Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 20 Sept 2013
In this new collection the editors present a selection of key writings that reflect a broad range of voices on the nature and practice of the discipline, illustrating the spectrum of ideas that people throughout history have had when considering how to understand and study religion.
Marzia Coltri
Marzia Coltri was born in Verona, Italy and completed a BA in Philosophy with a thesis on the liberal and scientific thought of Karl Popper. After finishing her MA in Philosophical Counselling, she came to England in 2007 to embark on research on minority ethnic religious groups. She recently received her PhD in African and […]
Venetia Robertson
Venetia Robertson is a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Studies in Religion Department at the University of Sydney, Australia, where she teaches units in the history of religion, new religions, atheism, fundamentalism, and ‘world religions’. Her PhD thesis analyses other-than-human identity subcultures as a nexus between spirituality, popular culture, and the Internet, and draws on her fieldwork with the […]
J. Gordon Melton
Dr. Melton is Distinguished Professor of American Religious History of Baylor University’s Institute for Studies in Religion, as of March, 2011. In 1968 he founded the Institute for the Study of American Religion and has remained it’s director for the last 44 years. The institute is devoted to organizing, motivating, and producing research-based studies and educational […]
Nicholas Campion
Nicholas Campion is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology, and Director of the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture. His research interests include the nature of belief, the history and contemporary culture of astrology and astronomy, magic, pagan and New Age beliefs and practices, millenarian and apocalyptic ideas, and the sociology of new religious movements. […]
Eileen Barker
Eileen Barker OBE, FBA, is Emeritus Professor of Sociology with special reference to the study of Religion at the London School of Economics. She has been researching minority religions and the responses to which they give rise since the early 1970s. Her study of conversion to the Unification Church for her PhD, led to an interest in a wide […]
Linda Woodhead
Linda Woodhead is Professor of Sociology of Religion in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University. She has published widely on the growth, decline and transformation of religions in modern times; in Christianity, in An Introduction to Christianity (CUP 2004) and A Very Short Introduction to Christianity (OUP 2004), and as co-editor of Religions in the Modern World (co-edited with […]
Louise Connelly
Louise Connelly, Ph.D., currently works as an Online Learning Advisor for the Institute for Academic Development at the University of Edinburgh. She also teaches short-courses in Hinduism and Buddhism through the Office of Lifelong Learning at the University of Edinburgh. Her Ph.D. thesis is titled “Aspects of the Self: An analysis of self reflection, self […]
Leslie Dorrough Smith
Leslie Dorrough Smith is Chair of the School of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Avila University (Kansas City, MO). Her research focuses broadly on how evangelicalism and Christian conservatism impact American cultural attitudes on sex, gender, and race. She is the author of two books (both with Oxford University Press) on these topics: Compromising Positions: […]
Steven Ramey
Steven Ramey is Professor and Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, where he also is Director of Asian Studies. His research emphasizes contemporary practices and identifications in South Asia, and the ways those are contested and represented. He is author of Hindu, Sufi, or Sikh (Palgrave, 2008) and editor of Writing Religion: The Case for […]
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 13 Sept 2013
How can the psychotherapist think about not knowing? Is psychoanalysis a contemplative practice? This book explores the possibility that there are resources in philosophy and theology which can help psychoanalysts and psychotherapists think more clearly about the unknown and the unknowable
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 30 August 2013
I’m not really a ‘brief guide’ sort of person, so you’ll get 100,000 words, fully referenced, with further reading and an index. I conducted some special surveys for the book, interviewing ghost hunters and analysing almost a thousand separate locations and about 700 investigations. It’s published by Robinson in the UK and Running Press in the USA this month.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 23 Aug 2013
This issue seeks to investigate the dynamic nature of boundaries arising from historical and social contexts. Peacock’s article challenges preconceived and ethnocentric assumptions regarding agency, while Gatt’s article traces how activists experience power inside their organizations. Kao’s article offers a look at how care is manufactured in a long-term care facility in the American Midwest.
RSP Psychology of Religion Participatory Panel Special – Invitation to Submit Questions
Would you like to participate in a special episode of the RSP that lets YOU steer the conversation and ask tough questions on the psychology of religion to a panel with some of the worlds top psychologists of religion? Thanks to Dr. Pierre-Yves Brandt, professor at the Institute for Social Sciences of Contemporary Religions (ISSRC) at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and working in conjunction with The Religious Studies Project team, you now have that opportunity!
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 9 Aug 2013
“J. L. Schellenberg articulates and defends a simple but revolutionary idea: we are still at a very early stage in the possible history of intelligent life on our planet, and should frame our religious attitudes accordingly. Humans have begun to adapt to a deep past—one measured in billions of years, not thousands. But we have not really noticed how thin is the sliver of past time in which all of our religious life is contained.