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 – 6 Sept 2013
This collection illustrates the spectrum of ideas that people throughout history have had when considering how to understand and study religion. The editors present a selection of key writings that reflect a broad range of voices on the nature and practice of the discipline. Religious studies draws on works by anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, theologians, and others, …
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 5 July 2013
Description: Indian Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies is a double blind peer reviewed quarterly journal which will publish original unpublished papers on Comparative Literature theory, history of the disciplines and trends, Translation Studies, Cultural Studies and any area of Indian Lite …
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 7 June 2013
JBE Online Books is pleased to announce the publication of ‘Tibetan Buddhism – the eBook’, by Geoffrey Samuel. ISBN: 978-0-9801633-8-4 Price $29.95
This book has been designed to provide an entry-point to the wider literature on Tibetan Buddhism for readers who wish to take their studies further, and provides a comprehensive introduction to Tibetan Buddhism (including the Tibetan Bon religion). Lavishly illustrated and with extensive embedded links to selected online resources,…
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 17 May 2013
I would like to announce the publication of a new academic periodical, the Journal of Religion and Violence (ISSN: 2159-6808). The JRV is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of religion and violence. In addition to publishing analyses of contemporary and historical religious groups involved in violent incidents, the Journal of Religion and Violence publishes articles and book reviews on theorists of religious such as René Girard,
Religion and the News Panel
It goes without saying that ‘religion’ is a topic that frequently finds itself in the media spotlight. Whether we are talking about the recent Boston Marathon bombings, the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, the Arab Spring, or the recent critique of the UK government’s welfare policy levelled by four major British churches, the ways in which the media negotiates, …
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 26 April 2013
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 29 March 2013
The ways in which children acquire and relate to religious beliefs and practices speak to central questions in anthropological debates on religion, learning, and intergenerationality: what is religion as an object of teaching and learning, and what role do generational ideas and practices play in religious inculcation? Although there is a growing body of work on children and religion (Gade, Bales, Stafford, Toren, Hardman), …
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 22 March 2013
Funded by the AHRC Connected Communities programme, ‘Philosophy and Religious Practices’ is an academic network organised by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Chester and the Department of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Liverpool Hope University, in partnership with local religious organisations.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 15 March 2013
Description: Call for Paper Submissions The main function of the international conferences “Buddhism & Australia ” is to provide a platform for academics and monastic scholars and lay Buddhists to present academic presentations. Traditionally all the presentations of our conferences have been published on the we …
Other reasons to unpack ‘religious experience’
“…scholars should be more conscious of the ways in which some experiences are being distinguished (often implicitly), by either the person having the experience, the community in which the experience is happening, or the scholar studying it. Attention should be paid to the ways in which an experience is being marked as the sort of experience that is interesting.”
Religious Experience
In this wide-ranging interview (our 50th!), Ann Taves and David Wilson discuss the concept of religious experience. Taves challenges traditional models of religious experience, rejecting both an essentialist approach with a sui generis category and a constructivist approach which accepts only discourses. Instead, she argues that not only can we examine unusual experiences in themselves, …
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 1 Mar 2013
Consideration of children in the academic field of Religious Studies is taking root, but Buddhist Studies has yet to take notice. Little Buddhas brings together a wide range of scholarship and expertise to address the question of what role children have played in Buddhist literature, in particular historical contexts, and what role they continue to play in specific Buddhist contexts today.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 22 Feb 2013
The 2013 NAASR annual meeting, held jointly with the annual meetings of both the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society for Biblical Literature (SBL), will take place inBaltimore from Nov. 22-24. The NAASR Program Committee accepts proposals for both individual papers and complete panels. We welcome proposals for rigorous, critical, theoretically sophisticated scholarship on any aspect of religion.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 15 Feb 2013
We are a group of young researchers inspired personally by Alexander Fol and we research and study at different universities and institutes in different countries: Senior Research Assistant Dr. Kalin Stoev – Centre of Thracology “Prof. Alexander Fol” Sofiа at the BAS Sofia; Ivan Marinov – Doctoral Candidate at the University of Montréal; Dimitar Tsakov – Doctoral candidate at the Freie Universität Berlin;