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London Youth, Religion, and Politics: Engagement and Activism from Brixton to Brick Lane

Daniel Nilsson DeHanas

Oxford University Press, 2016

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/london-youth-religion-and-politics-9780198743675

For more than a decade the “Muslim question” on integration and alleged extremism has vexed Europe, revealing cracks in long-held certainties about the role of religion in public life. Secular assumptions are being tested not only by the growing presence of Muslims but also by other fervent new arrivals such as Pentecostal Christians. London Youth, Religion, and Politics focuses on young adults of immigrant parents in two inner-city London areas: the East End and Brixton. It paints vivid portraits of dozens of young men and women met at local cafes, on park benches, and in council estate stairwells, and provides reason for a measured hope.
In East End streets like Brick Lane, revivalist Islam has been generating more civic integration although this comes at a price that includes generational conflict and cultural amnesia. In Brixton, while the influence of Pentecostal and traditional churches can be limited to family and individual renewal, there are signs that this may be changing. This groundbreaking work offers insight into the lives of urban Muslim, Christian, and non-religious youth. In times when the politics of immigration and diversity are in flux, it offers a candid appraisal of multiculturalism in practice.

“Daniel Nilsson DeHanas’ empirically driven analysis should be read, marked, learned and inwardly digested by all those who care about our democratic future and the place of second-generation migrants in this. I commend it warmly.”

Grace Davie, Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of Exeter

“Drawing on a much-needed comparative study, this book provides a fascinating insight into the civic integration and political participation of British Muslim, Christian and non-religious young people in a changing Britain.”

John Eade, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Roehampton

Daniel Nilsson DeHanas teaches Political Science and Religion at King’s College London. He is Co-Editor of the journal Religion, State and Society.

Call for Papers: Special Issue: Religion and Gender in Migration to and from Central and Eastern Europe

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Invitation to the Special Issue of Central and Eastern European Migration Review

Religion and Gender in Migration to and from Central and Eastern Europe

Guest editors:

Katarzyna Leszczyńska, Faculty of Humanities, AGH University of Science and Technology

Sylwia Urbańska, Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw

Katarzyna Zielińska, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University

Despite the dynamic development of migration studies in recent decades, the interplay between gender and religion in their impact on migratory processes and related social phenomenahas not so far become a subject of systematic and in-depth research and reflection.This omission can be traced back to the fact that both gender and religion were ‘latecomers’ to the field of migration studies, because they became a subject of systematic analysis only in the 1980s.At the same time, questions relating to interactions between gender, religion and migration are becoming more and more pressing in the light of growing glocalisation and transnationalism, and dramatically intensifying migratory processes, especially migration of persons seeking refugee status from wars and social conflicts.The existing gap in research results in a lack of systematic knowledge of how gendered religious identities and practices as well as religious culture, institutions, and organisationsshape migration flows, motivations,migrant diversified activitiesand migration regimes.

The proposed Special Issue aims at filling this gap in the existing research. Moreover, due to the peculiarity of the CEE region,we regard the question ofthe interplay between gender, religion and migration as being particularly interesting. The culture of most CEE countries, despite post-socialist socioeconomic and political transformations and social change resulting from mass migration, can still be characterised as homogeneous and attached to traditional, conservative gendered values. This conservative shade of the culture is often further strengthened by the influential public role of religion (e.g. the high status and power of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland or Orthodox Church in Romania) and by the low level of secularisation (i.e. prevalence of religious practices and beliefs, support for conservative social values).

The Special Issue will focus on the following topics and general research questions:

  1. How does the interplay between gender and religion influence the migratory experience? How doesreligion shapethe individual and collective experience of migrants, in particular, with regard to the formation of their genderedsocial, class, ethnic, civic and work identities and practices? How do various religious traditions construct and reproduce the gender rules in the symbolic, institutional and experiential dimensions of migration?

  2. How does the activity of religious organisationsand their personnel contribute to creation of various forms of capital supporting (or inhibiting) migrants’ adaptation, integration, andmulticultural identity? How do religious organisations mediate migrants’ adaptation to their new social conditions? How do religious organisationsform bonds and networks of relationships between the cultures of the country of origin and country of settlement?

