Monthly Archives: December 2014

Call For Papers: Religion, Science and the Future

Announcing: Religion, Science and the Future A Conference Sponsored by the The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, Celebrating its 10th Anniversary 14 – 17 January 2016 The University of Florida Gainesville Florida Mark your calendars … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Religious Studies, Liberal Arts, and the Public University, San Marcos, TX, April 10-11, 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS Religious Studies, Liberal Arts, and the Public University The conference will examine religious studies methods, curriculum, pedagogy, and ethos in terms of the field’s relationship to two key social locations, the liberal arts and the public university. … Continue reading

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Call For Papers Religion Interruptus: The Affects of Sex, Politics, and Bodies Graduate Student Conference, Syracuse University

Call For Papers Religion Interruptus: The Affects of Sex, Politics, and Bodies Graduate Student Conference, Syracuse University February 27-March 1.  Call for Papers Deadline: Jan 10th, 2015 The Religion Graduate Organization invites you to submit paper and panel proposals to the … Continue reading

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Rethinking Contested Ground: The Study of Islam in/and the Study of Religion

The following is Matt Sheedy’s introductory essay for the panel of articles on the state and future of Islamic studies, which appears in the November 2014 issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (the full table of contents … Continue reading

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Debating a Discipline, Contesting Identities, and the Future of Islamic Studies

The following is the editorial introduction to the November 2014 issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (the full table of contents having already been posted). We offer this editorial here on the blog in order to give … Continue reading

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Teaching Theory in the Introductory Classroom

This is another installment in an ongoing series of posts in a collaborative effort between the Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy and the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blogs. On November 23, 2014, approximately 20 scholars of religion, from … Continue reading

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Now Published – Bulletin for the Study of Religion 43.4 (November 2014)

The November issue of the Bulletin has been published and is available. Below is the table of contents of this issue, which includes a panel of papers on the current state and future of Islamic studies with contributors building on … Continue reading

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