future! You know the address, […]
Conference Report: International Society for Media, Religion and Culture Conference, 2014
For four days at the beginning of August, I attended the International Society for Media, Religion and Culture (ISMRC) conference within the beautiful grounds of Canterbury Cathedral in England. Hosted by Professor Gordon Lynch of the University of Kent, this conference brought together scholars of media, religion, and culture (sometimes even all three) to analyse these intersections in daily life, in spiritual practice,
Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 9 December 2014
Welcome to the RSP opportunities digest! Dear subscriber, We are always grateful for your submissions and contributions to the opportunities digest, so please feel free to forward calls for papers, conference, job, grant notices etc. to us! As per usual: If you have material you would like to see in next week’s digest, or at some point […]
Sámi Shamanism – Up Close and Personal
Riddu Riddu has been important for the Sámi population as a meeting place as well as for people who have lost their connection to the Sámi and wish to learn.
In his RSP interview, David Gordon Wilson tells us why he started studying spiritualism and shamanism, his relation to shamanism now, and general problems one may face while studying these subjects.
Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 25 November 2015
Calls for papers: Conferences and events 48th Spring Byzantine Symposium: “Whose Mediterranean is it anyway? Cross-cultural interaction between Byzantium and the West 1204-1669” March 28–30, 2015 The Open University, UK Deadline: December 10, 2014 More information The Oxford University Byzantine Society’s XVII International Graduate Conference: Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Byzantine World, c. 300-c.1500 February 27–28, […]
Now We Know Religion is Not Disappearing
Various new religious movements seek to establish a presence in politics through challenging the hegemony of traditional churches in a very peculiar way.
Postsecular, like postmodern, is a title applied to phenomena in society that do not seem fit into an earlier paradigm and has thus been named post-something because it perhaps is not yet visible what comes next. It is an end of an era but also a shift towards another and has the academic world digging out all the blind spots of the earlier theories,…
Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 11 November 2014
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Halloween Special: Religion’s Role in Terror Management Theory
When confronted with mortality, humans face the possibility of experiencing a significant amount of terror. Interestingly, many times, people are able to avoid this terror and actually enjoy the mortality themes that are presented. Consider the horror movie industry. To illustrate, Paranormal Activity (Blum & Peli, 2007) brought in $19,617,650 on its opening weekend alone (IMDB, n.d.). Further, …
Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 14 October 2014
This week’s digest features a renewed invitation from our archivist, Martin Lepage, to participate in the Religious Studies Project:
We would like to send an other call for help with the transcription of the RSP interviews. The transcripts will be key to improve accessibility to anyone interested in our work. They may also form the basis for future projects by the RSP. If you wish to participate in this task,
Resisting Conformity at the Margins of Marginal Christianity
Acknowledging the difficulties surrounding the identification and definition of a subject of study that is not only deliberately diverse but also intentionally resistant to definition, Ganiel and Martí nonetheless discern within emerging Christianity a distinct religious orientation built around the practice of deconstruction.
In what her interviewer has reckoned to be the first Religious Studies Project podcast to focus solely on the study of an expression of contemporary Christianity,…
Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 9 September 2014
Calls for papers Material Religion: Embodiment, Materiality, Technology: An interdisciplinary conference September 11–12, 2015 Duke University, USA Calls for: abstracts and brief vita Deadline: March 15, 2015 More information (pdf) On the Road: Travels, Pilgrimages and Social Interaction August 6–8, 2015 University of Tampere, Finland Calls for: abstracts Deadline: September 15, 2014 More information Singles […]
Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 2 September 2014
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