Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion

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Edited by Enzo Pace, Luigi Berzano and Giuseppe Giordan

For more information please visit brill.com/arsr

ISSN 1877-5233

The purpose of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion (ARSR) is to investigate the “new” role of religion in the contemporary world, which is more and more characterized by cultural pluralism and by religious individualism.

Call for Manuscripts: Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion

Volume 10: Interreligious Dialogue: From Religion to Geopolitics

Edited by Giuseppe Giordan, University of Padua, and Andrew P. Lynch, University of Sydney

The topic of interreligious dialogue is of critical importance at a time of increasing geopolitical tension.  The urgency for developing better analytical tools for understanding interreligious dialogue is underscored by widespread concerns about religion and violence, and the security culture that this has given rise to in a number of nation states.  Furthermore, globalization, technological developments, mass migration, and recent political upheavals and the narratives of exclusion that have been associated with them, highlights the need for greater levels of communication between religious groups.  This volume seeks to investigate interreligious dialogue as a necessary component of global affairs in post-secular times, and in multi-faith societies facing increasing levels of cultural pluralism. To explore these issues we propose to include articles on the following themes, from the perspective of a range of different religions: 1. Changing viewpoints and theories in the study of interreligious dialogue

  1. Interreligious dialogue and politics in the context of globalization

  2. Interreligious dialogue and debates about secularism and post-secularism

  3. Interreligious dialogue in the context of social diversity, cultural pluralism, and multi-faith societies

  4. Interreligious dialogue and emerging information technologies

  5. Interreligious dialogue in an age of terrorism

  6. Interreligious dialogue and migration

Please send all proposals (300 words) to andrew.lynch@sydney.edu.au

Deadline Submission of proposals: July 30, 2017

Deadline Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2017

Deadline Completed manuscripts (7,000 words): June 30, 2018

 

Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion

Volume 8: Pentecostals and the Body

Edited by Michael Wilkinson and Peter Althouse

• Hardback (approx. 350 pp.)

• ISBN 9789004344174 Price € 160 / US$ 184 • ISBN 9789004344181 E-Price € 145 / US$ 167

• Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, 8

Volume 7: Sociology of Atheism

• July 2016

• Hardback (xvi, 287 pp.)

• ISBN 9789004317536 Price € 115 / US$ 149

• E-ISBN 9789004319301 E-Price € 115 / US$ 149

• Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, 7

Volume 6: Religion and Internet

• September 2015

• Hardback (xii, 213 pp.)

• ISBN 9789004297951 Price € 108 / US$ 138

• E-ISBN 9789004302549 E-Price € 106 / US$ 140

• Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, 6

Volume 5: Sociology and Monasticism, Between Innovation and Tradition

• November 2014

• Hardback (xviii, 322 pp.)

• ISBN 9789004270879 Price € 140 / US$ 179

• E-ISBN 9789004283503 E-Price € 138 / US$ 182

• Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, 5

Volume 4: Prayer in Religion and Spirituality

• November 2013

• Hardback (vi, 310 pp.)

• ISBN 9789004260481 Price € 126 / US$ 151

• E-ISBN 9789004260498 E-Price € 118 / US$ 154

• Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, 4

Volume 3: New Methods in the Sociology of Religion

• July 2012 • Hardback (xviii, 292 pp.)

• ISBN 9789004176034 Price € 124 / US$ 149

• E-ISBN 9789047429470 E-Price € 116 / US$ 152

• Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, 3

Volume 2: Religion and Politics

• August 2011

• Hardback (xiv, 336 pp.)

• ISBN 9789004209282 Price € 146 / US$ 175

• E-ISBN 9789004216419 E-Price € 138 / US$ 179

• Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, 2

Volume 1: Youth and Religion

• November 2010

• Hardback (x, 488 pp.)

• ISBN 9789004187900 Price € 182 / US$ 220

• E-ISBN 9789004193727 E-Price € 171 / US$ 225

• Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, 1

Call For Papers: Religion(s) and Power(s)

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Religion(s) and Power(s)
Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
October 5-6, 2017

 

The Lithuanian Society for the Study of Religions in cooperation with Latvian Society for the Study of Religions and Estonian Society for the Study of Religions invites proposals for its upcoming international conference “Religion(s) and Power(s)”. To encourage new directions in the critical research of interrelations of religion(s) and power(s) from a broad range of approaches, we are seeking proposals on a wide range of topics including:
•     Private and public religions;
•     Religions and politics;
•     Non-religion and power;
•     Religious inequalities and discrimination;
•     Religions, human rights and justice;
•     Powers of/within religions;
•     Religion and nationalism;
•     Mythology, divine kinship and power;
•     Religion and colonialism;
•     Religions and education.
Other topics related to the conference theme are also encouraged.

