Observatoire Européen des religions et de la laïcité

The Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG) has launched an innovative set of online, interactive tools that allow users to examine country by country, to graphically visualize and to compare the latest and most comprehensive global migration data existing from 1960 to 2000 (with 2010 updates forthcoming). With stunning new graphics, the data visualizers [...]

The Religion and Public Life Program (RPLP) in the Social Sciences Research Institute at Rice University is offering one two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the social sciences to begin on July 1, 2012 at a rate of $52,000 per year. The fellow will be housed in the Department of [...]

The Department of Religious Studies at the University of Kent has two vacancies for lecturer posts; one an on-going contract, and the other a fixed-term lectureship until the end of August 2014. Candidates would ideally be able to take up their posts in September 2012.

The posts are [...]

Religion & Gender Vol 2, No 1 (2012) has just been published Edited by Chia Longman, Eva Midden and Nella van den Brandt Open access at www.religionandgender.org

Table of Contents

Editorial: Gender and Religiosity in Multicultural Societies Chia Longman, Eva Midden, Nella van den Brandt

Articles

Deference or Interrogation? [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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)

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 [...]

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 [...]