Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 18 December 2019
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 11 December 2019
Welcome back to another wonderful edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find three journal call for papers, two jobs, two conference call for papers, and one database opportunities.
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Stacey Gutkowski
Dr Stacey Gutkowski is a Senior Lecturer in Conflict Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Divided Societies at King’s College London. She is the author of Secular War: Myths of Religion, Politics and Violence (I.B. Tauris, 2013), and has been co-director of the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network (www.nsrn.net) since 2008. […]
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 26 November 2019
Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will two awards, one journal call for papers, one course, one job, and two events opportunities.
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 16 October 2019
Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! We have a packed digest for you this week, you will find three conferences, five events, seven conference calls for papers, one journal call for papers, and three job opportunities.
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The Politics of Religious Freedom and the Criminalization of Blackness
Bishop Brathwaite’s story points out to us the degree to which the ghostly histories of enslaved and colonized peoples continue to haunt the present from the graves of colonial infrastructures and through repurposed modes of colonial regulation. We can include in this the category of religion and its promised freedom as sites for such hauntings as well
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 5 June 2019
Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find one conference call for presentations and two journal calls for papers opportunities.
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 16 May 2019
Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find two events and two conference call for papers opportunities.
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A Denizen of the Recent Past Lurking in the Present: Slenderman as Folklore
Legendary figures and other forms of folklore need to be understood in relation to the vast configuring of social relationships and structures that are part of cultural expression. As the efficacy of these mediating structures erode, individuals lose the influences from the values of a wide range of groups. Here, the idea of a cyberspace community is really an illusion.
Religion as a Tactic of Governance
Naomi Goldenberg argues that ‘religion’, as a separate sphere from governance, has been projected onto the past for strategic purposes. How does viewing religions as “restive once-and-future governments” help us understand the functioning of this category in contemporary discourse?
Challenges in the Study of Gender and Contemporary Occultism
Were publications written decades ago for “women-only” already part of history or not? What to do when a certain publication was designated as “available to women scholars only” in one feminist archive but was unrestricted in another?
The Gods of Indian Country
Dr. Jennifer Graber’s new book, “The Gods of Indian Country,” grew out of lingering questions from her first book, a study of American Quakers and prisons. Graber learned that Quakers served as missionaries to Native American reservations in the West. She combined this interest in Quaker missions with her research into Native American captivity, so that the resulting narrative contrasts the motives of U.S. officials with Kiowa captives on an Oklahoma reservation.
Jennifer Graber
Professor Graber works on religion and violence and inter-religious encounters in American prisons and on the American frontier. Her first book, The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America, explores the intersection of church and state during the founding of the nation’s first prisons. Her latest book, The Gods of Indian Country: Religion […]
“Soka Gakkai, Kōmeitō and the religious voices of Japan’s political arena
Throughout Japanese history, religion has always coloured and influenced the matters of the state. Religious validation of imperialist aggression and Japan’s war efforts in the first half of the 20th century is just one example of this.
Children in New Religious Movements
In the complex and sometimes fraught relationship between New Religious Movements and the wider culture and state, why is it that children are so often a focus? Children are seen as needing special protection and therefore legitimising dramatic state intervention, but are also seen as of particular importance to the future of these movements, and in some more millennial groups, of the world itself.