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Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies Summer Session

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WE ARE PLEASED TO INVITE YOU AND YOUR INSTITUTION TO  THE OXFORD SYMPOSIUM ON RELIGIOUS STUDIES TO BE HELD AUGUST 1–3.
You may present a paper, or you may wish to attend as an observer/panel member. The symposium is interdisciplinary and has a broad-based theme but will include the special topic session “Do You Need God to Be Good?”  We welcome submissions on religion and ethics.
The Summer Session will be held at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies,  located on St Giles’ near the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology.
The session will be hosted by Canon Brian Mountford MBE, former Vicar of St Mary’s. Dr Mountford is a Fellow of St Hilda’s College in the University of Oxford.
The abstract submission deadline for the August session is 10 July.
Consult the Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies website for registration deadlines and other information.
Note that abstract submissions for the December 5–7 Session is also open.

The 24th Nordic Conference in the Sociology of Religion (NCSR 2018)

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The 24th Nordic Conference in the Sociology of Religion (NCSR 2018)

 August 1-3, 2018 in Oslo, Norway.

Growing religious diversity characterizes most countries across the world, often linked to the globalization of migration, politics, economies, and the media. The diversity offers new challenges of managing religion in countries that previously were more religiously homogenous.

 The 24th Nordic Conference for Sociology of Religion seeks a more thorough understanding, theoretically as well as empirically, of religion, politics, and boundaries. While sociologists often have attempted to understand these developments in terms of single dimension theories, we would like to find out how this complexity is part of processes of change and continuity in contemporary society.

 We invite papers that focus on these and other topics in the sociology of religion.

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Deadlines:

 

*                        Paper proposals are due on April 6. 2018

*                        Decision Notification: April 30. 2018

*                        Registration open: April 30. 2018

*                        Registration closes: June 15. 2018

 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AT THE CONFERENCE:  

KEYNOTE #1

Mark Juergensmeyer,

University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

The Global Rise of Religious Violence.

 KEYNOTE #2

Line

Nyhagen,

Reader in sociology, Loughborough University, UK

Contestations of Feminism, Secularism and Religion.

 KEYNOTE #3

Lorne

Dawson,

University of Waterloo,

Canada

 Understanding the Role of Religion in the Radicalization of Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq.

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Reconfiguring Muslim pilgrimage through women’s new mobilities

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Call for Papers (deadline April 9)
EASA Panel 100: Migration, tourism, business: Reconfiguring Muslim pilgrimage through the lens of women’s new mobilities cf. https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6707

Short abstract

In this panel, possibilities to reconfigure modern Muslim pilgrimage through women’s new mobilities will be discussed. The main focus will lie on a new sense of reflecting Muslim pilgrimage in relation to globalized mobility, commercialization and processes of feminization.

Long abstract

The explosive growth of the Mecca pilgrimage is a distinctively Muslim contribution to globalization with far-reaching political, economic and social ramifications. Integrated into local tourism industries, Meccan, but also local pilgrimage gets absorbed by a market-driven economy and Islamic consumerism. The latter is above all served by the new urban middle -classes in many parts of the Muslim world including diaspora societies in Europe. These new Muslim middle-classes are, in turn, mainly involved in the commodification and marketization of the Hajj and the Umrah pilgrimage and certain local pilgrimage sites. Most strikingly, in some parts of Asia, and beyond, transnational labor migration, mobile entrepreneurship and new urban middle-class religiosities are highly feminized.

Taking these interlinkages between globalized mobility, commercialization as well as processes of feminization as a starting point, the panel aims at reconfiguring our understanding of modern Muslim pilgrimage through the lens of women’s new mobilities. We welcome papers with a gender perspective on topics such as moral economies, social mobility/class matters, evolving job markets for women in the Mecca pilgrimage business, or the re-framing of religious experience through transport infrastructure, consumerism and new media technologies. We also invite papers addressing the related processes of ‘moving’, ‘dwelling’ and ‘crossing’ in order to tackle the ‘rootedness’ of Muslim women’s pilgrimage experiences in various backgrounds and contexts. Finally, we will look at the long-term implications of Muslim women’s new mobilities on the refashioning of identity and multiple forms of belonging.

 

Manja Stephan-Emmrich; Marjo Buitelaar; Viola Thimm

Chapter: Does European Islam Think? By Mohammed Hashas 2018

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This may interest some of you.
 

