Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 3 October 2018

Welcome to the latest edition of The Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find one conference call for papers, one call for proposals, and two lecture opportunities.

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New books from Equinox Publishing 

Quote the code RELIGION for 25% off when ordering on the book page links

First book in the series Religion and the Senses published:

Sensual Religion

Religion and the Five Senses

Edited by Graham Harvey and Jessica Hughes, both at The Open University

https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/sensual-religion/

Conference Call for Papers

“When the Chips are Down,” It’s Time to Pick Them Up: Thinking with Jonathan Z. Smith

4-5 June 2019. Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Deadline for proposal submission: December 15, 2018

More information (PDF)

Call for Proposals

2019 EASR Conference – “Religion – continuations and disruptions”

25 – 29 June 2019. Tartu, Estonia.

Sessions Proposal deadline: 31 October 2018

More information (PDF)

Lectures

José Casanova

Early Modern Jesuit Intercultural Encounters and the Globalization of Secularities
4 October 2018. Leipzig, Germany.

More information: http://www.multiple-secularities.de/events/event/public-keynote-lecture/

Dr. Ina Merdjanova

Orthodox Christianity in a Pluralistic World

16 October 2018. Coventry University, UK.

More information (PDF)