- ESITIS Conference 2024
Tartu University-Estonia, May 8-11, 2024Methodologies and Ideologies in Interreligious EngagementBuilding Bridges in a Multipolar World(preliminary announcement) The 2024 ESITIS Conference in Tartu explores the radical pluralities at the heart of contemporary interreligious engagement. Its geographical and methodological pluralities provide new generative possibilities for understanding, as voices from the majority world contribute perspectives that reflect local historical trajectories, and as disciplines within the political sciences furnish conceptual tools that complement a focus on texts and rituals in theology and religious studies and the sociology and anthropology of religion. Understanding the role of religion vis à vis governmental and international relations provides…
- CALL FOR PAPERS – Sacred Protest: Religion, Power, and Resistance in an Era of Upheaval
Religion and protest converge and diverge and in pursuit of various ends, making careful analysis of religion and protest, as a prototypical manifestation of transcultural pressures, necessary. Which religious actors protest, when, why and how? Which traditional resources are called upon in the service of or resistance to protest? Where do conditions for inter- and trans-religious cooperation or horizontal solidarity appear and why? And how are protest and religion to be studied, with which methods, and at what level of involvement? What are the values, emotions and possibilities for renewal inreligiously motivated or censored protest? The conference will yield a…
- Vacancy: Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies
Georgetown University: Main Campus: Georgetown College: Theology and Religious Studies Location: Main Campus Open Date: Oct 20, 2021 Deadline: Dec 01, 2021 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Description Georgetown University invites applications for the Joseph and Winifred Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies. The successful candidate will be appointed as an associate or full professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies as well as in the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. The Amaturo Chair holder will also be expected to maintain a collaborative relationship with Georgetown’s Catholic Studies Program. Georgetown is a Catholic and Jesuit University…
