New Book: Religious Change and Indigenous Peoples

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Adam

Religious Change and Indigenous Peoples The Making of Religious Identities Helena Onnudottir and Adam Possamai, both at the University of Western Sydney, Australia and Bryan S. Turner, City University of New York, USA and the University of Western Sydney, Australia … Continue reading →

International Workshop on Religion & Civil Society

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Adam

CALL FOR PAPERS XII. International Workshop Religion and Civil Society: BETWEEN FUNDAMENTALISM AND SECULARIZATION November 20 – 25, 2013, Yalta, Livadia (Crimea, Ukraine) Organizers: Western Michigan University (USA) and TAURIDA NATIONAL V.I.Vernadsky UNIVERSITY (Ukraine), NETWORK OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE AND INTERETHNIC … Continue reading →

Assistant Professor Position in Sociology of Religion at Purdue University

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Adam

Assistant Professor Position in Sociology of Religion at Purdue University The Department of Sociology at Purdue University invites applications for an Assistant Professor position beginning Fall 2014. http://www.cla.purdue.edu/sociology/documents/asst_religion2013.pdf

Power/Religion: A Revanche of Reaction or a Metaphor of Revolution?

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Adam

Power/Religion: A Revanche of Reaction or a Metaphor of Revolution? Venues: Helsinki (University of Helsinki) and St Petersburg (European University at St Petersburg and Russian Christian Academy for Humanities) Date: September 10-15, 2013 After a short-lived belief in the secularization … Continue reading →

Religious Right-wing Radicalism: Mapping the Territory

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Adam

Religious Right-wing Radicalism: Mapping the Territory. Conference on the Study of Right-wing Radicals use of religious belief systems Date: 26 – 27 September 2014 Place: University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities, Njalsgade 122, 2300 Copenhagen S Official website: http://tors.ku.dk/religiousrightwingconference/ In … Continue reading →

Religious Conversions in the Mediterranean World

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Adam

Religious Conversions in the Mediterranean World Edited By Nadia Marzouki and Olivier Roy Palgrave Macmillan, August 2013 While globalization and the European construction increasingly undermine the model of the nation-state in the Mediterranean world, conversions reveal the capacity of religion … Continue reading →

The Secular Studies Series

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Adam

Announcing a New Book Series from NYUPRESS THE SECULAR STUDIES SERIES GENERAL EDITOR: PHIL ZUCKERMAN, PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AND SECULAR STUDIES, PITZER COLLEGE There are more secular people in the world than ever before. And simultaneously, various forms andmanifestations of … Continue reading →

Islamism versus Post-Islamism? Mapping topographies of Islamic political and cultural practices and discourses

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Adam

CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS “Islamism versus Post-Islamism? Mapping topographies of Islamic political and cultural practices and discourses” University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany December 13-15, 2013 The general view seems to be that in countries the cultural space shaped by Islamic discourses … Continue reading →

Williams College, Religion Postdoctoral Fellowship in Islam in Context

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Adam

Williams College, Religion Postdoctoral Fellowship in Islam in Context Location: Williamstown, MA Closes: Nov 1, 2013 The Department of Religion at Williams College seeks to appoint a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Islam in Context, beginning in the fall of … Continue reading →

Religions: fields of research, methods and perspectives

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Adam

Religions: fields of research, methods and perspectives International Krakow Study of Religions Symposium Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland 25 – 27 November 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS Attempts to define the subject of religious studies and to specify the boundaries of our … Continue reading →

SISR / ISSR News and Events :: Nouvelles et Evénements

A list of conferences, calls-for-papers, etc. of interest to our members. Une liste des congrès, appels à communication, etc.

New Book: Religious Change and Indigenous Peoples

International Workshop on Religion & Civil Society

Assistant Professor Position in Sociology of Religion at Purdue University

Power/Religion: A Revanche of Reaction or a Metaphor of Revolution?

Religious Right-wing Radicalism: Mapping the Territory

Religious Conversions in the Mediterranean World

The Secular Studies Series

Islamism versus Post-Islamism? Mapping topographies of Islamic political and cultural practices and discourses

Williams College, Religion Postdoctoral Fellowship in Islam in Context

Religions: fields of research, methods and perspectives