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Author Archives: DaBoss
The latest issue of Review of Religion and Chinese Society is available online
The latest issue of CFP: “Feasts in Latin America: Customs, Cultural Heritage, Social Patterns”
Daniela and I are organizing at the XLIII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISM, PERUGIA 2021 the panel 15 FEASTS IN LATIN AMERICA: CUSTOMS, CULTURAL HERITAGE, SPACIAL PATTERNS (Fiestas en América Latina: prácticas, patrimonio cultural, patrones espaciales)
The conference takes place at Perugia (Italia), from 6-11 May 2021. The deadline for the submission of a proposal is 31.01.2021. Further information on the conference you find at the following links:
http://www.amerindiano.org/xliii-convegno-internazionale-di-americanistica/?lang=es (Spanish)
http://www.amerindiano.org/xliii-convegno-internazionale-di-americanistica/?lang=en (English)
The proposals and a CV have to be submitted till 31 January 2021 via the online registration form you may find following the same link.
Presentations can be held Portuguese, English, French, Italian, Spanish and any Latin American language.
For any questions please contact the coordinators: Daniela.Salvucci@unibz.it or Tobias Boos,
tobiboos@gmail.com.
We wish you nice festive days, that you stay healthy and we hope to see you soon another time face-to-face.
Best wishes,
Tobias
Theological Action Research Training Day
Event Information
- Date of Event
- 6th January 2021
- Last Booking Date for this Event
- 4th January 2021
Description
The training is designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to embark on your own theological action research project.
The day is run by Dr Helen Cameron, Research Associate of the Centre for Baptist Studies at Regent’s Park College, Oxford and Dr James Butler, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Roehampton and MA lecturer at the Church Mission Society, Oxford.
The day runs from 2.30pm to 8.30pm (UK time). It will be interactive and conversational and take place over Zoom.
- Early Bird Fees (now until 30/11/2020): Waged Researcher £45; Doctoral student £30.
- Standard fee (1/12/2020 – 4/1/2021): Waged Researcher £50; Doctoral student £35.
The Peter B Clarke Memorial Essay Prize
I’m writing you just before breaking for the holidays to let you know that our annual postgraduate essay prize is open to receive submissions. The Peter B Clarke Memorial Essay Prize is sponsored by Taylor and Francis, and it awards an essay on any aspect of contemporary religion addressed from a sociological perspective.
Up for grabs is £100 cash prize, £50 book voucher, a subscription to Journal of Contemporary Religion, and a full pass for a Socrel Annual Conference. As well, the winner is welcome to submit their entry to Journal of Contemporary Religion and, subject to peer review, it will be published and identified as the prize-winning article.
Full details are on our website, including the cover sheet can be download.
https://www.britsoc.co.uk/groups/study-groups/sociology-of-religion-study-group/funding/
The deadline for the essay prize is 30 April 2021. There is lots of time, so if you are a postgraduate member, please consider entering! And if you are supervising a student or teach students in this field, please pass on the details for their consideration.
With best regards,
Michael Munnik
Publications and Communications Officer, Socrel
on behalf of the Socrel Executive Committe
Online seminar: “Becoming religious: How and why beliefs and practices are transmitted.”
This is a reminder that INFORM’s next online seminar will take place from 5.30-7.30pm on 14th January, on the topic “Becoming religious: How and why beliefs and practices are transmitted.” The seminar will explore the motivations of minority religions and spiritual seekers to transmit and learn, and the processes they employ.
You can register to attend by making a donation through our website, at https://inform.ac/seminars . If you would prefer not to make a donation, please email us at inform@kcl.ac.uk to book your place.
Speakers will give short presentations, followed by an extended conversation and Q&A. More details about the seminar are below.
Confirmed speakers include:
- “The Stickiness of Non-Religion? Intergenerational Transmission and the Formation of Non-Religious Identities in Childhood” – Dr Anna Strhan, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of York and Dr Rachael Shillitoe, Research Associate, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham
- “Religious transmission among British Sikhs” – Dr Jasjit Singh, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds
- “Making Witches: Transmission of Wicca Before, During and After the Era of the Self-help Paperback” – Dr Christina Oakley Harrington, Pagan Federation
- “Inventing Memory: the challenges of mass conversion in a liberal setting” – Professor Ben Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
- Professor Emerita Kim Knott, Lancaster University will respond.
