New Journal: Journal of Religious and Political Practice

Book Review Editor
Kevin Schilbrack, Appalachian State University
Send books for review to:
Kevin Schilbrack, Professor and Chair
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Appalachian State University
Greer Hall 113
Boone, NC 28608
USA

Digital Media Content Manager
Eric Waite, Iowa State University

Body and Religion is an internationally peer reviewed, interdisciplinary
journal devoted to all issues of body and religion. We welcome
English-language submissions from scholars who use diverse methodologies
and approaches, ranging from traditional to innovative, to explore
issues of “body” as a fundamental analytical category in the study of
religion. We seek to publish the widest possible diversity of critical
inquiry into the relationships between all manner of bodies; concepts of
“body,” and both traditional and alternative religious traditions,
popular culture, literature, the arts, psychology, philosophy, the
natural sciences, national and social movements, gender and sexuality,
modification and transformation, underground/alternative culture, time
periods, and regions.

The journal provides a forum for the study of all manner of ancient and
contemporary practices, concerns, ideals, and connections or
disconnections between body and religion. Essays and analyses are
capable of being delivered on a multi-media platform, assisting in
examining performances, rituals, and other topics that are not easily
captured in print. However, alternate and innovative presentations must
include a significant written portion for print, while corresponding
extra color art, video, and other media will be included on the journal
website and in other electronic forms.

Body and Religion considers submissions from both established scholars
and research students. All articles are refereed. There are two issues
per year commencing in 2016.

Publication and Frequency
Two issues per volume year.
ISSN 2057-5823 (Print)
ISSN 2057-5831 (Online)

Send books for review to:
Kevin Schilbrack, Professor and Chair
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Appalachian State University
Greer Hall 113
Boone, NC 28608
USA

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CFP – Mapping Shia Muslim Communities in Europe: Local and Transnational Dimensions

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Janaki

Call for articles for a special issue of the Journal of Muslims in Europe on:

Mapping Shia Muslim Communities in Europe: Local and Transnational
Dimensions

The current political situation in the Middle East influences and shapes
the perception of Islam and of Muslims in Europe. The ambitions of Iran
and its use of Shia Islam to mobilise Shia minority communities in the
region, not least since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, have been, a
major focus of academic research. In Europe, however, although Islam and
Muslims more generally have received extensive attention by the media,
the wider public and in academic research in recent decades, Shia
Muslims have only very lately attracted the attention of some scholars
working on Shia communities in Europe and their transnational links.

This planned special issue intends to fill this gap in academic research
and aims at mapping Shia communities in various European countries. Shia
Muslims in Europe constitute a minority within a minority and are
characterised by being highly diverse in terms of their ethnic
background, ideological orientation and socio-political and migratory
status. The purpose of this issue is to bring articles together that
discuss the presence of Shia Muslims in Europe and to cover a broad
range of topics which include mapping the historical development of Shia
Muslim communities and changing demographics as well as investigating
their local- and trans-local communal and organisational connectivities
and religious ritual practices within a European context.

Submission guidelines and procedure

The articles should be between 5000-7000 words (including notes and
references). Article proposals may engage with the overall topic of Shia
Islam and Shia Muslims in Europe from any discipline on the following
topics (not exhaustive):

Shia communities in different European contexts
Shia ritual practices in Europe
Shia Islam and gender in Europe
Demotic processes in the articulation and performance of Shia identities
in Europe
Shia Muslims of diverse backgrounds (Iranian, Iraqis, Pakistanis,
Indians, Khojas, Lebanese, Saudi-Arabian, Bahraini, Kuwaiti etc.) and
their relationship to each other in European minority contexts
Generational dynamics within European Shia communities

Articles can discuss Shia communities in a broader European context
across different nation-states or focus on case studies within a
particular European country. We also welcome abstract submissions that
explore various transnational links between European and other Shia
Muslim communities across the world.

