Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 5 November 2019

Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will three conference calls for papers, two jobs and fellowships, one workshop call for applications, one journal call for papers, three bulletins, and two courses and events opportunities.

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Conference Calls for Papers

Values, Worldviews and Religions in Education: Changing Realities in the City

8-11 June 2020. Stockholm, Sweden

Deadline: 15 December 2019

More information (PDF)

“Religion and the urban, natural and virtual environments”

Bi-Annual Conference of the ESA RN34- Sociology of Religion

26-28 August 2020. Groningen, Netherlands

Deadline for proposals: 21 January 2020

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Tantra, Shamanism, and Magic: Experiences, Practices, and Practitioners at the “Margins” of the Indic World

XXII conference of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR)

23-29 August 2020. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Deadline: 5 December 2019

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Jobs and Fellowships

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

“Beyond Secularization: Religion, Science & Technology in Public Life”

Arizona State University

Deadline: 31 December 2019

More information: https://csrc.asu.edu/content/postdoctoral-research-scholar

Visiting Research Fellows: Catholicism in the Global South

Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University

Deadline: 1 January 2020

More information: https://las.depaul.edu/centers-and-institutes/center-for-world-catholicism-cultural-theology/fellowships/Pages/general-information.aspx

Workshop Call for Applications

“Public Scholarship of Religion in an Age of Hypermediation”’

6-10 May 2020. Boulder, Colorado, USA

Deadline: 31 January 2020

More information: https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/events/spring-2020-workshop-call-applications

Journal Call for Papers

“Catholicism and medical practices in the 20th and 21st centuries: socio-historical approaches”

Emulations

Deadline for proposals (English or French): 15 January 2020

More information (PDF – French)

Bulletins

Faith in Europe Briefings

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Law & Religion UK

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Counting Religion in Numbers

More information: http://www.brin.ac.uk/counting-religion-in-britain-september-2019/

Courses and Events

Why Religion Matters: Religious Literacy, Culture and Diversity

The Open University, UK

More information: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/why-religion-matters

Jainism: an Historical Religious Journey through Art

11 November 2019. Gregorian Centre for Interreligious Studies, Rome, Italy

More information: https://www.unigre.it/en/events-and-communication/events/events-calendar/jainism-an-historical-religious-journey-through-art/