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Journal Announcement: Politics and Religion Journal (Vol. 9, No. 2) is now available online

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Dear members of ISA’s RC 22,
it is my great pleasure to inform you that the new issue of the Politics and Religion Journal (PRJ) is now available!  Topic of this issue is “Politics and Religion in Europe”, with Dr. Roberto Cipriani as a guest editor.
You can find more information about this issue on the IPSA’s website, while the direct link to the articles is available on the Journal’s web page.
On behalf of the PRJ,
Marko Vekovic

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Journal Announcement – Approaching Religion Vol. 5/2: Systems thinking spirituality and wisdom: Perspectives on Ken Wilber

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We are happy to announce the publication of

Approaching Religion Vol. 5/2 (November, 2015)
Theme: Systems thinking sprituality and wisdom: Perspectives on Ken Wilber

Available at: www.abo.fi/approachingreligion

The current issue consists of articles based on presentations given at the seminar on Ken Wilber’s philosophy arranged by Professor Matti Kamppinen at the University of Turku, Finland in October, 2014.

AR is an open access journal published by the Donner Institute in Åbo, Finland. Its purpose is to publish current research on religion and culture and to offer a platform for scholarly co-operation and debate within the field. The articles have been selected on the basis of peer-review.

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CFP: Religion and Migration, special issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society

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Call for papers, J-RaT Ausgabe 4:
Religion and Migration

The fourth issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and
Transformation in Contemporary Society (J-RaT) focuses particularly on
the topic of Religion and Migration and its dynamics within the European
and global context.

According to the societal and global-political topicality, the issue
aims at identifying and analyzing current and future challenges and
questions for academic research and education, politics and society,
churches and religious institutions, and communities. Based on the
latest research results and political dynamics the contributions should
provide an interdisciplinary insight into the topic and should
initialize future perspectives for academic research and social
practice. We encourage the submission of articles which approach the
topic from social, cultural, political, educational and religious
sciences as well as from a religious-theological point of view. The
relationship between religion and migration will become a decisive issue
in the next decades, and will assume an increasingly important role in
the processes of social, religious and political transformation. In
order to approach this subject in all of its aspects it is necessary to
develop a basic scientific research.

Therefore the papers should deal with the following questions:

• Which contemporary and prospective (social, political, economical,
cultural, religious)challenges can be identified in the context of
migration, flight and asylum?
• Which meaning and which tasks do religion and religiosity, churches
and religious institutions/communities have in this context? Which role
do they play? Which role can/should they play?
• How do these challenges look like from the perspective of religious
institutions/communities and churches?
• Based on latest research results of the issue: What are the future
research questions in the context of religion and migration? What could
be the contribution of the particular academic discipline in relation to
the current challenges?

These questions are kept deliberately broad to faciltitate the diversity
of current challenges on all levels of society as well as on a local and
global level.

In a addition to this main area, J-RaT accepts also free contributions
provided that they focus in principle on the subject matter of the
journal. This is particularly the growing complexity of the global
context, the paradigmatic changes in the construction of social
meanings, the juridical challenges and their connection with religious
transformations.

Procedure

Please send your contribution to regina.polak@univie.ac.at by 10th
January2016.

After a first feedback you will be kindly asked to upload your
contribution to https://ojs.univie.ac.at/index.php/RAT by 19th February
2016.

The articles should have usually 8.000 – 15.000 words and will be
subject to a double-blind peer review by two anonymous reviewers. Volume
4 of J-RaT will be published in September 2016.

Formalia

Please consider the following guidelines:

• The paper must be an initial publication which has not been
published in any other medium.
• It must focus on the aim of J-RaT.
• Papers can be submitted in English, German, Spanish or Italian.
• Please send your paper as MS Word (.DOC) oder Rich Text Format (.RTF);
• Tables, charts and graphs have to be submitted separately as TIFF,
JPG or PDF.
• The authors have to observe the editorial guidelines of the
publishing company V&R unipress.

The authors should include a cover letter with their manuscript, which
states explicitly that the manuscript has not been previously published
in any language anywhere and that it is not under simultaneous
consideration or in press by another journal. The letter should contain
the full name (submitted by), the full title of the article and a short
title, the full list of authors with affiliations, e-mail, contact
address, telephone/fax numbers of the corresponding author, number of
attached files, if there is more than one.