  3. How (if at all) do the gender patterns and identities embedded in religious organisations transform in various migratory contexts? In which directions do the institutional rules concerning the place of men and women characteristic of conservative gender orders changeas a consequence of migrationinvolvingencounters with multicultural and secular socio-cultural environments as well as with more conservative ones?

We also invite contributions focusing on other topics related to the interaction between religion, gender and migration, because the main purpose of this Special Issue is to showthe recent developments in research on this broad topic in the context of migration to and from theCEE region.

Submission guidelines and related deadlines

10 January 2017 –submission of abstracts

30 March 2017 – submission of articles

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent to: ceemr@uw.edu.pl.

Please note that each article will be subject to a double-blind peer review process and positive reviews will be a condition for the publication.

Guidelines for submission can be found at:www.ceemr.uw.edu.pl/sites/default/files/Instructions_to_authors_5.07.2013_final_2.pdf.

For more information on the Central and Eastern European Migration Review,please visitwww.ceemr.uw.edu.pl.

Call for Papers: Special Issue: Religion and Gender in Migration to and from Central and Eastern Europe

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Invitation to the Special Issue of Central and Eastern European Migration Review

Religion and Gender in Migration to and from Central and Eastern Europe

Guest editors:

Katarzyna Leszczyńska, Faculty of Humanities, AGH University of Science and Technology

Sylwia Urbańska, Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw

Katarzyna Zielińska, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University

Despite the dynamic development of migration studies in recent decades, the interplay between gender and religion in their impact on migratory processes and related social phenomenahas not so far become a subject of systematic and in-depth research and reflection.This omission can be traced back to the fact that both gender and religion were ‘latecomers’ to the field of migration studies, because they became a subject of systematic analysis only in the 1980s.At the same time, questions relating to interactions between gender, religion and migration are becoming more and more pressing in the light of growing glocalisation and transnationalism, and dramatically intensifying migratory processes, especially migration of persons seeking refugee status from wars and social conflicts.The existing gap in research results in a lack of systematic knowledge of how gendered religious identities and practices as well as religious culture, institutions, and organisationsshape migration flows, motivations,migrant diversified activitiesand migration regimes.

The proposed Special Issue aims at filling this gap in the existing research. Moreover, due to the peculiarity of the CEE region,we regard the question ofthe interplay between gender, religion and migration as being particularly interesting. The culture of most CEE countries, despite post-socialist socioeconomic and political transformations and social change resulting from mass migration, can still be characterised as homogeneous and attached to traditional, conservative gendered values. This conservative shade of the culture is often further strengthened by the influential public role of religion (e.g. the high status and power of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland or Orthodox Church in Romania) and by the low level of secularisation (i.e. prevalence of religious practices and beliefs, support for conservative social values).

The Special Issue will focus on the following topics and general research questions:

  1. How does the interplay between gender and religion influence the migratory experience? How doesreligion shapethe individual and collective experience of migrants, in particular, with regard to the formation of their genderedsocial, class, ethnic, civic and work identities and practices? How do various religious traditions construct and reproduce the gender rules in the symbolic, institutional and experiential dimensions of migration?

  2. How does the activity of religious organisationsand their personnel contribute to creation of various forms of capital supporting (or inhibiting) migrants’ adaptation, integration, andmulticultural identity? How do religious organisations mediate migrants’ adaptation to their new social conditions? How do religious organisationsform bonds and networks of relationships between the cultures of the country of origin and country of settlement?

  3. How (if at all) do the gender patterns and identities embedded in religious organisations transform in various migratory contexts? In which directions do the institutional rules concerning the place of men and women characteristic of conservative gender orders changeas a consequence of migrationinvolvingencounters with multicultural and secular socio-cultural environments as well as with more conservative ones?

We also invite contributions focusing on other topics related to the interaction between religion, gender and migration, because the main purpose of this Special Issue is to showthe recent developments in research on this broad topic in the context of migration to and from theCEE region.

