Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – September 14th, 2022
Welcome to the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! This week you will find several full-time and tenure track job postings, several applications for fully funded Ph.D. studentships, and one call for papers. 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 […]
To My Comrade in Deconstructive Critique
Mitsutoshi Horii, in his response to our season 11 episode with Jason Ā. Josephson Storm, furthers Storm’s discussion of the importance of problematizing our systems of classification and highlights the critical scholarship in religious studies doing some of this work.
Religious Studies Opportunites Digest – September 5, 2022
Welcome to the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! This week you will find several job postings, one application for research funding, and one call for papers. 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 37!) to support all […]
Reflections on REF 2021
In this week’s episode, we reflect on the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 report. Gordon Lynch, the chair of the TRS panel, joins David Robertson to outline the process and tell us what it says about the situation for the discipline, and the social sciences and Arts and Humanities more broadly.
Nothing Is Perfect, but Is Anything New?
K. Merinda Simmons nuances and furthers Jason Josephson Storm’s episode from Season 11 by reflecting critically on the ways in which postmodernism is explicitly—or even implicitly—dismissed in religious studies scholarship.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 31 August 2022
Welcome to the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! You will find two job postings for this week. 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 37!) to support all of our upcoming developments. Please visit our donations page for information […]
Presentism and Politics | Discourse! August 2022 (with video)
Our first #RSPdiscourse episode for the season features host Emily D. Crews, who is joined by long-time friends of the RSP, Richard Newton and Theo Wildcroft. This excellent and wide-ranging episode addresses present issues of history and identity, social activism and new religious movements, doulas and abortion rights, and much, much more! You won’t want to miss it. Be sure to tune in and check out the video episode!
Unruly Women: Neocolonialism, Race, and Discrimination
For our first episode of Season 12, Falguni A. Sheth joins RSP editor Andie Alexander to discuss issues of liberalism, racial discrimination, religious freedom, and governance with regard to Muslim women of color and Black Muslim women in the US.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 24 August 2022
Welcome to the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! You will find one post-doctoral research position and three jobs. 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 37!) to support all of our upcoming developments. Please visit our donations page for […]
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 17 August 2022
Welcome to the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! You will find one scholarship, one publication, one teaching resource, one event, two fellowships, and one job. 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 37!) to support all of […]
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 […]
Iesha Javed
Iesha Javed is a writer, editor and educator based currently in the Middle East. She is pursuing an MA in Muslim Minorities in the Global Context from SOAS, University of London. Advocating greater tolerance and understanding among people, she has been an editor for the Jewish Muslim Sourcebook Project. Iesha works as a Transcript Editor […]
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 10 August 2022
Thank you for reading this edition of the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! You will find one call for chapters, one PhD program, one job, and one research project. 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 36!) […]
Falguni A. Sheth
Falguni A. Sheth is Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and has published numerous articles and books, including Toward a Political Philosophy of Race (SUNY Press, 2009) and Unruly Women: Race, Neoliberalism, and the Hijab (Oxford University Press, 2022). Her most recent book explores the racial dynamics of juridical […]
Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones is an unaffiliated scholar of religion, culture, and communication. He is interested in politics, posthumanism, disability, and environmentalism, and his research centers on the politics and consequences of the definitions of human and nonhuman being and of religion and nonreligion. Daniel also serves as an area editor for Religious Studies Review‘s Americas section.