Contemporary Social-Scientific Study of Religion

The Religious Studies Project: Podcasts and Resources on the Contemporary Social-Scientific Study of Religion

The Religious Studies Project, in association with the British Association for the Study of Religions and with some support from the University of Edinburgh, launched in January 2012. This is a website and podcasting project, featuring a weekly audio interview (of around [...]

2012 UCSIA summer school on “Religion, Culture and Society

Dear all,

We would like to draw your attention to the call for applications for the 2012 UCSIA summer school on “Religion, Culture and Society”. This summer school is a one-week course taking place from Sunday 26 August  until Sunday 2 September (dates of arrival and departure). This year the programme will focus on the topic [...]

Secularism, Gender and Democracy

Lisbon Summer School 2012: “Secularism, Gender and Democracy”.

Call for Applications

Time and Place
July 4-July 6, 2012 at the Centro de Estudos Sociais, Lisbon, Portugal (CES).

Invited Faculty
Veit Bader (Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Rajeev Bhargava (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India)
Chia Longman (University of Ghent, Belgium)

Call for grant applications: AUFF E2011

For those interested in pursuing study or research with the following
research groups at the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University:

1. Center for Contemporary Religion (CCR)

http://teo.au.dk/en/csr/intro/

2. Religion, Cognition and Culture Research Unit (RCC):

http://teo.au.dk/en/research/current/cognition/

Grant applications
AUFF, the Aarhus University Research Foundation invites interested Master or PhD students to apply [...]

Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe

www.rascee.net/
On line journal published by ISORECEA
(International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association)
www.isorecea.net
A new issue has been published in December 2011, which has been the first issue since RASCEE has become the official
journal of ISORECEA
ARTICLES
Contextual Secularization – Theoretical Thoughts and Empirical
Implications Gert Pickel
Secularization, Individualization, or (Re)vitalization? The State and
Development of Churchliness [...]

New Journal: Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME).

 

Date :
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:08:54 +0000

De :
Pedram Khosronejad <pk18@st-andrews.ac.uk>

 
 

The journal Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME) is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal devoted to the anthropological studies of societies and cultures in the Middle East and Central Eurasia. ACME is published on behalf of the Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia [...]

Journal of Contemporary Religion

Journal of Contemporary Religion.Special Issue: Non-religion and Secularity.

Vol. 27, No. 1

January 2012

 

Peter B. Clarke: Tributes

Articles

Interdisciplinary Studies of Non-religion and Secularity: The State of the Union

Stephen Bullivant & Lois Lee

Three Puzzles of Non-religion in Britain

David Voas & Siobhan McAndrew

The Importance of Religious Displays for Belief Acquisition and Secularization

Jonathan A. Lanman

Organised Atheism in India: An Overview

Johannes Quack

The [...]

Social implications of Buddhist revival in China

December 2011; 58 (4)

Les implications sociales du renouveau Bouddhique en Chine.

Edited by: Ji Zhe and Vincent Goossaert

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JI Zhe et and
Vincent Goossaert

Introduction: Les implications sociales du renouveau bouddhique en Chine/ Social Implications of the Buddhist Revival in China

Social Compass December 2011 58: 491-497, doi:10.1177/0037768611421131

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Sun Yanfei

The Chinese Buddhist [...]

Position. The Max-Planck Institute

The Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen is establishing a new research group on legal regulations of religious diversity in modern nation-states. In comparative perspective, the research group will study the global diffusion of regulatory models; religious/secular conflicts in constitutional politics; and negotiations of religious rights in [...]

Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education

Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: An International Journal.

Call for Papers for special issue of Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority
Education: An International Journal.
(Taylor & Francis;
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1559-5692&linktype=1) invites contributions for an upcoming guest edited volume on Migration, Religion, and Education. The continuing salience of religion as a fundamental basis for identity and belonging, and as [...]