Submission guidelines and related deadlines

10 January 2017 –submission of abstracts

30 March 2017 – submission of articles

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent to: ceemr@uw.edu.pl.

Please note that each article will be subject to a double-blind peer review process and positive reviews will be a condition for the publication.

Guidelines for submission can be found at:www.ceemr.uw.edu.pl/sites/default/files/Instructions_to_authors_5.07.2013_final_2.pdf.

For more information on the Central and Eastern European Migration Review,please visitwww.ceemr.uw.edu.pl.

Call for Papers: First International Congress of the Chilean Society for the Sciences of Religions Dialog, education and religious tolerance

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Call for Papers
December 1, 2016

With a total of 22 symposia approved, we invite both Chilean and foreign researchers to present their papers in the diverse thematic lines available. Here you can see the list of symposia: http://www.schcr.cl/simposiosaceptados.html

In order to send a proposal, you must contact the symposium coordinators directly. In case your paper proposal does not fit any of the symposia, it must be sent as a free paper, which will be assessed by the Scientific Committee of the Congress, and included in special symposia (1, 2 and 3) coordinated by the Organizing Committee. The e-mail for sending free papers is: schcr2017@gmail.com

Thematic lines for the symposium papers

  • Theory and methodology in the study of religions
  • Phenomenology of religions
  • Symbology and Art in religion
  • Islam and Islamophobia
  • Modern religious movements
  • Anthropology and sociology of religions
  • History of religious institutions
  • Literature and religion: Sacred texts
  • Religion, politics and gender studies
  • Psychology of religions
  • Education and religion
  • Ecclesiastical law
  • Religions in classical antiquity
  • Church-state relationships in Latin America
  • Archeology and religiosity in prehistoric times
  • Iconography and religious cultural heritage
  • Religions and human rights
  • Far East Religions
  • Philosophy of religions
  • Popular and ethnic religiosity in Latin America

The specific contact information for the symposium organizers is in the attached PDF file.

Call for Papers: First International Congress of the Chilean Society for the Sciences of Religions Dialog, education and religious tolerance

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Call for Papers
December 1, 2016

With a total of 22 symposia approved, we invite both Chilean and foreign researchers to present their papers in the diverse thematic lines available. Here you can see the list of symposia: http://www.schcr.cl/simposiosaceptados.html

In order to send a proposal, you must contact the symposium coordinators directly. In case your paper proposal does not fit any of the symposia, it must be sent as a free paper, which will be assessed by the Scientific Committee of the Congress, and included in special symposia (1, 2 and 3) coordinated by the Organizing Committee. The e-mail for sending free papers is: schcr2017@gmail.com

Thematic lines for the symposium papers

  • Theory and methodology in the study of religions
  • Phenomenology of religions
  • Symbology and Art in religion
  • Islam and Islamophobia
  • Modern religious movements
  • Anthropology and sociology of religions
  • History of religious institutions
  • Literature and religion: Sacred texts
  • Religion, politics and gender studies
  • Psychology of religions
  • Education and religion
  • Ecclesiastical law
  • Religions in classical antiquity
  • Church-state relationships in Latin America
  • Archeology and religiosity in prehistoric times
  • Iconography and religious cultural heritage
  • Religions and human rights
  • Far East Religions
  • Philosophy of religions
  • Popular and ethnic religiosity in Latin America

The specific contact information for the symposium organizers is in the attached PDF file.

Call for Papers: SISR/ISSR Conference “Religion, Cooperation, and Conflict in Diverse Societies” (Lausanne, Switzerland, 4-7 July 2017)

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The online facility for submitting paper proposals for the ISSR Conference “Religion, Cooperation, and Conflict in Diverse Societies” (Lausanne, Switzerland, 4-7 July 2017) is now open and available at this link: https://www.sisr-issr.org/en/conference/the-call-for-papers-for-the-issr-conference-religion-cooperation-and-conflict-in-diverse-societies-lausanne-switzerland-4-7-july-2017-is-now-open-the-deadline-for-submitting-paper-proposals

There, you can find a document describing the sessions (list of titles below).   Please have a look and decide to which session you would like to submit your paper. When submitting the paper, please use the same link and the online form. The proposal (title and abstract up to 250 words) should be only in one language – English or French – in which you would like to present your paper.  Please note that you can submit only one paper proposal!

