Funded in 1990 by the Religion Division of Lilly Endowment, Louisville Institute awards grants and fellowships to those who lead and study North American religious institutions, practices, and movements, advancing scholarship to strengthen church, academy, and wider society.

Are you a pastoral leader, researcher, senior scholar, or early career scholar seeking time and funds to support a research project?  The Louisville Institute provides several grant and fellowship opportunities to fund your work.

Grant Opportunities:

Pastoral Study Project Grant

Amount: Up to $15,000

Deadline: September 1st

Project Grant for Researchers

Amount: Up to $30,000

Deadline: October 1st

Sabbatical Grant for Researchers

Amount: Up to $40,000

Deadline: November 1st

First Book Grant for Scholars of Color

Amount: Up to $40,000

Deadline: January 15th

Dissertation Fellowship

Deadline: February 1st

Amount: $25,000

Other Fellowships:

Doctoral Fellowship

Postdoctoral Fellowship

Visit www.louisville-institute.org for complete application information […]

Please view the  Religion and Society Description.

The 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 […]

Rachel 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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The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities and the Religious Studies Program invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level in the study of Muslims/Islam in America to begin fall semester 2017 (08/28/2017).  We seek intellectually ambitious candidates with interdisciplinary aptitude, poised to become leaders in the field. A Ph.D. in Religious Studies or other related field is required by the start date, August 28, 2017.  Possible areas of specialization include, but are not limited to,

• History of Muslims/Islam in North America
• Religious experience or expression of Muslims in North America
• Social/political experience of the Muslim diaspora in North America
• Gender, race, class, identity issues related to Muslim experience in North America

Successful candidates will be […]

We would like to take this opportunity to introduce the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP: https://www.ipsp.org/).  This project exists to ‘harness the competence of hundreds of experts about social issues’ and to ‘deliver a report addressed to all social actors, movements, organizations, politicians and decision-makers, in order to provide them with the best expertise on questions that bear on social change.’ We Grace Davie (University of Exeter, UK) and Nancy Ammerman (Boston University, US), are the Coordinating Lead Authors (CLAs) for the chapter on religion, entitled ‘Religions and social progress: Critical assessments and creative partnerships’.  Altogether we are a team of twelve, including several ASR members.

The IPSP process – see https://www.ipsp.org/process – mirrors that of the Intergovernmental […]