 

Conference paper and session proposals must be sent by June 1, 2017.Please send your 250-300 word abstract and a 200-word personal bio to email: religiousstudieslt@gmail.com

 

Important conference dates:
June 15, 2017 – submission of conference papers and sessions proposals;
July 1, 2017 – notification of paper/session proposal acceptance;
July 1, 2017 – opening of registration for the conference;
August 15, 2017 – closing of registration for the conference;
September 1, 2017 – announcement of the conference program.

 

Conference Registration Fees:
–       Members of national associations of Baltic States associations for the study of religions – 50 EUR;
–       Permanent/full-time faculty and non-affiliated participants – 80 EUR;
–       Graduate students and emeritus faculty – 50 EUR;
–       Late bird conference fee – 100 EUR.

 

Announcement: Hungarian Government

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The Hungarian government has proposed amendments to the National Higher Education Law that would make it impossible for Central European University – and possibly other international institutions – to continue operations within the country. These changes would endanger the academic freedom vital for CEU’s continued operation in Budapest and would strike a blow against the academic freedom that enables all universities to flourish.
 
I appeal here to you as fellow academics to defend our institution and the independence of higher education institutions around the globe. If you are ready to help, please visit https://www.ceu.edu/category/istandwithceu to read about possible ways of supporting CEU and academic freedom in Hungary. Please also check out the petition at https://www.change.org/p/hungarian-national-assembly-save-the-central-european-university .
 
Thank you in anticipation for your support!
 
Eszter Spät, Cultural Heritage Studies, CEU, Budapest

Deux Colloques: Le centre de recherche Société, Droit et Religions de l’Université de Sherbrooke

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Le centre de recherche Société, Droit et Religions de l’Université de Sherbrooke (SoDRUS) organise deux colloques dans le cadre du 85ème congrès de l’Acfas.
 
Le premier colloque intitulé Loyauté politique et trahison au XXIe siècle : quelle actualité ?aura lieu le lundi 8 mai 2017 à l’Université McGill. Ci-joint le lien sur la page d’information du colloque où vous trouverez l’affiche de l’événement ainsi que le programme de la journée :https://www.usherbrooke.ca/sodrus/index.php?id=4279
 
Le second colloque intitulé Intégration citoyenne : identités religieuses et vivre ensemble dans l’espace libéral aura lieu le jeudi 11 mai 2017 à l’Université McGill. Ci-joint le lien sur la page d’information du colloque où vous trouverez l’affiche de l’événement ainsi que le programme de la journée : https://www.usherbrooke.ca/sodrus/index.php?id=4282
Nous vous rappelons de la nécessité de payer les frais d’inscription en ligne sur le site de l’acfaswww.acfas.ca si vous êtes intéressés de participer aux deux événements ci-haut. Il n’y a malheureusement pas de paiement à la journée, mais l’inscription couvre toute la semaine et vous permet d’assister à tous les colloques de l’acfas.
N’hésitez pas de partager ce courriel avec des collègues qui seront intéressés d’assister à cet événement. 
 
Pour vous désabonner de la liste d’envoi du SoDRUS, merci de cliquer sur le bouton suivant : Se désabonner

Call for Papers: Politics of Emotions in Turkey and Its Connected Geographies

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Call for Papers (deadline June 15, 2017)
Politics of Emotions in Turkey and Its Connected Geographies
December 1-2, 2017
London School of Economics
 
In Turkey politics is often emotional and emotions are highly politicized. However, a closer look at public and political expressions of emotions shows that distinctive emotions show salience at different decades and under different political projects. In other words, emotions are historically, politically, and socially situated. Passionately felt as well as despised emotions are closely connected to micro and macro developments people find themselves in.
 
This symposium aims to have a closer look at the politics of emotions and affect from an interdisciplinary perspective. It seeks to inquire the emotional and affective aspects of the political, social, economic, religious, and artistic fields in Turkey and its connected geographies. We especially want to explore the often invisible but highly effective hierarchies that are created among emotions themselves: which emotions are sanctioned or even actively cultivated and when? Which emotions are rendered inappropriate or unacceptable and for whom?
Among others, we are curious to explore the trajectories of the following emotions: fear, pride, hope, love, guilt, denial, resentment, anger, suspicion, belonging, compassion, empathy, humiliation, respect, and trust.
Speakers
The following speakers have confirmed their participation: 
Dr. Bilgin Ayata, University of Basel
Prof. Carel Bertram, San Francisco State UniversityDr. Elise Massicard, Sciences Po
Dr. Yael Navaro, Cambridge University
Dr. Esra Ozyurek, London School of Economics
Dr. Ayse Parla, Sabanci University/Princeton University
 
Applications
Junior scholars are especially encouraged to apply. Those presenting at the symposium will be partly reimbursed for their travel and accommodation expenses. Scholars whose rights to travel are taken away from them will be able to join via Skype.
 