The deadline for submitting paper proposals is 10 January 2017.

For more information on the conference: https://wp.unil.ch/issr2017conference

List of Session Titles:


STS #1
Convener(s) Jörg Stolz, David Voas, Pierre Bréchon
Title Religiosity : Analysis of international and national quantitative surveys

STS #2
Convener(s) Irene Becci, Marian Burchardt, Mariachiara Giorda
Title Reshaping the secular in religious superdiverse societies

STS #3
Convener(s) Géraldine Mossière, Christophe Monnot
Title Conversion and socio-political commitment

STS #4
Convener(s) Pascal Tanner
Title Diversity within Non-Religion

STS #5
Convener(s) Jens Koehrsen, Alexandre Grandjean
Title Turning «green»: When religious actors get involved in sustainability agendas

STS #6
Convener(s) Roberto Cipriani
Title Homosexuality and religion

STS #7
Convener(s) Sarah-Jane Page, Anna Halafoff
Title Global Flows of Contemporary Buddhism

STS #8
Convener(s) Stéphanie Tremblay, Marie-Andrée Roy
Title Religious Diversity: Between the Majority Perceptions and Strategies of Religious Groups

STS #9
Convener(s) Kati Tervo-Niemelä
Title Religion and non-religion across generations

STS #10
Convener(s) Roberto M.C. Motta, Claude Ravelet, Léa Freitas Perez
Title Religious and Cultural Syncretism, Interpenetration, Fundamentalism, Intolerance, and Conflict in Brazil, France and Elsewhere: Comparative Views

STS #11
Convener(s) Sylvie Poirier, Françoise Dussart
Title Indigenous Contemporary Religiosities. Between Solidarity, Contestation, Convergence and Renewal

STS #12
Convener(s) Audrey Lim
Title Religion’s use of social media in society

STS #13
Convener(s) Yaghoob Foroutan
Title Muslims in the West: Patterns and Differentials

STS #14
Convener(s) Mina Shojaee, Yaghoob Foroutan
Title Gender and Religion: Correlates and Causes

STS #15
Convener(s) David Lehmann
Title Religion of the others : mimicry and ritual reworking

STS #16 Abstract
Convener(s) Mark R. Mullins
Title Neo-nationalism, Politics, and Religion in the Public Sphere in Japan and East Asia

STS #17
Convener(s) Gang-Hua Fan
Title Religiosity and Subjective Well-Being

STS #18
Convener(s) Wei-hsian Chi, Yoshihide Sakurai
Title Media and Religion in East Asia

STS #19
Convener(s) Julia Martínez-Ariño
Title Governing religious diversity and conflict in the city

STS #20
Convener(s) Cristina Rocha, Paul Freston, Kathleen Openshaw
Title Global Pentecostal Charismatic Christianities

STS #21
Convener(s) Norihito Takahashi, Tatsuya Shirahase
Title The Multicultural Engagement of Religious Organisations in the East Asian Context

STS #22
Convener(s) Elisabeth Arweck
Title Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity

STS #23
Convener(s) Philip Hughes
Title Pentecostalism, cooperation and conflict in diverse societies

STS #24
Convener(s) Tadaatsu Tajima, Yu-shuang Yao
Title New Religious Movements and Established Religions vs. Globalisation/Glocalisation in the Asia Context

STS #25
Convener(s) Magdalena Nordin, Lene Kühle
Title Religion in public institutions

STS #26
Convener(s) Nonka Bogomilova Todorova
Title “God’s Chosen Nation”: A Mythological Construct and Conflict-generating Potential

STS #27
Convener(s) Mia Lövheim
Title Media and Religious Diversity; conflict and cooperation

STS #28
Convener(s) Elisabeth Arweck
Title Religious Socialisation and Education: Ways to Promote Co-operation and Reduce Conflict in Diverse Societies?