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New special issue of New Diversities “Engaging with the Other: Religion, Identity, and Politics in the Mediterranean”

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Engaging with the Other: Religion, Identity, and Politics in the Mediterranean

Guest Editors: Avi Astor (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) & Mar Griera (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

open access:

http://newdiversities.mmg.mpg.de/?page_id=971

LIST OF CONTENTS

Engaging with the Other: Religion, Identity, and Politics in the Mediterranean
by Avi Astor and Mar Griera (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
read the full article
Abstract and Keywords

Historical Trajectories and Ambivalences of Turkish Minority Discourse
by Markus Dressler (Bayreuth University)
read the full article
Abstract and Keywords

Toleration of Religious Diversity in a Small Island State
by Mary Darmanin (University of Malta)
read the full article
Abstract and Keywords

Banal, Benign or Pernicious? Religion and National Identity from the Perspective of Religious Minorities in Greece
by Effie Fokas (Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, ELIAMEP and Hellenic Observatory, LSE)
read the full article
Abstract and Keywords

Authorizing Religious Conversion in Administrative Courts: Law, Rights, and Secular Indeterminacy
by Mona Oraby (Northwestern University)
read the full article
Abstract and Keywords

Religious Diversity in Italy and the Impact on Education: The History of a Failure
by Maria Chiara Giorda (Università di Milano – Bicocca)
read the full article
Abstract and Keywords

Completing the Religious Transition? Catholics and Muslims Navigate Secularism in Democratic Spain
by Aitana Guia (European University Institute, Florence)
read the full article
Abstract and Keywords

Religion and Migration in Morocco: Governability and Diaspora
by Ana I. Planet Contreras (Workshop of International Mediterranean Studies (TEIM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and
Miguel Hernando de Larramendi Martinez (Study Group on Arab and Muslim Societies (GRESAM), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)
read the full article
Abstract and Keywords

Open forum

Producing Interculturality: Repertoires, Strategies and Spaces
by Nuno Oliveira (Lisbon University Institute)
read the full article
Abstract and Keywords


Dr Marian Burchardt
Post-doctoral Researcher, Editor-in-Chief of Diversities
 
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Tel.: +49/0 551 4956-113, Fax +49/0 551 4956-170

New Book: 

Multiple Secularities beyond the West, ed. M. Burchardt, M. Wohlrab-Sahr and Matthias Middell, Boston & Berlin: de Gruyter. 2015.

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Call for Submissions: Is Transreligious Theology Possible?

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CALL FOR PAPERS

 

for the topical issue of Open Theology journal

 

 

 

IS TRANSRELIGIOUS THEOLOGY POSSIBLE?

 

 

 

Open Theology invites submissions for the topical issue ‘Is Transreligious Theology Possible?’ under the general editorship of Dr. Jerry L. Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder and the National Endowment for the Humanities (retired).

 

Theology has been understood as the articulation of truths within one’s own religion, with its scriptures and traditions providing authoritative sources and methods. Hence there has been Christian theology, Hindu theology, etc., but no such thing as Theology per se. At the same time, it has become increasingly evident to many religious scholars that there is truth in more than one tradition and that an adequate understanding of the divine reality must include those truths. Do we need to start theologizing in a way that is not circumscribed by the boundaries of an established religion? If so, what will take the place of the triad of scripture, tradition, and experience which normally inform and constrain theological thinking? What spiritual and intellectual resources can be brought to bear? Are there already fruitful examples of transreligious thinking that point the way? Are there other promising avenues that have not yet been explored?

 

The editor welcomes scholarly studies and thought pieces that take one or more of these and related questions into whatever directions contributors find most theologically urgent.

 

Authors publishing their articles in the special issue will benefit from:

 

·         transparent, comprehensive and fast peer review

 

·         efficient route to fast-track publication and full advantage of De Gruyter Open’s e-technology,

 

·         no publication fees,

 

·         free language assistance for authors from non-English speaking regions.

 

 

 

HOW TO SUBMIT?

