Welcome to this week’s edition of the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! In this edition, you will find six conference call for papers, ten journal call for papers, three event, one prize, two job, two fellowship, one call for book proposals, and one summer course opportunities.
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Conference Calls for Papers
2021 Implicit Religion, Race, and Representation
21-23 May 2021. Online.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2021
More information: https://implicitreligion.co.uk/2019/10/21/cfp-2020-uk/?fbclid=IwAR2Ij2r-HIgwchJQOEuUULnXwkgtvFLoxC0MPL1Snx-0DnfFFDtX3PvGguo
Communicating Religion’s Relevance
82nd Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion
7-10 Aug 2021. Online.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2021
More information: https://www.sociologyofreligion.com/annual-meeting/
Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2021
20-22 September 2021. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Deadline for abstracts: 3 May 2021
More information: https://event.mq.edu.au/apsa-2021/
Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy
3rd ANU Religion Conference
8-10 December 2021. Canberra, Australia.
Deadline for proposals: 21 May 2021
More information: https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/religion-and-migration-culture-and-policy-0
Differentiation Theory and the Sociology of Religion and Secularity. Part II: Boundaries of Religion: Demarcations and Negotiations
Workshop at the Centre for Advanced Studies “Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities”
3-4 June 2021. Leipzig University, Germany and online.
Deadline for abstracts: 26 March 2021
More information: https://multiple-secularities.de/events/event/workshop-differentiation-theory-and-the-sociology-of-religion-and-secularity-part-ii-boundaries-of-religion-demarcations-and-negotiations/
Rewiring the House of God: Religious Self-World Relations in the Digital Environment
15th – 17th September 2021. Online.
Extended deadline: 2 April 2021
Journal Calls for Papers
Historizing Islam
Special issue of the Journal for the Contemporary Study of Islam
More information: https://contemporarystudyofislam.org/index.php/jcsi/announcement
Waikato Islamic Studies Review
More information: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/UWISG/review
International Journal for the Study of New Religions
More information: https://journal.equinoxpub.com/IJSNR
International Association for the Study of New Religions
More information: https://journal.equinoxpub.com/IJSNR
Female Mystics and the Divine Feminine in the Global Sufi Experience
Special issue of Religions
More information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Female_Experience
After the Theological Turn: Essays in (New) Continental Philosophical Theology
Open Theology
Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2021
More information: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/OPTH/html?fbclid=IwAR3DS5I8axW8PcgFgZjwsAJKTPIZziFBzQTi924GYetx5FrOHsi5-8PqET4
The Bible and Migration
Open Theology
Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2021
More information: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/OPTH/html?fbclid=IwAR3DS5I8axW8PcgFgZjwsAJKTPIZziFBzQTi924GYetx5FrOHsi5-8PqET4
Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World II
Open Theology
Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2021
More information: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/OPTH/html?fbclid=IwAR3DS5I8axW8PcgFgZjwsAJKTPIZziFBzQTi924GYetx5FrOHsi5-8PqET4
Phenomenology of Religious Experience V: (Ir)Rationality and Religiosity During Pandemics
Open Theology
Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2021
More information: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/OPTH/html?fbclid=IwAR3DS5I8axW8PcgFgZjwsAJKTPIZziFBzQTi924GYetx5FrOHsi5-8PqET4
End Games: Apocalyptic Play
Gameviroments Special Issues
Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2021
More information: https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/call-for-papers/
Revisiting Teaching and Games: Mapping out ecosystems of learning
Gameviroments Special Issues
Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2021
More information: https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/call-for-papers/
Events
Religion, Crisis and Disaster International Seminar Series
28 February – 28 April 2021. Online
Intersectional Imaginaries in Media, Religion and Gender
ICA 2021 Preconference Program
27 May 2021
More information: https://www.icahdq.org/
Religion, Race & Racism: Transnational Conversations Seminar Series
3,11, 21 March 2021. Online
More information: https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/research/conferences/seminar-series-religion-race-and-racism-transnational-conversations
Prizes
2021 ATF Theological Book Prize
Deadline: 31 March 2021
Jobs
Professor in Study of Religion
University of Helsinki
Deadline: 1 March 2021
More information: https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/professor-in-study-of-religions?fbclid=IwAR1hDLTqY2ad8GJ5Ly40zjA7bTWWsTtZFxK_w4MHZgrnLFeolt0RqXi7D3Q
Academic Editor (Islam)
The St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, based at the School of Divinity at the University of St Andrews
Deadline: 4 April 2021
More information: https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/3542/0/288921/889/academic-editor-islam-ao1699sb
Fellowships
Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal (RSDR) Fellowship
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Deadline: 6 April 2021
Post-Doctoral Fellow in History of Education and Iranian Studies
Northwestern University, Illinois, US
Deadline: 20 April 2021
More information: https://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/news-center/job-opportunities/post-doctoral-fellow-in-history-of-education-and-iranian-studies.html
Calls for Book Proposals
Modern East Asian Religion and Culture
The CSP Studies in Modern East Asian Religion and Culture (MEARAC)
Summer Courses
Digital Islamicate Paleography and Codicology Summer Course
Automatic Collation for Diversifying Corpora (ACDC) initiative
1 June – 20 August 2021. Online.
Deadline: 15 March 2021
More information: http://islamicate-dh.github.io/AboutDPC/