STS #29
Convener(s) Zoran Matevski
Title Faith Communities and Religious Groups and the Principle of Religious Tolerance within South-Eastern Europe

STS #30
Convener(s) Elena Lisovskaya
Title Towards a sociology of the icon and iconography

STS #31
Convener(s) Conrad Hackett
Title Religion and educational attainment around the world

STS #32
Convener(s) Conrad Hackett
Title Opportunities and Challenges in Studying Asian Religions

STS #33
Convener(s) Kees de Groot
Title Religion in Prison

STS #34
Convener(s) Michele Dillon
Title Post-secular Catholicism

STS #35
Convener(s) Vyacheslav Karpov
Title Secularizations and Counter-secularizations: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives.

STS #36
Convener(s) Giuseppe Giordan, Siniša Zrinščak
Title Religions and Human Rights

STS #37
Convener(s) Yoshihide Sakurai, Kikuko Hirahuji
Title Religious Research and Religious Education in Contemporary Asia-Pacific Regions

STS #38
Convener(s) Heiner Meulemann
Title Celebration of life course transitions: A cultural residuum of religion after secularization

STS #39
Convener(s) Roberto Cipriani
Title Diffused Religion. Beyond secularization

STS #40
Convener(s) Torkel Brekke
Title Love thy neighbour? The roles of Christianity in shaping attitudes and policies to Muslim immigrants in Europe

STS #41
Convener(s) Victor Roudometof
Title The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Churches

STS #42
Convener(s) Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun
Title Judaism, judaicities. Mutations and evolutions of the contemporary jewish world

STS #43
Convener(s) Suzana Ramos Coutinho
Title Migration, Religion and Identity

STS #44
Convener(s) Dorota Hall, Dinka Marinović Jerolimov
Title “Refugee crisis” in Central and Eastern Europe

STS #45
Convener(s) Juliette Galonnier
Title Muslims and Race in Europe

STS #46
Convener(s) Vivarelli Clementine, Massignon Bérengère
Title Atheisms and religions in conflict ? Beliefs, paths, organisations

STS #47
Convener(s) Robert Dixon
Title Current Concerns in Parish and Congregational Research

STS #48
Convener(s) Pål Ketil Botvar, Ann Kristin Gresaker
Title Religion and humor – negotiation and conflict

STS #49
Convener(s) Irena Borowik, Katarzyna Zielinska
Title Religion in the public sphere: social discourses on biopolitics

STS #50
Convener(s) Frank Usarski, Edin Sued Abumanssur
Title Cooperation and conflicts among Latin American Religions

STS #51
Convener(s) Yannick Fer, Véronique Altglas, Hicham Benaissa, Juliette Galonnier, Gwendoline Malogne-Fer
Title Agenda for a Critical Sociology of Religion: subjective experience and social determinants

STS #52
Convener(s) Antonius Liedhegener, Anastas Odermatt, Conrad Hackett
Title Contested Religious Belonging in Europe. Measuring Old Traditions and New Identities in Comparative Perspective

STS #53
Convener(s) Anna Halafoff, Gary Bouma, Elisabeth Arweck
Title Worldviews of Millennials: Education, Social Inclusion and Countering Violent Extremism

STS #54
Convener(s) Louis Audet Gosselin
Title Media and Religious Radicalization: Gatekeeping and the Construction of Extremism

STS #55
Convener(s) Olaf Glöckner, Karine Michel
Title Conflicts, cooperation and completion among Jewish religious groups worldwide

STS #56
Convener(s) Andrea Rota, Rafael Walthert
Title Religious communities: Between public participation and internal tension

STS #57
Convener(s) Effie Fokas, Alexia Mitsikostas
Title The European Court of Human Rights at the Grassroots Level: exploring the Court’s role in governing religion-related tensions on the ground

STS #58
Convener(s) Heinrich W. Schäfer, Jens Koehrsen, Cecilia A Delgado-Molina
Title Religion and Social Inequality: Empirical Insights and Theoretical Reflections

STS #59
Convener(s) Rodrigo Toniol, Brenda Poveda Carranza, Mari Sol Garcia Somoza
Title Body, Politics and Religion. Theoretical approach, methodological articulations and ethnographic studies in Latin America

STS #60
Convener(s) Ludovic Bertina, Anahita Grisoni, Jean Chamel, Mathieu Gervais, Luis Martinez Andrade
Title Ecology, religions and spiritualities: from socio-environmental conflicts to cosmopolitcs

STS #61
Convener(s) Leni Franken, Sivane Hirsch
Title Religion and education in contemporary plural societies: a matter of neutrality?

