31 August 2012 Issue
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In this issue:
- Books
- Journals
- Calls for Papers
- Jobs
- Fellowships
And don’t forget, you can always get involved with the Religious Studies Project by writing one of our features essays or resources pages. Contact the editors for more information.
BOOKS
Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence: The Role of Religion and Media (Media, Religion and Culture) – Jolyon Mitchell (Sept 2012)
This book explores how media and religion combine to play a role in promoting peace and inciting violence. It analyses a wide range of media – from posters, cartoons and stained glass to websites, radio and film – and draws on diverse examples from around the world, including Iran, Rwanda and South Africa.
- Part One considers how various media forms can contribute to the creation of violent environments: by memorialising past hurts; by instilling fear of the ‘other’; by encouraging audiences to fight, to die or to kill neighbours for an apparently greater good.
- Part Two explores how film can bear witness to past acts of violence, how film-makers can reveal the search for truth, justice and reconciliation, and how new media can become sites for non-violent responses to terrorism and government oppression. To what extent can popular media arts contribute to imagining and building peace, transforming weapons into art, swords into ploughshares?
JOURNALS
Sociology of Religion – Advance Notice – http://socrel.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/recent?etoc
Culture and Religion http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcar20/13/3
Buddhist Forum http://www.shin-ibs.edu/academics/_forum/v4.php
CALLS FOR PAPERS
International Congress: Rethinking Europe with(out) religion. Deadline for abstracts 30 September 2012
Full details as PDF can be found here CFP_Rethinking Europe with(out) Religion
Sehr geehrte Interessierte an der Forschungsplattform RaT! Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen!
Die Forschungsplattform „Religion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society“ (RaT) möchte Sie hiermit auf den im Februar 2013 stattfindenden Kongress „Rethinking Europe with(out) Religion“ aufmerksam machen.
Details sowie ein Anmeldeformular finden Sie auf der Kongress-Homepage: www.rethinkingeurope.at
Die Kolleginnen und Kollegen an Universitäten und Bildungseinrichtungen bitte ich, diese Information im Rahmen der Ihnen zur Verfügung stehenden Möglichkeiten weiterzuleiten. Bitte machen Sie Studierende auf diesen Kongress aufmerksam! Für alle Fälle hänge ich den CfP an.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen und allen guten Wünschen für einen erholsamen Sommer!
JOBS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=45049
Lehigh University – Associate or Full Professor, medieval or modern Judaism, and Director of Berman Center for Jewish Studies http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=45050
University at Albany – Assistant Professor – Eastern Mediterranean Religion http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=45016
University of Toronto Mississauga – Assistant Professor, South Asian Religious Literatures
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=45035
FELLOWSHIPS
Title: Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica: Historical
Consciousness and the Jewish Historical Imagination
Location: Massachusetts
Description: The Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of
History, Harvard University invite applications for the
2013-2014 Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica, on the theme:
Historical Consciousness and the Jewish Historical Imagination.
This includes, but is not limited to Jewish historiography in
all per …
Contact: :cjs@fas.harvard.edu
URL: www.fas.harvard.edu/~cjs/
Announcement ID: 196546
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=196546
Title: Gangolf Schrimpf Visiting Fellowship, Fulda Faculty of
Theology
Date: 2012-09-30
Description: The Gangolf Schrimpf Visiting Fellowship will be
awarded to a junior or senior scholar with a well-defined
research project within the field of medieval studies (e.g.
History, Theology, Philosophy, Literature) who wants to spend
at least one month, and up to three months, at the Institute
Bibliothec …
Contact: goebel@thf-fulda.de
URL:
thf-fulda.de/sites/default/files/artikel/fellowship_englische_version_akt_version_0.pdf
Announcement ID: 196478
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=196478