Applications must include:
  • A 250 word abstract of your research paper which includes your research topic and an explicit research question; a specification of the theoretical approach and methodical design involved; a summary of the key findings of the paper;
  • a up-to-date CV of max. 2 pages;
  • and an additional list of publications.
The deadline for applications is June 15, 2017. Please send your application and any questions you may have by email to euroinst.turkish.studies@lse.ac.uk. All applicants will receive a notice of receipt by email by July 31, 2017.
Full papers
Full papers have to be written in English language and must include:
  • A cover page indicating the title, author’s name and degree, and contact information;
  • A short abstract of max. 250 words preceding the paper.
  • Papers should not exceed 15 pages (2 cm margin, 1.5 cell spacing, 12pt Times New Roman).
Complete papers must be submitted by September 30, 2017.  Please note that the final acceptance can only be guaranteed after the submission of the full papers by the deadline. 
We will seek to compile the best presentations in a special issue on the topic to be published in a high impact journal.
This symposium is being co-organised by the London School of Economics, Contemporary Turkish Studies and the Consortium for European Symposia on Turkey (CEST).
CEST  convenes annual high-quality academic events that seek to make a major impact in the field of Turkish Studies in Europe, create new ways of engaging with the study of Turkey, and make this field more accessible to the debates in the social sciences. CEST is committed to the study of modern Turkey by bringing together the expertise of leading European research institutions: Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, London School of Economics, Cambridge University, SciencesPo, Stockholm University, Universität Hamburg, University of Oxford, and Network Turkey.
The Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies focuses on culture, religion, politics, and memory in Turkey and among Turkey’s diasporic populations.  Its mission is to promote a deeper understanding of Turkey with emphasis on its diversity and a focus on its connections to wider world. As the only Chair of its kind located at a European Institute, its specific focus is the dynamic relationship of Turkey with Europe. The Chair provides academic leadership in the study of Turkey with respect to interdisciplinary and critical research, teaching and related public activities. It organizes seminars and conferences, and supports doctoral studies on contemporary Turkey.
 

Call for Papers: Refugees Welcome? The politics of hospitality and care in Turkey and Europe

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Refugees Welcome? The politics of hospitality and care in Turkey and Europe
Convenors: Dr. Hilal Alkan (EUME Fellow, Forum Transregionale Studien/ZMO, Berlin) and Dr. H. Pınar Şenoğuz (Philipp Schwartz Fellow, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen)
This panel aims to critically explore the welcoming responses refugees, fleeing from violent conflicts in their own countries, receive from the members of the host societies upon immigration to Europe, including Turkey. These responses are not solely determined by government policies regarding migration, border control and inclusion; yet they are always in dialogue with them. However, it is still possible to identify grassroots efforts to smoothen the transition of refugees and provide them with vital assistance and aid; as well as tensions in local communities while receiving the refugees. 
Drawing on Derrida’s notion of hospitality as an inherently conflictual relation, we argue against an understanding of hospitality as an ethical comparative tool (i.e. more welcoming vs. less welcoming), and rather want to emphasize a conflicted politics of gift and exchange, solidarity and hostility, beyond the binary nature of guest-host relationship. This approach provides tools that allow us to situate the refugees and the locals at the same level, and reveal the workings of power, inequality, indebtedness and patronage as well as care and discipline in every encounter. All these intricate and intimate aspects of welcoming refugees have unforeseeably drastic effects on the questions of inclusion and exclusion, both in the present and in the future of the host countries.
We particularly welcome submissions of papers based on ethnographic research and deal with the questions of hospitality/hostility, care and compassion in the context of the refugee influx with a critical eye. To send abstracts please use the link: http://www.pacsa-web.eu/pasca-meeting-2017-amsterdam/
Deadline is 2 April 2017

Call for papers: The Impact of Religion Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy

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The second international conference on: The Impact of Religion Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy at Uppsala University, Sweden, April 24-26th 2018 

The Impact of Religion conference offers an interdisciplinary forum for sharing recent research on the role of religion in both the public and the private sphere – locally, nationally and internationally.

Particular attention is paid to the links between religion, the law and wider social developments.