STS #62
Convener(s) Titus Hjelm, James V. Spickard
Title Social Theory and Religion

STS #63
Convener(s) Inger Furseth
Title Religious Radicalism and Extremism

STS #64
Convener(s) Thea D. Boldt, Hubert Knoblauch
Title Religion as Communication: Materiality, Mediatization and Objectivation

STS #65
Convener(s) Uta Karstein, Thomas Schmidt-Lux
Title Architecture as a Medium of Religious Conflicts

STS #66
Convener(s) Carlo Nardella
Title Pope Francis and the Crisis

STS #67
Convener(s) Sara Teinturier
Title Schools and religions : methodological challenges

STS #68
Convener(s) Anne Lancien
Title “Laicity”: an answer to conflicts in diverse societies?

STS #69
Convener(s) Igor Bahovec
Title Thomas Luckmann, Religion and Society: 50 Years of The Invisible Religion

NRF #1
Convener(s) Mari Sol Garcia Somoza
Title Body, Politics and Religion. Theoretical approach, methodological articulations and ethnographic studies in Latin America

Public Discussion: Religious Aspects & Consequences of the U.S. Election (University of Sherbrooke, en français)

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Evénement : La culture politique américaine à la lumière des élections présidentielles 2016 : Le religieux menace-t-il la licité et la neutralité de l’État ?

Date : Le mercredi 16 novembre 2016

Heure : De 14 h  à 17 h

Lieu : Campus principal de Sherbrooke, Balcon du Foyer du Mont-Orford – Centre culturel

Les présidentielles américaines du 8 novembre constituent l’un des événements politiques majeurs de l’année 2016. Une semaine après les résultats, le Centre de recherche Société, droit et religion de l’Université de Sherbrooke (SoDRUS) tiendra une table ronde qui offrira des clés essentielles pour la compréhension des différentes formes et expressions du religieux dans les discours, les actes et les débats durant la course présidentielle à la Maison-Blanche. À cette table ronde seront présentées et analysées les imbrications du religieux, du politique et du socio-culturel des élections américaines entre les démocrates et les républicains.

Le débat sera enrichi par les contributions de différents experts de la politique américaine, notamment, la diplomate Anne Leahy (Université McGill), les professeurs Gilles Vandal(Université de Sherbrooke), Donald Cuccioletta (Université du Québec à Montréal), le chargé de cours Mohammed Ourya (Université de Sherbrooke), sous la modération du professeur Sami Aoun (Université de Sherbrooke).

Tous concernés par les présidentielles américaines, ces experts aborderont,  tour à tour, entre autres, l’importance du catholicisme dans la politique publique et la politique étrangère américaine, les dimensions éthiques et religieuses des décisions de Barak Obama et celles que Mme Clinton priorisera, des conséquences du résultat des élections sur le Canada, l’islam étasunien et l’islam aux États-Unis entre les considérations de la démocratie libérale et les alliances géopolitiques.

New Book: Buddhism in America: Global Religion, Local Contexts

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Buddhism in America: Global Religion, Local Contexts
Bloombury, 2016
http://bloomsbury.com/uk/buddhism-in-america-9781472581938/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Buddhism%20in%20America&utm_campaign=IC-SOLUS_Buddhism%20in%20America_OCT%2016_UK/

About Buddhism in America

Buddhism in America provides the most comprehensive and up to date survey of the diverse landscape of US Buddhist traditions, their history and development, and current methodological trends in the study of Buddhism in the West, located within the translocal flow of global Buddhist culture.