Individuals who are interested in submitting an article for
consideration should submit an abstract between 300-500 words in a
Microsoft Word or pdf document together with a short bio (not more than
300 words) to

y.shanneik@chester.ac.uk

We encourage PhD students and early-career researcher to submit
proposals as well.

Important dates:

Abstract deadline: 1 July 2015
Notification of abstract acceptance: 17 July 2015
Submission deadline of full articles: 1 February 2016
Planned publication: Spring 2017

The editors are seeking original research only. Articles submitted must
therefore not have been published, accepted for publication or currently
be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Article guidelines will be sent upon acceptance notification.

The editors are seeking to publish a special edition in the Journal of
Muslims in Europe published by Brill: www.brill.com/jome.

We are looking forwards to receiving your abstracts.

Guest-Editors:

Dr Yafa Shanneik
Dr Sufyan Abid
Chris Heinhold

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Journal Issue: “Pentecostalism around the Baltic Sea”

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Jim

Approaching Religion Vol. 5/1 (May, 2015)

Theme: Pentecostalism around the Baltic Sea

Available at: www.abo.fi/approachingreligion

The current issue consists of articles based on presentations given at the seminar (by invitation) “Pentecostalism around the Baltic Sea” arranged by PhD Tuija Hovi at Åbo Akademi University, Finland in May, 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.

Approaching Religion
Vol 5, No 1 (2015): Pentecostalism around the Baltic Sea
Table of Contents
http://ojs.abo.fi/index.php/ar/issue/view/71

Editorial:

Pentecostalism around the Baltic Sea (1-3) Tuija Hovi, Ruth Illman

Articles:

(Re-)Placing Pentecostalism: Swedish Mission and the idea of the Baltic (4-15) Simon Michael Coleman
Research on Pentecostalism in Sweden (16-30) Jan-Åke B. Alvarsson
Pentecostal currents and individual mobility: visiting church services in Stockholm County (31-43) Jessica Moberg
Conversion and the transformation of culture in the Finnish Pentecostal movement (44–56) Teemu T. Mantsinen
Charismatic Christianity and Pentecostal churches in Estonia from a historical perspective (57-66) Ringo Ringvee
From Pentecost to ‘inner healing': religious change and Pentecostal developments in the post-socialist Lithuanian Catholic milieu (67-78) Saulius Matulevicius
Localising and acculturating the global: the Healing Rooms prayer service network in Finland (79-91) Tuija Hovi

Review Article:

Pentecostalism in Finland: the precarious beginning (92-5) Nils G. Holm

Book Review:

Hippiedom and the American religious landscape (96–7) Dan Sundqvist

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CFP: “Pentecostals and the Body”

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Jim

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
Volume 8: Pentecostals and the Body
Forthcoming 2017
Edited by: Michael Wilkinson (Trinity Western University, Canada) and Peter Althouse (Southeastern University, USA)

The body is an important area of research in sociology as well as across a number of disciplines including religion. The intersection of religion, sexuality, gender studies, queer studies, disability studies, health and illness, pain, death and dying, emotions, and embodiment, or more specifically the social and cultural meanings of the body are especially insightful. While literature on embodiment continues to expand, to date, there is no sustained examination of Pentecostalism and the themes associated with research on the body. And yet, Pentecostals offer some very interesting observations about religion, religious experience, religious embodiment, healing, sexuality and notions of control, holiness, and celebration. Pentecostals are well known for
overt bodily expressions of religious experience, spirituality that includes kinesthetic worship such as speaking in tongues, dancing, twirling, and falling down. Among Pentecostals there is also
considerable debate about bodies, the relationship between bodies and the Holy Spirit, possession of evil spirits, deliverance and exorcism.

Pentecostalism also has a long history of claiming divine healing for the body and emotions. Believing that healing is a sign of divine power and presence raises a certain tension with bodies that never experience healing or face some type of disability. Pentecostalism is also associated with notions of sexuality, and gender roles that are liberating and limiting. Generally, we intend to explore the following: How and by what means is Pentecostalism embodied? What debates highlight the tensions over bodies and so called authentic expressions of Pentecostalism vis-à-vis the body and the politics of the body? What is the social processes and social interactions by which bodies embody religion?