The religious landscape of Europe is continually changing. Migrations, provoked by international conflicts and poverty, have brought new challenges to secular states regarding the handling of religious and cultural pluralism. Religious traditions and convictions raise new issues for states, local governments, lawyers, healthcare workers, and teachers – in practice for all citizens. At the same time secularist counter-reactions oppose religious visibility in the public sphere and religious/ethnic pluralism is questioned by right wing groups. Increasing racism related to religion and religiously motivated terror, adds energy to growing polarizations. Additionally new existential issues appear due to feelings of insecurity arising from war, terror, global warming and advancing technology. In such circumstances, religion appears in a positive as well as negative light.

These ongoing changes provoke new questions regarding the role of religion in democracy, human rights, law, family life, healthcare, well-being, welfare and science. Religion has become a crucial research area in a wide variety of academic disciplines. Thus there is a need to reconsider the concept of religion and to rethink theoretical and methodological approaches.

The Uppsala conference provides an opportunity to disseminate, share and discover a wide range of data and ideas within this expanding field. We expect contributions from lawyers, human rights experts, social scientists, specialists in social policy, health and welfare, philosophers and scientists, as well as those engaged directly in theology and religious studies. We are particularly interested in how religion (in all its diversity) influences different sectors of society and how they in turn influence religion. The conference marks the end of the 10 year research programme The Impact of Religion: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy, and the merging of the Impact programme with Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre. Results from the IMPACT programme will be presented and discussed in joint sessions along with contributions from other researchers attending the conference.

Call for papers

The second international interdisciplinary conference on:The Impact of Religion Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy. Uppsala University, Sweden, April 24-26th 2018.

Abstracts for paper presentations are invited on the following themes:

  • Religion and migration

  • Religion in the public sphere, media and politics

  • Religious diversity, non-religion, secularism

  • Religious freedom versus other human rights

  • Religion and youth, family, gender, sexuality

  • Religion and racism, discrimination, segregation

  • Religion and violence, terror and the security state

  • Faith based organisations as welfare providers, civil society, social capital

  • Existential health and well-being

  • Science and religion, relativism and absolutism

  • and other related themes….

Comparative papers are particularly welcome. Theoretical, methodological and substantive issues will be given equal consideration. Thematic sessions will be developed as submitted abstracts arrive. The conference language is English. Selected papers will be published!

Suggestions for special thematic sessions are welcome; please send an email to info@crs.uu.se by May 31st 2017

Deadline for the submission of abstracts (max 200 words): October 31st 2017

The conference is hosted by The Impact of Religion Programme and Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre at Uppsala University.

Information on abstract format and delivery, programme, registration, venue etc. will be available at: www.impactofreligion.uu.se

Call for Papers: Surveillance and Religion

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Call for Papers: Surveillance and Religion

Special Issue of ‘Surveillance and Society’ journal

www.surveillance-and-society.org

Edited by Eric Stoddart, University of St Andrews, UK, and Susanne  Wigorts Yngevesson, Stockholm School of Theology.

Deadline for submission: 1 August 2017

Publication date: early 2018

This special issue will be one of the outputs of the AHRC funding of the network  during 2016 & 2017.

Introduction

This issue of Surveillance & Society is seeking papers and other submissions that examine the interplay between religion and surveillance.

Religious communities are targets, as well as consumers, of surveillance. This may occur as the securitization of religious identity. Cultures of surveillance develop with societies where religion remains a significant player and/or where religious themes continue to influence as part of the broader heritage. Political rhetoric may draw  upon concepts of the eye of God, popular culture may appeal to fears and/or reassurances of a divine and omnipresent gaze. Religious traditions also have the potential to contribute to discussions of the ethics of surveillance, whether in the realm of national security, human rights, trust, privacy or human flourishing in general.

This issue seeks to explore the ways in which particular religious communities are subjects of surveillance and invites critical attention to the ways that religious communities deploy surveillance strategies. It aims to scrutinize how religious themes circulate within discourses that attempt to legitimate or resist surveillance. Furthermore, this issue seeks to articulate particular religious and theological insights and perspectives on the contemporary debate around surveillance.

Possible research areas might include (but are not limited to):

Religions under surveillance.
Religious practice and identity as surveillance.
Religions consuming surveillance.
Religious ethics and surveillance.
Religion and surveillance in films.
Religion and surveillance in novels.
Religion and surveillance in art.
Religion in the political discourses of surveillance.

We also welcome other subjects not outlined above, opinion pieces and research notes, as well as art, new media and other cultural responses. Please contact the guest-editors in advance to discuss proposed topics:

Eric Stoddart, University of St Andrews, UK, es61@st-andrews.ac.uk
Susanne Wigorts Yngevesson, Stockholm School of Theology, wigorts.yngvesson@ths.se

Read more:
http://ericstoddart.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/surveillance-religion-network/activities/special-issue-of-surveillance-and-society-journal/