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- Journals
- Publications
- Training
- Call for Papers
- Conferences
- Jobs
- Fellowships/PhD positions
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JOURNALS
Sociology of Religion, advance notice – http://socrel.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/recent?papetoc
Marian Burchardt – Faith-Based Humanitarianism: Organizational Change and Everyday Meanings in South Africa
The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture is a web-based, peer-reviewed journal committed to the academic exploration, analysis, and interpretation of the interrelations between and interactions of religion and religious expression and popular culture – broadly defined as the products of contemporary mass culture. The journal is based in Canada but is international in scope and open to the exploration of religion and popular culture in a variety of cultures and from a multiplicity of disciplinary perspectives.
Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism Online is now on trial via
http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/
Access is on campus or off campus via VPN.
The trial ends on 18 December.
PUBLICATIONS
Digital Religion: Understanding religious practice in new media worlds – Heidi A. Campbell (ed)
Digital Religion offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and new media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of new media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From cell phones and video games to blogs and Second Life, the book:
- provides a detailed review of major topics
- includes a series of case studies to illustrate and elucidate the thematic explorations
- considers the theoretical, ethical and theological issues raised.
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415676113/
New Brill series – Iberian Religious World
Description: “Iberian Religious World” is a peer-reviewed series that publishes academic works that analyze the different types of religiosity found in the Iberian World. But what is exactly the Iberian World? The space of the Iberian World is one that changes according to time. If until the end of the fourteen …
Contact: ana.valdez [at] yale.edu
Announcement ID: 198741
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=198741
Online search interface to my Digital Bibliography of Chinese Buddhism
The bibliography contains 2,273 entries on Chinese-language Buddhist publications dating from 1860 to the 1950s. Information has been sourced from print bibliographies, online catalogues, and first-hand bibliographic research. Each item page includes research links to related resources such as WorldCat, the MFQ(B) article database, and the DDBC Person Authority. Entries can be searched by keyword and the results filtered by publication date. Although other online bibliographies on this topic exist, I hope my contribution will be significant for the thoroughness of its citations and editing, and its links to other useful digital resources.
http://bib.buddhiststudies.net/
TRAINING
RESEARCH METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY RELIGION AN INTENSIVE TRAINING PROGRAMME
Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society, University of Kent
18-22 February 2013
This training programme is available for doctoral students registered at any higher education institution in the UK/EU. It is based on previous training developed by the Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society, funded by the AHRC, which led to the development of the Religion Methods website (www.kent.ac.uk/religionmethods), and aims to provide students with a core training in fieldwork approaches to the study of religion.
Topics covered by the training will include:
· Conceptualising religion for research
· Key elements and processes of research design
· The role of theory in social research
· The politics and ethics of research
· Sampling
· Rigour and validity in research
· Using quantitative data-sets for research on religion
· Ethnographic approaches in theory and practice
· Visual methods
· Developing research interviews
· Using qualitative data analysis software
· Researching objects and spaces
· Producing research proposals
To attend this training programme, students not registered at the University of Kent will be required to pay a £100 registration fee, which would cover attendance at all sessions and the costs of training materials. Delegates would need to make their own arrangements for accommodation, and there is a wide selection of affordable B&B provision in the Canterbury area. For those planning to commute on a daily basis, Canterbury is now less than an hour from London St Pancras on the high speed train link.
Space on the programme is limited and the deadline to register your interest to attend this programme is Thursday 13 December. To register your interest, please email Lois Lee (l.a.lee [at] kent.ac.uk) with a short statement outlining the university at which you are currently registered, the focus and method of your doctoral project and the stage of the project you are currently at.
CALLS FOR PAPERS
CFP: “From New Religions to the Blurry Edges of Spirituality: Where do Cults Fit in the American Religious Landscape?” Panel at the Annual Conference of the French Association for American Studies
Date: 2012-12-15
Description: Call for Papers for the panel “From New Religions to the Blurry Edges of Spirituality: Where do Cults Fit in the American Religious Landscape?” held at the Annual Conference of the French Association for American Studies, Angers 22nd-26th 2012. French and American journalists adopted a variety of a…
URL: afea.fr/spip.php?article447#atelier%205
Announcement ID: 198772
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=198772
CFP: Jews and Muslims in the Czarist Empire and the Soviet Union
Date: 2013-01-31
Description: In the second half of the 19th century the administrative and intellectual elites of the Russian Empire became increasingly aware of its multiethnic and multireligious character. In the age of national aspirations this trait of the Russian State was often seen as a potential threat by parts of the …
Contact: Franziska.Davies [at] lrz,uni-muenchen.de
Announcement ID: 198792
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=198792
CONFERENCES
Please join us for papers and round-table discussion about the role of ethics and religion in contemporary Scotland at ‘Elect Affinities:
Robin Jenkins, Ethics, and Religion in the Scottish Novel.’