Seminar abstract
All people, young and old, are involved in the process of learning and passing on ideas, beliefs and practices that are important to them. This is how they express their identities and commitments, and how they sustain their worldviews, ideologies and ritual systems. Without effective processes for intergenerational and adult transmission, religious institutions, new or well-established, cannot survive and thrive. That ‘chain of memory’, as Danièle Hervieu-Léger noted, is the major feature distinguishing religion from other systems of meaning. And, although many in Western societies find themselves unschooled and adrift when it comes to religious affiliation and participation, they have increasing access, especially online, to an immense array of spiritual opportunities and resources. What paths they choose to follow, formal or informal, and how they go about acquiring the necessary beliefs, practices and training, are varied.
Best wishes,
Warwick J S Hawkins
Office Manager
INFORM (Information Network on Religious Movements)
SocRel 2021 -Abstract Submission Open
The annual SOCREL conference for 2021 will now take place online via zoom on from 13th to 15th July 2021. To deliver a paper, please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words. We will also be accepting a limited number of panel proposals. To deliver a panel, please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words. Due to the process of receiving and reviewing abstracts, we are unable to automatically accept those abstracts submitted and accepted for the 2020 conference. However, we warmly welcome all those who submitted abstracts for 2020 to resubmit your abstract for 2021. All presenters must be members of Socrel.
Please follow this link for the call for papers and to access the portal to submit your abstract.
Information about the conference, including theme and speakers, can also be found on the page above. Further details regarding registration and how presentations will be delivered (e.g. live or pre-recorded) will be uploaded in due course.
Abstracts must be submitted by 10 February 2021.
Key Dates:
- Abstract submission: Open now
- Early bird registration opens: 20 January 2021
- Abstract submission closes: 10 February 2021
- Decision notification: 26 February 2021
- Presenter registration closes: 26 March 2021
- Registration closes: 30th June 2021
Should you have any questions or queries, then please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Best wishes,
Dr Rachael Shillitoe
R.Shillitoe@bham.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Conference and Events Officer for the British Sociological Association, Sociology of Religion Group (SocRel)
Call for Project Applications: Mapping the Sociology of Religion in Britain
BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group
Mapping the Sociology of Religion in Britain via the history and development of SOCREL
A Call for Project Applications
The British Sociological Association supports the work of numerous ‘Study Groups’ which explore issues and research in specialist areas of the discipline. The BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group (SOCREL) is one such group. Over the last 45 years, it has flourished into a significant community of scholarship that welcomes researchers from a wide range of disciplines within and beyond Sociology. These include scholars in Theology and Religious Studies, Racial and Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, and so on. It is likely that the events hosted by the Study Group have been an important catalyst for the discipline in Britain, not least by supporting the work of new scholars. Encouraging postgraduates has been integral to the ethos of the Study Group since its inception.
This SOCREL-funded project seeks to map the history and development of the Sociology of Religion in Britain using the events, networks, and leading scholars associated with the Study Group as a lens through which to explore key moments in the discipline. On a somewhat smaller scale, this project mirrors in some way the publication of Jennifer Platt’s book on the history of the BSA itself, published by Routledge in 2014 (A Sociological History of the British Sociological Association). This project will similarly attempt to map the history of SOCREL, evaluating its role in the history of the discipline; the way in which the Study Group has responded to internal and external dynamics and changing fields of interest; changes in the profile of members; and, its collaborations with other professional associations nationally and internationally within and outside the Sociology of Religion.
The project will be overseen by the Study Group Committee. It is expected that the work will begin in September 2021 and will be concluded over an 18-month period. The outcomes of the project will include: a journal article for submission to Journal of Contemporary Religion, subject to peer review; content (including a short video film) for the SOCREL website; a blog piece for the SOCREL website; convening a panel at a BSA conference; and, delivery of a paper about the project at the Study Group conference in 2025 (the 50th anniversary). The Study Group Committee have allocated up to £5,000 for the work.
We invite proposals to work on this project by 12th April 2021. The proposal should include information under the following headings:
- Aims and objectives (500 words)
- Methodology and methods (1000 words)
- Timetable (250 words)
- Roles and responsibilities of those involved (250 words)
- Institutional approval for those involved (if required) – e.g. letter/email from line-manager
- Proposed budget (travel, subsistence, consumables, transcription, etc.)
- Contact details for x 2 referees
Applicants should append to their proposal a 2-page CV outlining their career history, a list of publications, and their grant capture track record. We will be using RCUK criteria to evaluate proposals. Lead applicants should be members of the BSA and SOCREL (any co-investigator/s should also be BSA members), and should be affiliated with a University, or research centre / institute, or institution based in the UK. The successful applicant will be informed by 10th May 2021. Applications should be sent to the Study Group Convenor, Céline Benoit (c.benoit@aston.ac.uk).