“Does European Islam Think?” By Mohammed Hashas

Abstract:
In this chapter I present two major divergent lines of thought that read European Islam differently, though this difference has hardly been problematised and remarked before, nor has it been put face to face in a scholarly debate. This chapter then presents the views of two major scholars of Islam and Muslims in Europe: those of the French scholar Olivier Roy, and those of the Danish scholar Jørgen S. Nielsen. My own reading of European Islam makes me stand with the latter on his position: European Muslims are making their own theology; it is a pluralist theology in progress. It may even be inspiring to the Arab-Islamic world.
Mohammed Hashas, “Does European Islam Think?” In Niels Valdemar Vinding, Egdūnas Račius, and Jörn Thielmann, eds., Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe: Essays in Honour of Jørgen S. Nielsen (Brill, 2018), pp. 35-49.
The chapter is attached as pdf

Music workshop

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WORKSHOP

WORKSHOP INTRODUCING THE ‘LIVING IN HARMONY’ MUSIC PROJECT AT THE WOOLF INSTITUTE AND OTHER MUSIC PROJECTS WITH AN INTERFAITH ELEMENT

23 APRIL 2018, 2.00PM
WOOLF INSTITUTE, MADINGLEY ROAD,
CAMBRIDGE CB3 0UB

http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/events

Please note the Woolf’s new contact details

Woolf Institute
Madingley Road
Cambridge
CB3 0UB

Office telephone: 01223 761977
Mobile telephone: 07859 883887

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Donnerska institutets pris 2018/Donner Institute Prize 2018

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The Donner Institute Prize for Outstanding Research into Religion 2018

The Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History hereby calls for nominations for its annual prize for outstanding research into religion. The nominations should be submitted by 31 May 2018. The prize announcement is posted on our website: https://www.donnerinstitute.fi/current-3/nominate-a-candidate-for-the-2018-donner-research-prize/

Åbo/Turku, 1 April 2018

Ruth Illman, Director
The Donner Institute

Religion and the European Court of Human Rights

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Grassrootsmobilise Public Event & Conference

3-4 May 2018 – Athens, Greece

The European public square has, in the last twenty-five years and increasingly so, been inundated with controversies and debates around the place of religion in the public sphere. Against this backdrop the European Court of Human Rights has emerged to add its own voice and, in so doing, it has significantly influenced the terms of the debates.

This event brings together former ECtHR judges and scholars to debate the question of whether the Court has gone too far, or not far enough, in its interventions on religion-related matters. The event is organised under the auspices of the European Research Council-funded Grassrootsmobilise Research Programme led by Dr. Effie Fokas and hosted by the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). This event precedes a day-long conference showcasing research results which, in turn, will be followed by the presentation of the book The Kokkinakis Papers: Taking Stock of 25 years of ECHR Jurisprudence on Freedom of Religion or Belief.

We hope many of you will join us!

Public Event

Religion and Secularism:

does the Court go too far – or not far enough?

Thursday, 3 May 2018, 17:30-20:00, Acropolis Museum

SPEAKERS: Professor Eva Brems, Judge Ann Power-Forde,
                  Judge Christos Rozakis, Professor Joseph H. H. Weiler


Conference 

Between state and citizen:

religion at the ECtHR

Friday, 4 May 2018, 09:30-19:00, Aigli Zappeiou

PARTICIPANTS
Nicos Alivizatos
Dia Anagnostou
Liviu Andreescu
Pasquale Annicchino
Panos Bitsaxis
Grace Davie
Panayote Dimitras
Cole Durham
Malcolm Evans
Silvio Ferrari
Effie Fokas
Alberta Giorgi
Jeremy Gunn
Lisa Harms		 Yannis Ktistakis
Margarita Markoviti
Ronan McCrea
Christopher McCrudden
Ceren Ozgul
Mihai Popa
Grégor Puppinck
Julie Ringelheim
Ahmed Shaheed
Brett Scharffs
Renáta Uitz
Marco Ventura
Lucy Vickers
Andrea Williams

Both the event and the conference are free and open to all, but conference participants must register by 27 April 2018.


FULL PROGRAMME & PARTICIPANT LIST (PDF)

REGISTRATION

*Certificates of participation will be available upon request.

Contact
Alexia Mitsikostas (Programme Manager)

Studies in Honor of Professor Saba Mahmood

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Rethinking Politics and Religion: Studies in Honor of Professor Saba Mahmood

                                               Special issue of Sociology of Islam

http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/22131418

https://brill.com/view/journals/soi/soi-overview.xml

On the sad news of the passing of Saba Mahmood, the editorial board of the journal Sociology of Islam has decided to organize a special issue to honor the work and legacy of our distinguished colleague for the study of global politics and religion.