 

Submissions are due January 21, 2016. To submit an article for the special issue of Open Theology, authors are asked to access the on-line submission system at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/openth/ 

 

Please choose as article type: “Special Issue Article: Transreligious Theology”.

 

All contributions will undergo critical review before being accepted for publication.

 

 

 

Further questions about this thematic issue can be addressed to Dr. Jerry L. Martin at jerry.martin@verizon.net.  In case of technical questions, please contact journal Managing Editor Dr. Katarzyna Tempczyk at katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyteropen.com.

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CFP: Religion and Racism – Intercultural Perspectives

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CALL FOR PAPERS
for the topical issue of Open Theology journal
RELIGION AND RACISM – INTERCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
 
 
Open Theology invites submissions for the topical issue ‘Religion and Racism – Intercultural Perspectives,’ under the general editorship of Dr. Daniel White Hodge (North Park University).

 

The area of religion and racism presents a dearth of scholarship which critically examines the role of racism, even more so, institutional racism, within religion. Religiously speaking, God talk and rhetoric plays an uncanny role on both sides of justice-seeking and continued violence. For example, Darren Wilson—the police officer accused of the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO — claimed it was “God’s will”, while protesters and activists on the ground claim God as being “on their side.” Is God “another White cop waiting to beat my ass,” as the rapper and Hip Hop prophet Tupac Shakur poignantly suggested? Does religion, more generally, have a role in spreading racism? And, what role has God-rhetoric played in racial injustice in cities such as Ferguson in the U.S., and around the world?

 

Therefore, we invite submission addressing one or more of these questions or issues. Although we welcome papers speaking to other topics related to religion and racism, some possible featured issues are as follows:

 

·         The problem of religion and racism in history (e.g. missionary movements; colonialism; how missionaries saw ethnic minorities)

 

·         Racism in official statements of faith communities

 

·         The effect of White Western evangelistic movements on various countries (e.g. China, Kenya, Nigeria)

 

·         Emerging religions that openly criticize the hegenomic religious establishments

 

·         Sacred texts and the interpretation of them in evil-doing (e.g. slavery)

 

Some potential – but certainly not to limit – questions to consider are:

 

·         Does the color of God’s skin matter?

 

·         What is the significance of racial rhetoric within religious discourse?

 

·         How ought religion and race be theorized and discussed? What role do they play? In which lives do they matter? What role does the sacred/profane binary play as a rhetorical strategy and political designator?

 

·         How has media shaped religious and racial perceptions in the public sphere in Ferguson, Baltimore and beyond? How has Black rage been projected in these spaces? What does religion have to do with this?

 

We welcome essays critically exploring such questions and issues from multiple perspectives, approaches and methods of analyses.
 
HOW TO SUBMIT

 

Submissions are due January 31, 2016. To submit an article for the special issue of Open Theology, authors are asked to access the on-line submission system at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/openth/ 

 

Please choose as article type: “Special Issue Article: Religion and Racism”.

 

All contributions will undergo critical review before being accepted for publication.

 

 

 

Authors publishing their articles in the special issue will benefit from:

 

·         transparent, comprehensive and fast peer review  

 

·         efficient route to fast-track publication and full advantage of De Gruyter Open’s e-technology,

 

·         no publication fees,

 

·         free language assistance for authors from non-English speaking regions.

 

 Further questions about this thematic issue can be addressed to Dr. Daniel White Hodge at dwhodge@northpark.edu. In case of technical questions, please contact journal Managing Editor Dr. Katarzyna Tempczyk at katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyteropen.com.

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CFP: A special journal issue in Migration Letters

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The guest editors of a forthcoming special journal issue to be published in Migration Letters invite interested researchers to submit manuscripts for an issue  titled  ‘Transnational Migrant Families: Navigating Social Fields, Family Practices, and Generational Experiences’

This special issue focuses on ‘transnational migrant family life.’ We examine different aspects of these lives such as marriage practices, polygamy in transnational context, the role of religiosity in transnational family life, transnational childcare and socialization, the ties and experiences of second generation migrants vis-à-vis their countries of origin, and the construction and management of transnational family life in legal discourses (including religious laws) and institutions. Rather than taking transnational migrant families as a given, we will examine how these families are constituted through actively produced transnational relations and practices as well as through legal and political regimes. We will examine the central theme from three dimensions. First, we will critically examine the different social fields in which transnational family life and relations are constituted and contested. Secondly, we will shed light on the heterogeneity of experiences and aspirations of family members constituting transnational kinship-based networks, particularly along the axes of gender and generation. Third, this issue will shed light on the range and diversity of transnational family practices and their multidimensional purposes and outcomes.