Call for Papers Uniwersyteckie Czasopismo Socjologiczne/Academic Journal of Sociology
Uniwersyteckie Czasopismo Socjologiczne/Academic Journal of Sociology
According to the legend, in May1973 David Bowie was travelling through Poland back from a tourist journey from Moscow. At the Warszawa Gdańska station the train had a very long technical stop. It was used by the British artist to walk into the city and by chance buy a vinyl with the songs performed by the folklore band “Śląsk” at a local music store. We can find echoes of this accidental meeting today on his album “LOW” in the song “Warszawa”. We would like to follow this path and that is why we decided to focus on the topic of the influence of Polish culture on the broadly understood world culture and technology.
You are welcome to contribute to the newest issue of the ‘Uniwersyteckie Czasopismo Socjologiczne / Academic Journal of Sociology’. The topic of the issues will be one hundred and fifty years of the influence of Polish culture on world science, literature, music and technology.
You are expected to focus on the topics in sociology, cultural studies, musicology, literary studies, and history. They will touch upon the strong Polish accent of the global reception of its cultural systems, which would be treated on two different levels:
- As the influence of the Polish culture in the form of famous names of Polish artists;
- And as the reception and presence of elements of the Polish culture in the works of foreign artists, scientists and other creative personalities.
The texts that touch upon the following issues, are especially welcome:
- – the influence of Polish scientists on the world science, among them Aleksander Czekanowski, Stefan Banach (we would happily accept articles also about the works of Florian Znaniecki or Ludwig Gumplowicz);
- – the influence of Polish male and female writers and poets on world literature (W. Gombrowicz, R. Gary, W. Szymborska), referring to the last name of the famous poet, a Noble Prize winner, we would be happy to accept, among others, articles about the work of the other Polish Nobel Prize winners);
- – the influence of the Polish composers, musicians as well as painters and directors that remained outside Poland (Mieczysław Weinberg, Zbigniew Preisner, Roman Polański, Zdzisław Beksiński);
- – the reception of Polish science in tje global technology (e.g. the discoveries of the ancestor of the “Silicon valley” Jan Czochralski or K-202 by Jacek Karpiński)
- – the reception of Polish culture in music, science, literature, photography, cinematography etc.
Deadline for the abstract/outline submission:
31 December 2020 to email: m.choczynski@uksw.edu.pl
Deadline for the paper submission:
31 January 2021 to email: m.choczynski@uksw.edu.pl
The text should be no more than 24,000 characters (with footnotes and a list of cited works) and must be adapted to the standards of citation / footnotes that is found on the journal website(Uniwersyteckie Czasopismo Socjologiczne/Academic Journal of Sociology).
Please attach to your paper your short academic profile (up to 500 characters), affiliation, a list of works cited in the paper and a summary in Polish and English with keywords.
Leading Editors: Tomasz Michał Korczyński, Marcin Choczyński
Book discussion: “Nouveaux vocabulaires de la laïcité”
Le Centre de recherche Société, Droit et Religions de l’Université de Sherbrooke (SoDRUS) et la Chaire de recherche Droit, religion et laïcité (en collaboration avec l’Université Montréal, LACES Bordeaux, le GSRL et l’IUF) vous invitent au lancement international du livre Nouveaux vocabulaires de la laïcité, qui aura lieu le mercredi 9 décembre 2020.
Nouveaux vocabulaires de la laïcité
sous la direction de D. Koussens, C. Mercier et V. Amiraux
Date : 9 décembre 2020
Heure : 12h (heure du Québec) / 18h (heure de France)
L’événement sera tenu en ligne, sur Zoom.
Pour vous connecter, suivre le lien suivant :
https://u-bordeaux-fr.zoom.us/j/81022398087?pwd=Z1V0Y25KVVlYTHNRVzNMTDc1a0FVQT09
L’événement sera tenu en présence des contributeurs :
- Cécile Alduy (Stanford)
- Valérie Amiraux (U. de Montréal)
- Sylvain Crépon (U. de Tours)
- David Koussens (U. de Sherbrooke)
- Rémi Lefebvre (U. de Lille)
- Charles Mercier (U. de Bordeaux)
- Yann Raison du Cleuziou (U. de Bordeaux)
Avec des discussions de :
- Nicolas Cadène (Observatoire de la laïcité)
- Françoise Lorcerie (IREMAM, Marseille)
- Philippe Portier (EPHE-GSRL)
Pour plus d’informations sur le livre : https://classiques-garnier.com/new/DkuMS01