Happy holidays to all! Please note that there was a mistake in one of the CFP deadline extension sent earlier this month - it has now been corrected. Do also note our postconference special CFPs as below: Call for manuscripts: special issue on ‘Religion and Violence’ on the Journal for the Academic Study of Religion Religion and Gender Journal on the Call for manuscripts: special issue on ‘Religion, Gender and Violence’ Here’s wishing everybody a well-deserved break and we will be in touch again in 2020.

Call for Papers: Conferences Things that Make for Peace Conference II. Sydney, 18-20 March 2020. Deadline extended 31 December 2019. More info. The XXII Quinquennial World Congress of the IAHR, hosted by the New Zealand Association for the Study of Religions, will take place at the University of Otago, in Dunedin, New Zealand from 23-29 August 2020. Submission deadline 31 December 2019. More info + latest newsletter International Communication Association Preconference on Intersectional Imaginaries in Media, Religion & Gender, Gold Coast, Australia, May 2020. Deadline extended 2 January 2020. More info. Rethinking​ ​Media, Religion and Secularities. Conference of the International Society for Media, Religion and Culture Conference location: Sigtuna Foundation, Sigtuna, Sweden. Conference dates: 4-7 of August 2020. Deadline extended 14 January 2020. More info. Navigating the non/confessional in university Islamic studies. University of Birmingham. 20-22 April 2020. Submission deadline 17 January 2020. More info. “Religion and the urban, natural and virtual environments”, Bi-Annual Conference of the ESA RN34- Sociology of Religion, Groningen (Netherlands), 26-28 August 2020. Abstract deadline 31 January 2020. More info. 3rd ANU Religion Conference - Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy. Canberra, 8-10 December 2020. Proposal deadline 30 April 2020. More info.

Publications

Call for Papers on Digital Visibilities of the Religious. Deadline 15 January 2020. More info. 

Call for papers on Religion & Ecology for a special issue of Religions. Deadline 31 May 2020.

Funding Opportunities Call for proposals: The Religion and Sexual Abuse Project. Deadline 1 February 2020. More info.

Postgrad/ECR Opportunities 4 PhD scholarships at the University of Queensland, Atlas of Religion Project Postdoc positions at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Arizona State University Postdoc Fellowship, The Center for Religion and the Human (CRH) at Indiana University Call for Papers from Sociology of Religion for Advanced Graduate Students Call for Applications: Workshop “Public Scholarship of Religion in an Age of Hypermediation” Summer School on Religion and Cultural Change Also if you’re on Facebook, we have a postgrad page so do join us 🙂

Job Opportunities Lecturer in Philosophy and Religion, Leeds

New Publications Milani M (2019) The “Sufism” of Monsieur Ibrahim, in Cultural Fusion of Sufi Islam: Alternative Paths to Mystical Faith, edited by Sarwar Alam. Routledge: Abingdon. Possamai-Inesedy A and Nixon A (2019)(eds). The Digital Social: Religion and Belief. de Gruyter.

Have you a new event, job opportunity or latest publication to share with us? Please get in touch with the AASR’s Communication Officer, Dr Enqi Weng, at enqi.weng@deakin.edu.au with details by mid of 2nd and 4th week of each month to be included in our now fortnightly newsletter. Thank you.