Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 28 February 2014
Today is quite a quiet week, but there is still some exciting news contained herein relating to conferences, new academic networks, and editorial vacancies,
Welcome to the ninth RSP Opportunities Digest for 2014. As ever, please remember that we are not responsible for any content contained herein unless it is directly related to the RSP. If you have any content for future digests, please contact us via the various options on our ‘contact’ page. If you are enquiring about any of the opportunities listed below, …
Religion in the Age of Cyborgs
What happens to religion if the future belongs to the cyborgs?
Merlin Donald’s Big Thoughts on the evolution of culture offer opportunities to speculate about the place of religion in the natural history of our species – an opportunity most recently taken by Robert Bellah in his much discussed last book, Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (2011).
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 14 February 2014
Welcome to the seventh RSP Opportunities Digest for 2014. Special materialistic romantic greetings to you all. As ever, please remember that we are not responsible for any content contained herein unless it is directly related to the RSP. If you have any content for future digests, please contact us via the various options on our ‘contact’ page. If you are enquiring about any of the opportunities listed below, please contact the organizers directly.
Guthrie’s Anthropomorphism Helped Bring Religious Studies into the Modern Academic Age
After all, how can one have a scientific understanding of New Age religions or UFO cults without understanding the spirits, ‘energies’, UFOs, and extraterrestrials that inhabit those religious worlds? Guthrie provided, for the first time, a theoretical basis for such a research project.
Without theories such as that presented by Prof. Guthrie, particularly in his book Faces in the Clouds (1993), the current move towards an empirical study of religious beliefs and behaviors…
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 7 February 2014
Jobs, Studentships, Calls for Papers, an Exhibition, a Workshop, and a study on researchers. What more could you want?
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“I Made It All Up and It Came True Anyway”
I asked him about this quote from J. Z. Smith; he replied that he was correct, religion is a constructed category, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t also real. So Latour takes the constructionist agenda of the post-structuralists a step further. Our categories are indeed invented, but not “merely” so, for they are also real. They become real through our wielding of them.
The story goes that somewhere on the West Coast of Africa, sometime in the 17th Century,
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 17 January 2014
This week, the digest contains details of a position at the RSP, calls for papers, new journal issues, new books, conferences, a summer school, a job, and some podcasts on esotericism.
Welcome to the third RSP Opportunities Digest for 2014. As ever, please remember that we are not responsible for any content contained herein unless it is directly related to the RSP.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 3 Jan 2014
Changes to the RSP Team; Seeking a new Assistant Editor for the RSP; Calls for Papers; Jobs; New Book from Acumen; and more
Welcome to the first edition of the RSP Opportunities Digest for 2014. if you haven’t yet had the opportunity to check out our Christmas Special, you can do so here. We’ll be back to our normal operational capacity with our first 2014 podcast on 13 January, with Russell McCutcheon speaking on sui generis religion.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 20 Dec 2013
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Religious Studies and the Paranormal, Part 2
In this second part we ask “the epistemic/ontological question”: in studying these experiences, how far should we be concerned with the ontology? Would to do so be an abandonment of the scientific materialism which underpins the discipline, and therefore a slide back into theology? Or can there be a bigger model of materialism – a “complicated materialism”, to use Ann Taves’ expression – in which these phenomena might be suitably explicable?
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 13 Dec 2013
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 6 Dec 2013
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 29 Nov 2013
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More popular than Jesus? Jung, Freud, and Religion
“…Segal touches on something rather interesting when he comments that Freud’s inner circle of brilliant acolytes all outgrew and turned against him, one after another, while Jung’s mediocre followers remained devoted to his methods even after his death. Is there an implied criticism of Jung there, that he didn’t dare surround himself with people who could challenge him intellectually, as he had challenged Freud?”
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 22 Nov 2013
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