Religion, Race, and National Identity

CALL FOR PAPERS
SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
NOVEMBER 9 – 11, 2012
Hyatt Regency, PHOENIX, AZ

For much of human history, religion has been tightly connected to peoplehood and to territory – to blood and land. Collective identity was a blending of faith with deep relational ties, in today’s terms, religion and [...]

Digital religion.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Donner institute will arrange a Symposium

13-15 June 2012 in Åbo / Turku, Finland

Place:
Åbo Akademi University
Asa
Fänriksgatan 3 / Vänrikinkatu 3
Åbo / Turku/
Finland

The theme we have chosen for the Donner Institute 23rd Symposium is Digital Religion. The conference “Digital Religion” aims to explore the [...]

2012 meetings in Phoenix, Arizona

The Religious Research Association (RRA) is now accepting session and paper proposals for its 2012 meetings in Phoenix, Arizona. The call for papers can be found at http://rra.hartsem.edu/call2012.pdf.  Recall that the deadline for all proposals is March 31.

The RRA submission link can be accessed through the following website.

Gender, Religion and Migration

Call for Papers for special issue on in
new e-journal Religion and Gender http://www.religionandgender.org

The special issue on Gender, Religion and Migration will look at the intersectional dimension of gender, ethnicity and religion where
religion in particular plays a central role in providing a sense of belonging for migrants and represents a source of [...]

New Forms of Public Religion.

AHRC/ESRC RELIGION AND SOCIETY PROGRAMME
5th to 7th September 2012
The Divinity School, St John’s College, Cambridge, CB2 1TW

Call for Papers

The fact that religion has not privatised, but remains an important [...]

Faith in Civil Society: Religious Actors as Drivers of Change

CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference April 24-25, 2012 Uppsala, Sweden.

Religious associations and communities are increasingly recognized as important social actors across the world. This belies common European assumptions of a universal development path of modernisation and
secularisation, wherein religion becomes a privatised matter separate From_the realms of politics and public civic culture. [...]

New Forms of Public Religion.

AHRC/ESRC RELIGION AND SOCIETY PROGRAMME

5th to 7th September 2012

The Divinity School, St John’s College, Cambridge, CB2 1TW

Call for Papers

The fact that religion has not privatised, but remains an important
aspect of public life, is now well recognised.  But talk of ‘public
religion’ can be vague and unfocused. The aim of this conference is to
explore – with new [...]

Public Benefit in the Study of Religion

Call for Papers: Joint BASR/BSA-SOCREL panel on the ‘Public benefit in the study of religion’ with keynote panel speakers Prof. Eileen Barker and Prof. Douglas Davies. BASR annual conference, September 5-7 2012 University of Winchester.
Abstracts to Dr Abby Day a.f.day@kent.ac.uk and Dr Bettina Schmidt b.schmidt@tsd.ac.uk by 1 April 2012.

Who benefits from [...]

The evolution of Mormonism from sect to Church and from Church to sects.

Colloque international sur le mormonisme International Conference on Mormonism

Université de Bordeaux 3
6 et 7 décembre 2012

Maison des Sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine

Organized par Bernadette RIGAL-CELLARD with the Master Religions et Sociétés and CLIMAS (EA 4196), Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3

In collaboration with:
Carter CHARLES, CLIMAS (Cultures [...]

Islamophobia and the Racialization of Muslims.

CFP: Special Issue of Critical Sociology

Steve Garner, Sociology and Public Policy, Aston University, Birmingham, UK & Saher Selod, Sociology, Loyola University, Chicago, USA

http://www.criticalsociology.org/announcements/index.php

Within Europe there are plenty of media-focussed works and discussions of particular controversies; the Danish Cartoons (International Migration special issue 44(5), 2006); anti-terrorism policies (Kundnani, [...]