We are interested in soliciting article manuscripts, maximum 4000 words (excluding abstract and references), which tackle the broad theme of transnational migrant families, and which supplement or add other dimensions to the aspects of the transnational family life that we are covering. We are particularly interested in manuscripts based on empirical research on transnational migrant families based in Europe and/or North America with family backgrounds in Africa, South Asia, and/or the Middle East.

Kindly send an abstract to the guest editors by October 26, 2015. Deadline for submission of manuscripts is December 31, 2015.

Guest editors: Mulki Al-Sharmani: Mulki.al-sharmani@helsinki.fi

                       Marja Tiilikainen: Marja.tiilikainen@helsinki.fi

                       Sanna Mustasaari: sanna.mustasaari@helsinki.fi

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Call for Papers: Special journal issue of Migration Letters

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Call for Papers:

The guest editors of a forthcoming special journal issue to be published in Migration Letters invite interested researchers to submit manuscripts for an issue  titled  ‘Transnational Migrant Families: Navigating Social Fields, Family Practices, and Generational Experiences’

This special issue focuses on ‘transnational migrant family life.’ We examine different aspects of these lives such as marriage practices, polygamy in transnational context, the role of religiosity in transnational family life, transnational childcare and socialization, the ties and experiences of second generation migrants vis-à-vis their countries of origin, and the construction and management of transnational family life in legal discourses (including religious laws) and institutions. Rather than taking transnational migrant families as a given, we will examine how these families are constituted through actively produced transnational relations and practices as well as through legal and political regimes. We will examine the central theme from three dimensions. First, we will critically examine the different social fields in which transnational family life and relations are constituted and contested. Secondly, we will shed light on the heterogeneity of experiences and aspirations of family members constituting transnational kinship-based networks, particularly along the axes of gender and generation. Third, this issue will shed light on the range and diversity of transnational family practices and their multidimensional purposes and outcomes.

We are interested in soliciting article manuscripts, maximum 4000 words (excluding abstract and references), which tackle the broad theme of transnational migrant families, and which supplement or add other dimensions to the aspects of the transnational family life that we are covering. We are particularly interested in manuscripts based on empirical research on transnational migrant families based in Europe and/or North America with family backgrounds in Africa, South Asia, and/or the Middle East.

Kindly send an email of interest and any further queries to the guest editors at the emails listed below.  Deadline for submission of manuscripts is December 31, 2015.

Guest Editors:

Mulki Al-Sharmani: mulki.al-sharmani@helsinki.fi

Marja Tiilikainen:  marja.tiilikainen@helsinki.fi

Sanna Mustasaari:  sanna.mustasaari@helsinki.fi

Transnational Muslim Marriages: Wellbeing, Law, and Gender project (2013-2017, Academy of Finland)

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Journal Announcement: A New Issue – Sociology of Islam, Volume 3 (2015) Issue 1-2

