Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 16 December 2014
Calls for papers Muslim Leadership in Britain: Developments, Challenges and Opportunities April 1, 2015, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM University of Central Lancashire, UK Deadline: January 19, 2015 More information The Role of Religions in the Turkic Culture September 9–11, 2015 Budapest, Hungary Deadline: January 16, 2015 More information Anthology: Female Leaders in New Religious […]
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, […]
Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – 5 August 2014
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 01 July 2014
Readers will have to excuse any deficiencies in the content or presentation of this week’s digest. Jane is enjoying a well-deserved week off, so this week the Opps Digest comes to you from the keyboard of Chris. He isn’t quite as awesome as Jane, nor as Norwegian.
Things have picked up this week, but as ever we invite one and all to contribute to the Opportunities Digest:
Book Review – Philosophical Explorations of New and Alternative Religions (ed. by Morgan Luck)
May 2014 Book Reviews Podcast – see the podcast page for author information. In this volume, edited by Morgan Luck, a variety of philosophers turn their analytical attention to the basic premises and tenets of new religious groups, such as Raelianism, Mormonism and Scientology in order to prove, or disprove their internal logic. Often this […]
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 – 24 January 2014
Welcome to the fourth 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, please contact the organizers directly.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 10 January 2014
In the second opportunities digest for 2014, we bring you SO MANY calls for papers, in addition to job adverts, studentships, new book announcements, training courses, conference announcements, summer courses and more.
Welcome to the second 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 – 13 Dec 2013
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 6 Dec 2013
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 22 Nov 2013
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 15 Nov 2013
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 8 Nov 2013
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 11 Oct 2013
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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.