Religious Studies Project Digest – March 8, 2023

Welcome to the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! This week you will find 2 new job opportunities, 2 grants, 4 awards, 11 Call for Papers, and 9 upcoming conferences/speakers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons (currently at 33!) […]

Spitting on the Sacred: Politics and Redefining Profanation

In this episode, Jacob Noblett talks to Dr. Finbarr Curtis about his recent book, Going Low: How Profane Politics Challenges American Democracy, to help breakdown the rejuvenation of populist political narratives and movements.

Religious Studies Project Digest – March 1, 2023

Welcome to the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! This week you will find 4 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, a seminar, and 6 Call for Papers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons (currently at 32!) to support all […]

Religious Literacy and Its Discontents | Discourse! February 2023

Join Benjamin P. Marcus, Paulina Gruffman, and Charles McCrary for this month’s #RSPdiscourse as they discuss a recent Pew survey on religious literacy and the so-called Asbury revival. Be sure to tune in!

Paulina Gruffman

Paulina Gruffman is a PhD student at Lund University. Her research is primarily historical (from the mid-19th century to contemporary time) focuses on esotericism, occultism, new religious movements, and “New Age” spirituality. She’s particularly interested in how these groups’ activities and writings intersect with popular and academic understandings of religion, as well as the historiography […]

Religious Studies Project Digest – February 22, 2023

Welcome to the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! This week you will find a new job opportunity, a grant, a seminar, and 4 Call for Papers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons (currently at 32!) to support all […]

Navigating the Discursive Study of Religion

In today’s episode, Teemu Taira and Andie Alexander discuss how social groups negotiate the category ‘religion’ and the relevance of the discursive methods in the study of religion.

Leigh Eric Schmidt

Leigh Eric Schmidt is the Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. He joined the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics in 2011. He has held research fellowships at Stanford and Princeton and also through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of […]

Religious Studies Project Digest – February 14, 2023

Welcome to the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! This week you will find a new job opportunity, 2 fellowship programs, and 3 Call for Papers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons (currently at 32!) to support all of […]

Where was God?: Jewish Theological Responses to the Holocaust

Where was God during the Holocaust? There is no straightforward answer to this and there are different viewpoints across the different streams of Judaism. Join Dr. Breann Fallon as she speaks with Dr. Barbara Krawcowicz on her recent monograph exploring Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust.

Barbara Krawcowicz

Barbara Krawcowicz is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Religious Studies of Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her work centers on modern and contemporary Judaism and the question how Jews have been transforming and reinventing their religious ideas and discourses in response to events seen as challenging their current forms. In addition, Barbara is also interested […]

Religious Studies Project Digest – February 8, 2023

Welcome to the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! This week you will find a new job opportunity, 1 grant, and 2 Call for Papers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons (currently at 32!) to support all of our […]

Critical Approaches to Studying Religion in Film

Ting Guo chats with Rebekka King and Tenzan Eaghall about their new edited volume, Representing Religion in Film (Bloomsbury 2022), and they explore the “ideological blindspot” of existing studies on religion and film, have a listen!

Religious Studies Project Digest – February 1, 2023

Welcome to the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! This week you will find 5 jobs, 4 fellowships, 1 grant, 18 Call for Papers, and an online talk about religion public scholarship. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons (currently […]

Oversimplified Binaries | Discourse! January 2023

This month’s Discourse! features our co-founder Chris Cotter, Lauren Horn Griffin, and Kristi Boone complicating and unpacking oversimplified binaries—be sure to tune in!