Candler School of Theology, Emory University Seeking Director of Public Theological Education
Candler School of Theology invites applications and nominations for the founding director of a program that will expand theological education beyond the scope of the school’s traditional graduate and professional degrees. The successful candidate will be appointed to a non-tenure track faculty position with a renewable eleven-month contract, will report to Candler’s Dean, and will serve on the Dean’s Council. Both rank and field are open. Preference will be […]
CFP – Jewish Death and Dying
Call for Papers
Call for Papers: What’s Jewish about death? – A Special Issue of SHOFAR: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
Guest Editors: Laura Limonic, Assistant Professor of Sociology, SUNY Old Westbury; Tahneer Oksman, Assistant Professor of Academic Writing, Marymount Manhattan College
Journal Editors: Eugene Avrutin, University of Illinois; Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Louisville
In her foreword to Jack Reimer’s foundational 1974 edited collection, Jewish Reflections on Death, a book that explores Jewish […]
ASR News & Announcements
ASR News & Announcements
Rachel Kraus, Executive Officer
Thank you to everyone who attended our 80th annual meeting in Philadelphia and helped make it a great success. I hope you all found intellectually engaging conversations, met some new people, and enjoyed Philadelphia sites. Highlights of this year’s meeting included Daniel V.A. Olson’s Presidential Address, Jennifer Glass’s Furfey Lecture on religion and politics, seven Author Meets Critics sessions, and four Presidential Sessions. […]
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion/Religious Research Association 2018 Annual Meeting
The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion is currently accepting individual paper, topical session, and author-meets-critics proposals for our 2018 annual meeting, which will take place October 26-28 at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The theme of the meeting is “Religion and Power: The Creation, Reproduction and Deconstruction of Social Orders.” The deadline to submit abstracts is March 31, 2018, and decision notifications will be made […]
Religious Study Tour of China
A Religious Study Tour of China will be run this summer by the US-China Catholic Association (USCCA). The USCCA has run study tours of China for the past thirty years, mainly for building relations between the Church community in the United States and China.
Especially in light of a potential breakthrough in relations between the Vatican and Beijing, there might be greater need than ever for the academic community to […]
MacMillan Center Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Society at Yale
The junior fellows of the MacMillan Center Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Society at Yale are planning an interdisciplinary two-day conference on religion, populism, and pluralism for graduate students and junior scholars May 4th and 5th.
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Public Theologies of Technology and Presence
The Institute of Buddhist Studies, with the support of the Henry Luce Foundation, invites proposals from scholars across the academic disciplines specializing in any religious traditions, theologians from all religious traditions, and professional journalists, to participate in a three-year research and journalism initiative and series of meetings addressing the impacts of technologies on human relationships.
This initiative seeks to support scholars of religion, theologians, and journalists to powerfully address a central concern […]
ASR News & Announcements
ASR News & Announcements
Rachel Kraus, Executive Officer
Preparations for this summer’s 80th Annual Meeting are in full swing. The meeting will be held August 11-13, 2018 at the Sofitel Hotel in the heart of Philadelphia. We will begin with a Welcoming Reception on the evening of Saturday, August 11th, during which we will announce the winners of our awards and introduce our newly elected officers. The Presidential Address will be […]
FIRE – Call for Papers
Call for papers
Religious identity and education:
A response to contemporary global pressures
A special issue in the Forum for International Research in Education slotted for publication in fall 2018.
One of the challenges and pressures which globalization has engendered for national education systems, schools, and classrooms worldwide is the growth of religious diversity. Thus, in many places, religious diversity has become a new reality of […]
Call for Papers- AAR Sociology of Religion Unit
Call for Papers
Sociology of Religion Unit,
American Academy of Religion
Denver, Colorado, November 17-20, 2018
https://papers.aarweb.org/content/sociology-religion-unit
Statement of Purpose:
The Sociology of Religion Program Unit of the American Academy of Religion serves as a bridge between religious studies and the subdiscipline of sociology of religion. The group operates as a two-way conduit to bring sociological research into the field of religious studies and to make findings in the broader study of […]