Saba Mahmood’s anthropological work shifted debates on secularism and religion, gender and politics, the rights of religious minorities, and the impact of colonialism in the Middle East. Her conceptual engagement with these pertinent social and political issues, however, has opened up broader questions about the politics of religious difference in a secular age beyond the Middle East and Muslim majority countries. This special issue of Sociology of Islam intends to bring to the fore the scope of these contributions in order to assess the cross-disciplinary and trans–regional magnitude of her work. The editorial board calls for papers on the following and related subjects in the work of Saba Mahmood:

–          Agency and submission;

–          Body/Embodiment;

–          Citizenship;

–          Ethics;

–          Feminist Theory;

–          Gender;

–          Hermeneutics;

–          Law and the State;

–          Postcolonialism/Postcoloniality;

–          Religious freedom;

–          Religious difference;

–          Secularism/Secularity;

–          Sovereignty;

–          Subject formation;

–          The minority condition.

If you are interested in contributing to this special issue, please send a 500-word abstract to Sultan Doughan (sultan_doughan@berkeley.edu) and Jean-Michel Landry (jean-michel.landry@mcgill.ca) by 30 April 2018. We acknowledge receipt of all emails and will reply to all. If you do not receive a reply, please resend your abstract. Please include the following in your email:

–          Author name;

–          Affiliation;

–          email address;

–          abstract in Word format;

–          a short CV.

Acceptance notices will be sent by 15 May 2018. Full articles are due 30 September 2018. The special issue will come out in early 2019 (2019/2). All articles must follow the guidelines provided in the attachment to this email.

EASA Panel Call – Houses and Domestic Space in the Diaspora

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European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)

15th Biannual Conference – Staying, Moving, Settling

Stockholm University, 14th – 17th August 2018

https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2018/

 

PANEL P115 – Call

Houses and Domestic Space in the Diaspora

Materiality, Senses and Temporalities in Migrants’ Dwellings

Convenors:

Ester Gallo, University of Trento ester.gallo@unitn.it

Henrike Donner, Goldsmiths, University of London  H.Donner@gold.ac.uk

While images of stillness arouse when thinking of houses, the material, relational and symbolic significance of domestic space is implicated in a complex way in population movements. Houses are reference point in migrants’ home making but their meanings are also transformed and in the diaspora. Houses mirror migrants’ search of stability and yet also their dilemmas about the future, tensions in kinship relations, and ambivalent engagement to places. They do not stand only for the ‘privacy’ of domestic life, but are actively engaged in the challenges posed by political histories and present conflicts. Domestic materiality and temporality constitute a relevant and yet understudied context where to apprehend the intersections between macro-forces (market economy, political histories, gendered migration trends) and micro-practices (consumption, object display, daily spatial routines, and recalling) underpinning migration. We explore the relation between moving, settling and house making among diasporic population, and address the following questions:

 How does diaspora transform the meanings of houses among mobile population?

 What experiences of mobility (or immobility) are recalled, made visible or silenced through domestic space?

 What temporal engagements are disclosed through migrants’ material/relational organization of houses?

 What do diasporic houses say about people engagement with wider political histories of displacement and about (trans) national, ethnic or religious belonging?

  To what extent, and how, the social life of houses mirror changes in gender and class relations, and in the related meanings of femininity/masculinity?

We welcome papers addressing these questions through the analysis of different socio-geographical contexts and comparatively.

To Submit:https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6548

A short abstract of fewer than 300 characters; a long abstract of fewer than 250 words.  

Deadline: 9th April. 

Ester Gallo, PhD

Lecturer in Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Social Research
Via Verdi 26
38122 Trento, Italy
2017 The Fall of Gods. Memory, Kinship and Middle Classes in South India. Oxford University Press
2016 (with F.Scrinzi) Migration, Masculinities and Reproductive Labour. Men of the Home. Palgrave MacMillan
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New Book: Asian Migrants and Religious Experience

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Dear Colleagues,

I am happy to announce the publication of our edited volume, Asian Migrants and Religious Experience. From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility, by Amsterdam University Press.

Bernardo Brown & Brenda Yeoh
Contributions by:
Arkotong Longkumer
Amanda Lucia
Kenneth Dean
Silvia Vignato
Bubbles Asor
Ester Gallo
Alexander Horstmann
Bernardo Brown
Brenda Yeoh
Jagath Pathirage
Weishan Huang
Janet Hoskins

Asian Migrants and Religious Experience

FROM MISSIONARY JOURNEYS TO LABOR MOBILIT

EDITED BY BERNARDO BROWN AND BRENDA S.A. YEOH

Distributed for Amsterdam University Press

312 pages | 21 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2018
Typically, scholars approach migrants’ religions as a safeguard of cultural identity, something that connects migrants to their communities of origin. This ethnographic anthology challenges that position by reframing the religious experiences of migrants as a transformative force capable of refashioning narratives of displacement into journeys of spiritual awakening and missionary calling. These essays explore migrants’ motivations in support of an argument that to travel inspires a search for new meaning in religion.


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Bernardo E. Brown, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Society, Culture and Media
International Christian University