Welcome to the latest edition of The Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find two workshops, one prize, four conference calls for papers, and three job opportunities.
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Workshops
MA & PhD Workshop with Pr Pam Dickey Young
Aston University, UK
2 July 2018
The Futures of Magic: Ethnographic theories of unbelief, doubt, and opacity in contemporary worlds
The Open University, UK
29 June 2018
More information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-futures-of-magic-tickets-46353545703?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Prizes
BRAIS De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World
Deadline: 1 October 2018
More information: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize
Conference Call for Papers
Research in Religion
20 October 2018. New College, Edinburgh.
Deadline: 31 July 2018
Religion and Secularism on Campus: The Changing Dimensions of the University Experience
6 and 7 September 2018. University of London, UK.
EXTENDED deadline: 6 July 2018
More information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/representingislamoncampus/conference/
Following ‘The Way’: Historicizing the Interspace among Indic Religions
University of Mumbai, India. 30-31 January 30-31.
Deadline: 31 July 2018
Interpreting Rituals: Historiographical Perspectives and Pluralistic Contexts
29-31 October 2018. Leiden University.
EXTENDED Deadline: 30 June 2018
Jobs
Researcher for Jewish-Christian relations in the Persinate world
CERES of the Ruhr Universität Bochum
Deadline: 30 June 2018
More information: https://ceres.rub.de/en/news/stellenanzeige-wiss-mitarbeiter-im-erc-projekt-jews-and-christians-east-jewseast/
Researcher for West Asian Religions
CERES of the Ruhr Universität Bochum
Deadline: 15 June 2018
More information: https://ceres.rub.de/en/news/stellenanzeige-wiss-mitarbeiter-westasiatische-geschichte/
Lecturer with special interest in Religion & Nature or Religion & Health
University of Florida
More information: https://www.facebook.com/bron.taylor1/posts/10156593376987033