Divided into three parts (Histories; Traditions; Frames), this introduction traces Buddhism’s history and encounter with North American culture, charts the landscape of US Buddhist communities, and engages current methodological and theoretical developments in the field. The volume includes:

  • – A short introduction to Buddhism
  • – A historical survey from the 19th century to the present
  • – Coverage of contemporary US Buddhist communities, including Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana

Theoretical and methodological issues and debates covered include:

  • – Social, political and environmental engagement
  • – Race, feminist, and queer theories of Buddhism
  • – Secular Buddhism, digital Buddhism, and modernity
  • – Popular culture, media, and the arts

Pedagogical tools include chapter summaries, discussion questions, images and maps, a glossary, and case studies. The book’s website provides recommended further resources including websites, books and films, organized by chapter. With individual chapters which can stand on their own and be  assigned out of sequence, Buddhism in America is the ideal resource for courses on Buddhism in America, American Religious History, and Introduction to Buddhism.

Post-Doc: “Striking from the Margins: Religion, State and Disintegration in the Middle East”

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Dear Friends of the CEU Center for Religious Studies,

The CEU Center for Religious Studies is pleased to announce a call for applications for the project Striking from the Margins: Religion, State and Disintegration in the Middle East, which launched this September 2016.

Please find attached the call for applications.

Please feel free to pass this on to anyone you feel might have an interest in applying to distributing to other interested parties.

You can find out more about the project on our website:  https://religion.ceu.edu/new-research-project-launched-ceu-striking-margins-religion-state-and-disintegration-middle-east.

Please let me know if I can provide you with any further details. 

Apologies for any cross-posting.

Best regards,

Esther 

Esther Holbrook          

Coordinator

Center for Religious Studies

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Central European University

1051 Budapest, Nador u. 11 Room 211
Phone: +36 1  327-3000 ex.2170
Fax: +36 1 327-3191

www.religion.ceu.edu

Job Opening in Christian and Islamic Studies, Louvain

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An academic position in Christian and Islamic studies (1 EFT)

http://www.uclouvain.be/en-emploi-academiques.html

Vacancy Reference : 10731 / TECO 001 / 2017 (to be quoted in any correspondence)

The Université catholique de Louvain invites applications for a tenure track or tenured full time position in

Christian and Islamic studies

The successful candidate will carry out research in the field of dialogue between Christianity and Islam. He or she will have teaching assignments in both Christian theology and Islamic studies.

Special qualification

An university training in islamic studies is an asset.

Starting date : 1st  September, 2017

Further information :
Professor Eric Gaziaux, dean TECO – doyen-teco@uclouvain.be
Professor Louis-Léon Christians, research director RSCS  – president-rscs@uclouvain.be

Localization :

Humanities Sector
Faculty of Theology

(http://www.uclouvain.be/en-teco.html)
Religions, Spiritualities, Cultures, Societies (http://www.uclouvain.be/en-rscs.html) 

General conditions

Tasks : the applicant will:
– be responsible for teaching courses at all study levels (i.e. undergraduate and postgraduate), as well as in programmes of continuing education;
– supervise the final diploma research (i.e. theses) of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as PhD students;
– be involved in (and/or supervise, promote) research programmes;
– contribute to the international visibility of the University through teaching and research excellence;
– contribute to activities of the University with a societal impact in the fields of the economy, socio-cultural changes or cooperation with developing countries.

Qualifications : the applicant must have
– a PhD degree in Christian theology or any related discipline;
– a significant scientific record with international publications;
– either  studied abroad for an extensive period or have had substantial experience outside UCL;
– experience in and the aptitude for teaching at university level;
– the capacity to work within a team of teachers and to integrate research findings into teaching;
– creativity and must be open to teaching innovation and interdisciplinarity;
– the capacities required to undertake academic research at a high level and to advise, or lead, a research team;
– good knowledge of both spoken and written French and English. If this is not the case, the applicant accept to learn French and/or English in order to be able to teach in French and English within 2 years. Fluency in other languages is an additional advantage.

Apply to this job now…