Friday, 23 November 2012, 11.30am – 4.30pm Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh
This Interdisciplinary workshop is held in association with the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies (Aberdeen) and the Centre for the Novel (Aberdeen).
Papers will be presented by:
Margery Palmer McCulloch (Glasgow)
Ken Keir (Aberdeen)
Corey Gibson (Edinburgh)
J. Linden Bicket (Glasgow)
Timothy C. Baker (Aberdeen)
To view the programme, please see the attached flyer or visit:
http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/star/media/ElectAffinitiesSymposiumPoster.pdf
To book a place, please contact Linda Tym
(Linda.Tym [at] ed.ac.uk) or Timothy C. Baker (t.c.baker [at] abdn.ac.uk).
‘Daughters of Isis’ study day
Saturday February 16th 2013
Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT.
A series of presentations examining the lives, roles, health and deaths of ancient Egyptian women. Presented by Egyptology Online in association with the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology.
PROGRAMME
9.15 REGISTRATION: tea/coffee
9.45 Welcome and Introduction
10.00 Vanishing Queens: Three Mummy Mysteries
Dr Joyce Tyldesley
10.45 Medical Care for Women in Pharaonic Egypt
Roger Forshaw
11.15 BREAK
11.45 Women and Literacy
Dr Glenn Godenho
12.30 A Little of What you Fancy
Pauline Norris
1.00 LUNCH (please make own arrangements)
2.00 The 2013 Bob Partridge Memorial Lecture
Women’s Religious Roles during the Late Period: The lives and afterlives of Asru and Tasheriankh Dr Campbell Price
3.00 BREAK
3.30 The Mystery of a Wooden Cane found in an OK Female Burial: an
Accessory Staff or a Walking Aid?
Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin
4.00 What Skeletal Evidence can tell us about Women in Ancient Egypt
Emily Marlow
4.30 Conclusion
SEX: Religious and Theological Perspectives
Location: New Jersey
Date: 2012-12-01
Description: Sex: Religious and Theological Perspectives Princeton Theological Seminary Graduate Student Conference March 7-8, 2013 Princeton, New Jersey Sexas a concept,
identity, and practice has been the target of sustained controversy in public and academic discussions involving religion, theology, politics, …
Contact: courtney.palmbush [at] ptsem.edu
Announcement ID: 198738
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=198738
Challenging Consensus: new perspectives on Religious Nonconformism
1-2 Feb 2013
University of Leipzig
www.uni-leipzig.de/challenging_consensus
JOBS
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in South or East Asian or African History
Georgetown University
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Middle East History
Georgetown University
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFK130/assistant-associate-or-full-professor-in-middle-east-history/
University of Calgary – Assistant/Associate Professor, Numata Chair
in Buddhist Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=45934
Indiana University – Bloomington – Modern Hebrew Lecturer at Indiana
University-Bloomington
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=45906
University of Arizona – Assistant Professor, Japanese Contemporary
Culture
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=45932
Ohio State University – Middle East and Islamic Studies Librarian
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=45924
FELLOWSHIPS
Woolf Institute Visiting Fellowship 2014
Description: The Woolf Institute, which specialises in the study of relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims from multidisciplinary perspective, invites applications for its annual visiting fellowship. The Fellowship, tenable for a two to three month period that overlaps one of the Cambridge terms 2014: …
Contact: bs411 [AT] cam.ac.uk
URL: www.woolf.cam.ac.uk
Announcement ID: 198823
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=198823
Research Fellowships, Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim
Location: California
Date: 2012-12-15
Description: The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim invites applications for its research fellowships for the AY 2013-2014. The USF Ricci Institute is an internationally renowned research institute and archive that promotes the study …
Contact: lee [at] usfca.edu
URL: usf.usfca.edu/ricci//
Announcement ID: 198835
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=198835
(New) Dissertation Completion Fellowships at the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis
Location: Missouri
Date: 2013-01-06
Description: The John C. Danforth Center at Washington University in St. Louis is pleased to offer one or two fellowships to support completion of a dissertation on religion and politics in the United States. Fellows will spend the 2013-2014 academic year in residence at Washington University in St. Louis.
Contact: rap [at] wustl.edu
URL: rap.wustl.edu/dissertation-completion-fellowship/
Announcement ID: 198682