Welcome to another Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! In this edition, you will find six jobs, ten conference calls for papers, two PhD positions, two journal call for papers, one workshop, and three conference opportunities.
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Jobs
Research Fellow: Science and the Transmission of Islamic Knowledge in Britain
University of Birmingham, UK,
Deadline: 24 February
More information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CDU696/research-fellow
“Transregional History of Religion” Professorship
University of Regensburg, Germany
Deadline: 15 March 2021
Associate Director, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies
School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States
More information: https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/associate-director-abbasi-program-in-islamic-studies-11439?et=mIw5DwHV
Research Associate (UK Data Service Data Skills Modules)
Cathie Marsh Institute, University of Manchester, UK
Deadline: 16 February 2021
More information: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?isPreview=Yes&jobid=19637
Assistant Professor of Religion
Department of Religion, Kalamazoo College
Deadline: 8 March 2021
More information: https://www.kzoo.edu/search/index.php?dept=religion
Book review editor for Critical Research on Religion
Deadline: 1 March 2021
Conference Calls for Papers
“Religion as an Object of Historical and Social Scientific Study: Global Perspectives”
Workshop at the Centre for Advanced Studies –“Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities”
4-5 November 2021. Leipzig University, Germany.
Deadline: 30 April 2021
More information: https://www.multiple-secularities.de/media/religion_as_an_object_of_scientific_study_cfp_2.pdf
2021 American academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings – Various CfPs
20-23 November 2021, San Antonio, TX, US
Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2021
More information: https://cdn.filestackcontent.com/8hrBYfDQQUOkEyxBwomX?2021-AAR-Call-for-Proposals.pdf, https://aar-conference.imis-inspire.com/a/page/ProgramUnits/sociology-religion-unit
“Transformations of Islam in the face of the therapeutic discourse”
The ISSR digital annual conference
12- 15 July 2021
Deadline for proposals: 28 February 2021
More information: https://conference-system.sisr-issr.org/conferences/conference-2021/#papers
“Soviet Spirituality”: The Phenomenon and Its Research Possibilities
10-11 June 2021. Riga, Latvia
Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2021
II Digital Congress of Sciences of Religions
Chilean Society for the Sciences of Religions, Complutense University of Madrid
19-21 April 2021
Deadline (in Spanish): 15 March 2021
More information: https://religiones.cl/congresodigital/
15th Conference of the European Sociological Association
31 August 2021 – 3 September 2021. Barcelona, Spain or Virtual
Deadline: 15 February 2021
More information: https://www.europeansociology.org/call-papers-esa-2021-conference-published
Religion in Global/Local Perspective: Diffusion, Migration, Transformation
ISSR 36th annual conference
12-15 July 2021, virtual meeting
Deadline: 28 February 2021
More information: https://conference-system.sisr-issr.org/conferences/conference-2021/#welcome
Global and Comparative Perspectives on Religion
22-24 October 2021. Portland Oregon, US (may switch to virtual)
Deadline: 31 March 2021
More information: https://sssreligion.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/
A Year of Change: The Impact of 2020 on Religion and Congregational Life
Religious Research Association
22-24 Oct 2021. Portland, Oregon, US (may switch to virtual)
Deadline: 31 March 2021
More information: https://www.rraweb.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/
Communicating Religion’s Relevance
82nd Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion
7-10 August 2021, online
Deadline for session proposals: 31 March 2021
More information: https://www.sociologyofreligion.com/annual-meeting/
PhD Positions
“Resonant Self–World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious
Practices”
International Graduate School Located at the University of Graz and the Max Weber Kolleg
of the University of Erfurt
Deadline: 15 April 2021
ESRC funded PhD studentship: Muslim women in higher education institutions in Britain
Jointly supervised by Dr. Khursheed Wadia (Warwick University) and Line Nyhagen (Loughborough University)
Deadline: 5 March 2021
More information: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mgsdtp/collaborativeandjoint/nyhagen_loughborough_-_joint_advert_2021.pdf
Journal Calls for Papers
Methods, theories, practices or experiences of teaching and learning in Religious Studies
Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions (JBASR)
Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2021
Transformations of Latin American Catholicism since the mid-20th Century
International Journal of Latin American Religions
Deadline: 30 June 2021
More information: https://www.springer.com/journal/41603/updates/18706536
Workshops
Rewiring the House of God: Religious Self-World Relations in the Digital Environment
15-17 September 2021, online
Hosted by the University of Erfurt and the University of Birmingham
Deadline: 1 March 2021
Conferences
Divine Bodies Conference 2021
1 April 2021, online
More information: https://genderinthebible.co.uk/divine-bodies-conference-2021/
Aesthetics of Atheism
4-5 March 2021, online
Open Div Summit
25-28 February 2021, online
More information: https://summit.opendiv.org/