Welcome to the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find four jobs, fourteen events, four conference calls for papers, one fellowship, one grant, one call for film submissions, and one workshops.
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Jobs
Assistant Professor of African American Religion and Africana Studies
Rhodes College, Tennessee, US
Position open until filled
More information: https://jobs.rhodes.edu/postings/3647
Postdoctoral Researcher Studying Religion and Migration
Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Deadline: 27 October 2021
More information: https://www.uva.nl/en/content/vacancies/2021/10/21-797-postdoctoral-researcher-studying-religion-and-migration.html?cb
Assistant Professor or Associate Professor of Early Christianity
Penn State, US
Deadline: 16 November 2021
More information: https://psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Academic/job/University-Park-Campus/Assistant-Professor-or-Associate-Professor-of-Early-Christianity_REQ_0000020701-1
Editor of Sociology of Religion
Deadline: 1 April 2022
More information: https://academic.oup.com/socrel/pages/call_for_editor
Events
Religion, Society, and Trust Seminar Series
Nanyang Technological University
Monthly beginning 29 October 2021, online
More information:https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/research/religion-society-and-trust
Digital Religion 2.0 Book Launch
22 October 2021, online
More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/141370844815610/
Misusing Books: Material Texts, Ritual Failure, and Lived Religion in the Late Roman Mediterranean
21 October 2021. Oxford, UK and online
More information: https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2a01146a-8adc-4475-aba0-cfa81fbd3352/
New book “Respecter l’autre” by André Couture Webinar
Canadian Society for the Study of Religion
29 October 2021. Online
More information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc69xZ740Njz1g3y1_K4GljB3GMdfAHeHRpCqVX458Zi0j0cQ/viewform
The Gnostic Jesus: The Divine Savior in the Gospel of Judas and Other Early Christian Writings
Religions of the World: Past and Present Community Lecture Series 2021-2022
4 November 2021. Online or Worthington, Ohio, US
More information: https://religion.osu.edu/events/gnostic-jesus-divine-savior-gospel-judas-and-other-early-christian-writings
Researching Language and Religion in Different Contexts
Anglia Ruskin University, UK
27 October 2021. Online
More information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researching-language-and-religion-in-different-contexts-tickets-191236482467
Crafting Utopias for Spiritual Nationalism: Heterodoxy and Patriotism in Indian Guru Worship in China
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
2 November 2021. Online
More information: https://www.hkihss.hku.hk/en/events/seminar-by-dr-anna-iskra-20211102/
“Unknown old writing, syllabary and temple Nikaya-Jinuiyama Zenkoji Anjuin-“
Osaka University Ancient Medieval Literature Study Group
6 November 2021. Osaka, Japan and online
More information: https://jarsa.jp/event/a06/pref27/8616/
Religion between the personal and the public: Contemporary approaches Webinar Series
Organized by The Centre for Religion, Conflict and Globalization (CRCG – University of Groningen) and Research in Sociology of Religion (ISOR – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
2 November 2021, 12 December 2021, and 11 January 2022. Online
More information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScn6I4re7E5GVdg0HXXiR4CWttJdL_BTNKL_QhQVDIPIQwxNg/viewform
Gender, Sex, and Power: Towards a History of Clergy Sex Abuse in the U.S. Catholic Church
27-29 March 2022. University of Notre Dame, US
More information: https://cushwa.nd.edu/news/gendersexandpower/
Webinar: Sustainable death practices in contemporary Europe
3 November 2021. Online
More information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdn3A-5dd_pAzW2U7drA7PT9ymjJMlPXgQrmuCyoSoG3SgAXg/viewform
Buddhism and Posthumanism Event Series 2021–2022
Beginning 4 November 2021. Online
More information: https://mailchi.mp/24c24f7a7bf7/announcing-our-buddhism-posthumanism-series-and-other-updates
Book Launch Discussion: Rethinking ‘Classical Yoga’ and Buddhism
14 November 2021
More information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-discussion-rethinking-classical-yoga-and-buddhism-tickets-191585857457
‘Still Mining the Forgotten: Black Catholic Nuns in United States History”
11 November 2021. Online
More information: https://www.slu.edu/calendar/index.php?eID=12548
Conference Calls for Papers
Surveillance: 2022 Midwest American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
3-5 March 2022. Missouri State University, US
Deadline for Proposals: 17 December 2021
More information: https://sites.google.com/view/midwestaar/CFP?authuser=0
Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion
21–25 March, 2022. Heidelberg, Germany
Deadline: 15 November 2021
More information: https://www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/md/hca/spring/cfp_2022_traditional_final.pdf
Yoga darśana, yoga sādhana: Methods, migrations, mediations
18-21 May 2022. Krakow, Poland
Deadline: 31 October 2021
More information: https://ydys2022.org/
Emerging Voices in the Study of Theravada Civilizations
AAS Theravada Studies Group Meeting
24-27 March 2021. Honolulu, Hawai’i
More information: https://theravadastudiesgroup.wordpress.com/2021/10/13/emerging-voices-in-the-study-of-theravada-civilizations/
Fellowships
Department of Religion (with preferred specialization in Afro-Caribbean religions, Latin American religions, and/or Mayan/Aztec religion).
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships
Deadline: 30 November 2021
More information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62167
Grants
Crossroads Grants – Supporting innovative work examining the diversity of Black religious communities and cultures, past and present
Deadline: 1 December 2021
More information: https://crossroads.princeton.edu/grant-program/request-proposals
Call for Film Submissions
Shattered Justice, Shattered Lives: Counternarrating the War on Terror through Muslim Eyes
11-13 November 2021. Online
Deadline: 29 October 2021
More information: https://www.justiceformuslims.org/events/shattered-justice-shattered-lives
Workshops
Virtual Writing Sessions from CCSR and its member societies
20 October, 17 November, 15 December 2021. Online
More information: https://ccsr.ca/en/virtual-writing-sessions/