Boston University School of Theology Announces Assistant Professor Position
sorbackend2017-08-04T20:00:08-04:00Please view the Religion and Society Description.
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08, 2017
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07, 2017
Social Inclusion Seeking Abstracts for Religion and Inequality Issue
sorbackend2017-07-23T16:22:33-04:00Social Inclusion – an open access journal indexed in the Web of Science – ESCI and Scopus (CiteScore 0.49) – welcomes abstracts for an issue on the intersections of religion and inequality.
Title: Complex Religion: Intersections of Religion and Inequality
Editor: Melissa J. Wilde (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 September 2017
Submission of Full Papers: 15 to 31 January 2018
Publication of the Issue: May/June 2018
Information: Although scholars of American religion acknowledge religion’s deep interconnectedness with race, class, and ethnicity in the USA, we nonetheless typically study religion as a factor that is independent from other social structures. Likewise, we rarely systematically examine class, race or gender differences between or within American religious groups. This thematic issue will highlight research that moves beyond these weaknesses by publishing papers […]
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06, 2017
University of Virginia Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health and Religion
sorbackend2017-06-30T16:02:01-04:00Please see attached file for complete information (click on Read More) to activate the hyperlink).
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06, 2017
News and Announcements June 2017
sorbackend2017-06-20T21:19:26-04:00Rachel Kraus, Executive Officer
Preparations for this summer’s Annual Meeting are in full swing. The meeting will be held August 12-14, 2017 at the InterContinental Montreal Hotel, located just steps from the main ASA conference hotels. We will begin with a Welcoming Reception on the evening of Saturday, August 12th, during which we will announce the winners of our awards and introduce our newly elected officers. The Presidential Address will be given by Michael Emerson on Sunday evening, August 13th, and the Furfey Lecture will be delivered by Mark Juergensmeyer on Monday evening, August 14th. The ASA Sociology of Religion Section day is Tuesday, August 15th.
The preliminary meeting program, the hotel reservation link, meeting registration page, and information about Montreal are […]
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06, 2017
Discounted Religion Books from Boydell and Brewer
sorbackend2017-06-15T15:27:24-04:00Order online here: https://boydellandbrewer.com/
Or call our office and order, at: (585) 275-0419
Use the Promo Code – BB398 – to get a 30% discount on the following titles:
| 9781843839118 | Evangelicalism and the Church of England in the Twentieth Century: Reform, Resistance and Renewal | Edited by Andrew Atherstone & John Maiden |
| 9781783271757 | The Education of the Anglican Clergy, 1780-1839 | Sara Slinn |
| 9781847011176 | The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia: 1300-1700 | Mohammed Hassen |
| 9781847011527 | Violent Conversion: Brazilian Pentecostalism and Urban Women in Mozambique | Linda Van de Kamp |
| 9781580465519 | Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria | Ebenezer Obadare |
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06, 2017
Winner of the International Center for the Sociology of Religion Grant
sorbackend2017-06-04T19:29:42-04:00Professor Nanlai Cao, from Renmin University of China, Beijing, is the winner of the International Center for the Sociology of Religion Grant. He will study the Chinese Christian presence in Rome.
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05, 2017
Grant Opportunity from IDEALS
sorbackend2017-05-03T22:18:53-04:00The Interfaith Diversity Experiences and Attitudes Longitudinal Survey (IDEALS) Research Team is pleased to announce research awards of $7,500 to support innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship based on the IDEALS data. IDEALS is a national, longitudinal research project that seeks to understand undergraduate encounters with religious and worldview diversity. Designed in partnership with Matthew Mayhew (The Ohio State University), Alyssa Rockenbach (North Carolina State University), and Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), IDEALS focuses on students’ perceptions of and engagement with worldview diversity and how collegiate experiences shape students’ pluralism orientation and attitudes toward others.
Awardees will have access to a […]
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04, 2017
Director of the School of Religious Studies – McGill University
sorbackend2017-04-13T12:58:36-04:00McGill University is hiring a Director of the School of Religious Studies. Please click here to view details.
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03, 2017
News and Announcements March 2017
sorbackend2017-03-17T13:31:25-04:00Rachel Kraus, Executive Officer
The theme for this year’s annual meeting is “Religion and Division: Causes, Consequences and Counters.” The meeting will be held August 13-14, 2017 at the InterContinental Montreal Hotel, located within minutes from the ASA conference hotel. Our President, Michael Emerson, and Program Chair, Di Di, have promised to make this year’s meeting unique in terms of both its intellectual content and social gatherings. As usual, we will begin our meeting with an Opening Night Reception on Sunday, August 12, which will include an awards ceremony recognizing the winners of the McNamara Student Paper Award, Distinguished Article Award, and ASR’s newest recognition, the Lifetime Achievement Award. The Furfey Lecture will be delivered by Mark Juergensmeyer, Professor of Sociology […]
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03, 2017
Call For Papers: Religion and Economies
sorbackend2017-03-17T13:22:44-04:00Please see the attached call for papers. Call for papers_Summerschool 2017