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Sociology of Islam: Volume 3 (2015) Issue 1-2
Sectarian Affiliation and Gender Traditionalism:
A Study of Sunni and Shi’a Muslims in Four Predominantly Muslim Countries
Authors: Gabriel A. Acevedo and Sarah Shah
ABSTRACT:
This paper will add to the expanding scholarship in the sociology of Islam and explore the influence of Sunni-Shi’a affiliation on views of gender traditionalism. Using a subset of the World Values Survey, we contrast views towards women’s roles in society held by Sunni and Shi’a respondents in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Pakistan (n = 10,799). Our findings suggest that views of gender traditionalism are not solely a function of sectarian affiliation but that educational attainment, income, demographic factors and national culture are stronger and more consistent predictors of gender traditionalism than sectarian affiliation alone. We draw from theories of religious incongruence and discuss the theoretical implications of our findings. These findings suggest the need for additional research that links sociological theories of religion to the empirical study of Islam, as well as a greater emphasis on the role that social context plays in shaping Muslim public opinion.
Affiliations: 1: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at San Antonio, gabriel.acevedo@utsa.edu ; 2: Doctoral Student, University of Toronto, ssarah.shah@mail.utoronto.ca
Al-Qaida in Iraq Beyond Rhetoric: Visualizing an ‘Islamic State of Iraq’
Author: Christoph Guenther
ABSTRACT:
In any contest for power, the multiple actors involved employ various strategies to convey their messages to national and international audiences. The contest for control over the state between the Iraqi government forces and Jihadist groups after 2003 has seen the latter deploy both rhetoric and particular forms of visualization to persuade their audience of the need to establish an ‘Islamic State’ in Iraq and beyond. This article evaluates the extent to which al-Qāʿida in Iraq ( aqi) and its successor the ‘Islamic State of Iraq’ ( isi) have tried to appeal to supporters by employing specific rhetorical and visual signs. It analyzes the group’s utopian prospects – a vision that is reinforced through rhetoric and images that play on emotions and inspire the adherents of the ‘Islamic State’.
Affiliations: 1: University of Leipzig Leipzig, GermanyRitterstr. 12, 04109 Leipzig (Germany) christoph.guenther@uni-leipzig.de
The 1961 Constitutional Referendum in Turkey
Authors: Yunus Emre and Burak Cop
ABSTRACT:
The 1961 referendum on the new constitution was the first referendum held in the history of the Turkish republic. However, no deeper analysis of this phenomenon has been conducted in the English-language academic literature. This paper undertakes that objective. The new constitution was drafted and adopted under anti-democratic conditions. The post-coup era was a missed opportunity for instituting a stronger democracy. The referendum was the last nationwide vote in which traditional actors played significant roles in determining voting behavior. The notables and major landowners of the under-developed provinces led the masses to vote in favor of the new constitution. Starting in 1965, politics in Turkey became ideology-centered and class-oriented, thus causing the influence of traditional actors to diminish. Although the campaign for votes to support the referendum dominated the political scene in 1961, the electorate showed its distance from the coup anyway.
Affiliations: 1: Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Kültür University, y.emre@iku.edu.tr; 2: Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Kültür University, burakcop@yahoo.co.uk
Globalization, Political Islam, and Moderation: The Case of Muslim Democratic Parties
Author: A. Kadir Yildirim
ABSTRACT:
In this article, I examine the rising significance of a moderate kind of Islamist party emerging in the Middle East in recent years—Muslim democratic parties—and, the factors underlying their electoral success. In this, the manuscript takes a closer look at an important constituency of Islamist parties, the small and medium business owners ( smes). Briefly, I argue that smes’ support underlies the success of moderate Muslim democratic parties as opposed to more conservative Islamist parties, and what determines smes’ support for a moderate party is the change in their political preferences. The change in smepreferences, I show, is due to the form that economic liberalization takes, whether economic liberalization is more inclusive (what I call competitive liberalization) or exclusive/selective (what I call crony liberalization). Empirically, I rely on original field interviews I conducted with party officials and business owners in Egypt, Morocco, and Turkey. I also integrate primary sources such as party publications into the analysis.
Affiliations: 1: Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, ay18@rice.edu

 

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Implicit Religion Journal – Seeking New Editor

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Following the death of the Founding Editor Edward Bailey in April,
Equinox is seeking to appoint a new editor for Implicit Religion. If
you might be interested in the role, or have anyone to suggest, please
contact Janet Joyce jjoyce@equinoxpub.com.

Implicit Religion is an international journal published quarterly which
welcomes papers on theory and evidence in the study of religion and
secularity, and those which explore the relationship between the context
and dynamism of religious and secular phenomena. It is particularly
concerned with religious life outside the boundaries of the
churches/organized religion in post-modernity. The aim of Implicit
Religion is to enhance our general understanding of human behaviour,
through the insights developed by the academic study of religion.

http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/IR

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