To explore these issues we propose to include articles around the following themes.

The Kinesthetic Body – Pentecostals and charismatic worship, speaking in tongues, dreams, and visions.
Bodies and Spirit(s) – Pentecostal notions of being filled with the Holy Spirit and deliverance of other spirits.
Health, Illness, and Disability – Pentecostals and the practice of healing and discourses around illness and death.
The Politics of Sexuality and Gender Roles – Pentecostalism as liberating and limiting for bodies, social control and gender roles, sexuality and notions of holiness/purity of body.

The editors will seek out contributors who can address questions raised in the sociology of religion about Pentecostalism and the sociology of the body with authors representing regional and cultural variation. Please send all proposals (300 words) to Michael.Wilkinson@twu.ca

Deadlines:
Submission of proposals: July 30, 2015
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2015
Completed manuscripts (7,000 words): June 30, 2016

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Journal Issue Online: Revista Sociedad y Religión (Mayo 2015).

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Jim

Les compartimos el último Número (43) de la Revista Sociedad y Religión (Mayo 2015). Completo y totalmente gratis.

Link al número: http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_issuetoc&pid=1853-708120150001&lng=es&nrm=iso

Comité Editorial
Revista Sociedad y Religión
Programa Sociedad, Cultura y Religión del CEIL – CONICET

Web: http://www.ceil-conicet.gov.ar/publicaciones/sociedad-y-religion

Facebook: Revista Sociedad y Religión del Ceil-Conicet

Twitter: @Revista_SyR

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Journal Announcement: “Politics and Religion Journal” now available online.

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Jim

The topic of this issue is “Religion and Politics in Latin America”, with Dr. Emilce Cuda of Argentina as a guest editor.

You can find more information about this issue on IPSA’s web site.

For the direct access to the articles, please follow this link.

On behalf of PRJ,
Marko Vekovic

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Journal Issue on “Religion and Food”

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Jim

We are happy to announce the publication of: Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis Vol. 26 (2015)
Theme: Religion and Food

Available in open access at: www.abo.fi/scripta

The current issue consists of articles based on presentations given at the conference “Religion and Food” arranged in Turku/Åbo, Finland in June, 2014.

Scripta is 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. The series is published as an open access e-volume but printed copies of the book can also be obtained via our print-on-demand service, please contact the Donner Institute for information about price and practicalities: donner.institute@abo.fi

Table of Contents
http://ojs.abo.fi/index.php/scripta/issue/view/74

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Category Archives: Journal Announcements

New Journal: Journal of Religious and Political Practice

Discover Society on Islamophobia

SOCIOLOGY OF ISLAM JOURNAL Special Issue: Contemporary Social Movements in the Middle East and Beyond – Mojtaba Mahdavi

Introduction: East Meets the West?

Suggestion, Translation, Transposition

The Post-Islamist Turn and the Contesting Visions of Democratic Public Religion

Understanding Iran’s Green Movement as a ‘movement of movements’

Anger in Search of Justice: Reflections on the Gezi Revolt in Turkey

The Muslim Brotherhood: Between Democracy, Ideology and Distrust

The Arab Summer and Its Discontents

Democracy and Disillusionment: Copts and the Arab Spring

Revolution in the Age of Identity: North Africa and the Postcolonial Condition

Beyond Resurgent ‘Islamists’ and Enlightened ‘Secularists’

A Palestinian Uprising: Is it Possible or is it Too Late?

Activism and Exception in Covering Egypt’s Uprising: A Critical Reading of the New York TimesRepresentation of Female Protestors

The Matrix of Communication in Social Movements

Post Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam, edited by Asef Bayat

Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870–1915, edited by Joost Jongerden and Jelle Verheij

Building A House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt, written by Mona Atia

Do Muslim Women Need Saving, written by Lila Abu-Lughod

Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture, written by Aidi, Hisham

New journal: Body and Religion