Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 11 Jan 2013
Religion and Knowledge: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Mathew Guest and Elisabeth Arweck, was published by Ashgate in November 2012.
This is the collection of essays that grew out of the annual Socrel conference in Durham in 2009, and features essays on new atheism by Teemu Taira and on retention of fundamentalist beliefs in the context of teaching evolution to school pupils by Ryan Cragun and colleagues.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 29 June 2012 – Jobs, Journals and more
Significant time has been set aside in the conference schedule for short papers (i.e., 20 mins) and discussion. Established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines – including, but not limited to, theology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, social work, history, and law (canon and secular) – are strongly encouraged to consider submitting a proposal.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest (25 May 2012) – Jobs, Seminars, Books, Conferences and more…
The Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London invites applications for a permanent lectureship tenable from September 2012. Preference will be given to a candidate able to teach the ethnography of West or East Africa at undergraduate and Master’s level. The successful candidate would be expected to teach and develop other courses,
A Response to Callum Brown: Connecting “When” and “Why” in Digital Religion, by Tim Hutchings
“My own field of research is digital religion, an area with a particularly troubled relationship to history. Scholars and commentators interested in digital culture and its significance for religion have struggled to distinguish what is truly new from what has come before, and continue to search for helpful ways to talk about change.”
Reflections on “Thinking with Jonathan Z. Smith” [transcript]
Podcast with Aaron W. Hughes (11 November 2019). Interviewed by Andie Alexander Transcribed by Helen Bradstock (and edited by Andie Alexander) Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/reflections-on-thinking-with-jonathan-z-smith/ KEYWORDS Discourse, Identity, Jonathan Z. Smith, pedagogy, study of religion, translation Andie Alexander (AA) 00:00 Welcome to The Religious Studies Project. I’m Andie Alexander, and joining me today […]
Religious Studies Project Digest – November 22, 2023
Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find 30 new job opportunities, 1 fellowship, 7 calls for papers, 4 conferences/speakers, and 2 other events/submissions. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons (currently at […]
Religious Symbols, Secularism, and Culture Wars [transcript]
Religious Symbols, Secularism, and Culture Wars Podcast with Matt Sheedy (15 November 2021). Interviewed by Andie Alexander Transcribed by Andie Alexander Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/religious-symbols-secularism-and-culture-wars/religous-symbols-secularism-and-culture-wars/ KEYWORDS Secularism, Gender, Atheism, Critical Theory, Discourse, Culture Wars Andie Alexander (AA) 1:40 Hello, and welcome back listeners. I am Andie Alexander and joining me here today is […]
Sunday in the Park with Theory [transcript]
Sunday in the Park with Theory Podcast with Jason Ā. Josephson Storm (18 April 2022). Interviewed by Dan Gorman Transcribed by Jacob Noblett Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/sunday-in-the-park-with-theory/ KEYWORDS Metamodernism, Theory, Humanism, Social Sciences, Religion, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, Modernism, Deconstruction, Semiotics, Hylosemiotics, Nature, Philosophy, Zeteticism, Stephen Sondheim, Sturgill Simpson [Musical excerpt from Sunday in the […]
Obeah and Experiments with Power [transcript]
Obeah and Experiments with Power Podcast with J. Brent Crosson Interviewed by Ray Kim Transcribed by Jacob Noblett Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/obeah-and-experiments-with-power/ KEYWORDS Caribbean religions, Category of Religion, Magic, Obeah, Pentecostalism, Race, Secularism Ray Kim (RK) 0:01 Hello, everyone. Thank you for tuning in again to The Religious Studies Project. Today we are […]
Genealogy of the Jewish Notion [transcript]
Genealogy of the Jewish Notion Podcast with Daniel Boyarin (6 December 2021). Interviewed by Breann Fallon Transcribed by Andie Alexander Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcasts/genealogy-of-the-jewish-notion/ KEYWORDS Judaism, Talmud, World Religions Paradigm, Identity, Genealogy, Classification Breann Fallon (BF) 00:00 Thank you very much for joining us on this episode, Daniel. I’d like to start with […]
Religious Freedom, Exemption, and Festivals in Australia | Discourse! November 2021 [transcript]
Religious Freedom, Exemption, and Festivals in Australia | Discourse! November 2021 Podcast with Carole Cusack and Raymond Radford (29 November 2021). Interviewed by Breann Fallon Transcribed by Jacob Noblett Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcasts/religious-freedom-exemption-and-festivals-in-australia-discourse-november-2021/ KEYWORDS Anti-Religious Legislation, Consumerism, COVID-19, Discourse, Symbolism Breann Fallon (BF) 00:00 Welcome to this week’s edition of The Religious Studies […]
When Christians Meet Each Other: The Saint Thomas Christians of Southwest India in the Early Modern Period [transcript]
When Christians Meet Each Other: The Saint Thomas Christians of Southwest India During the Early Modern Period Podcast with István Perczel (08 November 2021). Interviewed by Sidney Castillo Transcribed by Sidney Castillo Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcasts/when-christians-meet-each-other/ KEYWORDS Saint Thomas Christians, Kerala, Early Modern Period, historiography, source language, mysticism. Sidney Castillo (SC) 0:00 Now, […]
Discourse Analysis & Ideology Critique in the Study of Religion [transcript]
Discourse Analysis & Ideology Critique in the Study of Religion Podcast with Craig Martin (1 November 2021). Interviewed by Savannah H. Finver Transcribed by Jacob Noblett Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/discourse-analysis-and-ideology-critique-in-the-study-of-religion/ KEYWORDS Critique, Discourse, Ideology, Language, Material Conditions, Post-structuralism, Power, Rhetoric Savannah Finver (SF) 0:04 Hello listeners and welcome back to The Religious Studies […]
Focus on Fieldwork: An RSP Remix [transcript]
Focus on Fieldwork: An RSP Remix A RSP Remix Podcast (18 October 2021). Presented by David McConeghy Includes clips from the following previous episodes: Developing a Critical Study of Non-Religion with Christopher R. Cotter by Breann Fallon Race and the Aliites with Spencer Dew by David McConeghy Kitchens and Constructions of Religious Subjectivity in Black […]
Masculinity and the Body Languages of Catholicism [transcript]
Masculinity and the Body Languages of Catholicism Podcast with Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada (24 May 2021) Interviewed by David McConeghy Transcribed by Savannah H. Finver Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcasts/masculinity-and-the-body-languages-of-catholicism/ KEYWORDS Masculinity, Devotion, Catholicism, material religion, lived religion, Ethnography David McConeghy (DM) 0:03 I’m Dave McConeghy. And today my guest is Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, Assistant Professor […]