Conference 2014: “Religion and Pluralities of Knowledge”

Call for proposals

We invite contributions from various disciplines and perspectives to explore the nexus of religion, pluralism, and knowledge. We encourage a conversation among theoretical, historical, and empirical contributions. Papers and panels may address topics such as the following:

• The pluralistic nature of knowledge about religion, including different disciplinary perspectives and new concepts: history as imaginative knowledge, sociology of knowledge, knowledge and space, materiality of knowledge (goods, objects, machines, instruments), aesthetics of knowledge, knowledge as related to gender and race, etc.;
• Various forms of knowledge about religion: rational knowledge, imaginative and poetic knowledge, explicit and implicit knowledge, embodied knowledge, ritual knowledge, etc.;
• Historical developments, changes, and reconfigurations of knowledge systems that […]
  

An Interdisciplinary Conference at Purdue University

West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, 1-2 November, 2013

The importance of Pentecostal-charismatic movements in the “Global South” has been well established. We would like to call for a scholarly reorientation toward the “Global East” where economic miracles go hand in hand with rapid growths of Christianity. This symposium particularly focuses on Chinese Pentecostalism in Asian societies. With its innovative styles of experiential spirituality, female leadership, and powerful communication strategies, Chinese Pentecostalism is challenging the dominance of conventional Christianity. This symposium seeks to assess the status and characteristics of Chinese Pentecostal-charismatic movements worldwide, with a special focus on East and Southeast Asia but also including Chinese diasporic communities in other parts of […]

In 2013 the UCSIA summer school focuses on the topic of Religion, Reform and the Challenge of Plurality. We will research processes of change that arise in the interaction between religions and societies in contexts of plurality – especially and also in a global world. Where a diversity of religions and societal perspectives are present, identity-claims are problematised, and the understanding of citizenship is evolving. What role can religions play in shaping such societies? How do plural societies affect religions towards changing their own attitudes towards one another and revising their role in society? How do religious convictions and perspectives on citizenship relate to one another? Can one ‘belong’ to various cultures and religions? These challenges can be studied in […]

ELEVEN ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INSTITUT DES AMÉRIQUES, 4-6 DECEMBER 2013, AIX-MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY

The 11th Institut des Amériques Conference Call for papers interrogates the theme of “Women in the Americas.” A generation of scholars in the humanities and social sciences have paid considerable attention to gender- and women-related issues. This more comprehensive framework, constructing North/South and transamericanist paradigms, ambitions to revisit such topics from interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives. Beyond traditional oppositions and stereotypes, we invite contributions which question permanence and change in the role and status of women in the Americas.

Conference languages are English, French and Spanish.

A SPECIFIC SESSION IN PREVIEWED ON WOMEN AND RELIGION

Despite the critical and antireligious nature of major American feminist protests in the 1960s and 1970s, […]

The 11th Conference of the European Sociological Association will be held 28-31 August in Torino, Italy.

The Research Network Sociology of Religion (RN34) has issued its call for papers. The call includes joint sessions with Sociology of Culture at https://dl.dropbox.com/u/56963/CFP%20RN35.pdf, Society and Sports, Sociology of Emotions, Qualitative Methods, and Sociology of Migration.

Click here to download a PDF of the Call:  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/56963/CfP%20-%20RN34%20-%20Sociology%20of%20Religion.pdf

Click here to visit the main conference website: http://www.esa11thconference.eu/call-for-papers

Abstract submission opens on 12 December 2012 and closes 1 February 2013.

Click here for information on how to submit an abstract:  http://www.esa11thconference.eu/abstract-submission

Call for Papers

RN34 – Sociology of Religion

Coordinators:

Anne-Sophie Lamine, anne-sophie.lamine@misha.fr, University of Strasbourg, France

Heidemarie Winkel, hwinkel@uni-potsdam.de<mailto:hwinkel@uni-potsdam.de, University of Postdam, Germany

Religion has often been understood as a response […]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Religion on the Move: Movement, Migration, Missions and new Media across Religious Traditions

Columbia University Department of Religion

Graduate Conference

Friday, April 26, 2013

Keynote Speaker: Michael D. Jackson, Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School

The history of religion is a history of movement.  But what happens when religion is on the move?

In this conference, we are interested in examining how an interdisciplinary approach to migratory experiences might illuminate the dynamic interplay between the limited possibilities in which people find themselves and the capabilities they nonetheless possess for creating viable, even vibrant, forms of social life.  By treating religion as an embodied and spatial phenomenon that intersects with political and economic structures in complex and often unexpected ways, this conference aims not […]

BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group

Annual Conference:  Material Religion

Venue: Durham University, UK

Date: 9-11 April, 2013

Dr Marion Bowman  (Department of Religious Studies, Open University)

Professor David Morgan  (Department of Religion, Duke University)

Professor Veronica Strang  (Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University)

This conference will focus on the physical, material dimension of religious life and practice, one of the major themes of religious research over the last decade. Material forms express and sustain the human search for holiness, transcendence and identity, and attention to the physical can lead scholars to unique and valuable insights.  Commitment to religious communities is learned and displayed through relationships to clothing, food, ritual and decoration, in […]

ASREC returns to the DC area on April 11-14, 2013. The program includes work from top academics in the fields of economics, religion, sociology, and political science.  Access the Call for Papers at http://www.thearda.com/asrec/conference/