Monthly Archives: September 2011

The Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of Western Sydney invites you to attend: ‘Swiss Shock:  Minaret Rejection and European Values – Islam and tolerant neutrality’ Speaker: Prof. Douglas Pratt, University of Waikato NZ Date: … Continue reading →

Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion Issue number 4, 2013 Prayer in Religion and Spirituality Edited by Giuseppe Giordan (University of Padua) and Linda Woodhead (University of Lancaster) Call for Papers Prayer brings together the individual, society and the … Continue reading →

The Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of Western Sydney (UWS) invites you to attend the Public Lecture: “Third Force Sufism” by Prof. Paul Heelas, Erasmus University, Rotterdam Date: Thursday 29 September, 2011 Time: 5:00 … Continue reading →

Workshop on Religion Department of Sociology-University of Padua Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion (Brill) CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference FROM RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY TO RELIGIOUS PLURALISM WHAT IS AT STAKE? University of Padua, Italy February 15-16, 2012 Convenors: Enzo … Continue reading →

SAINTS UNDER SIEGE The Texas State Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints Edited By Stuart A. Wright and James T. Richardson https://www.amazon.com/Saints-Under-Siege-Fundamentalist-Alternative/dp/0814795293/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310656507&sr=1-1 This new book examines the misconceived 2008 Texas state raid on the FLDS, the largest state custodial … Continue reading →

BSA Sociology of Religion conference stream, Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association University of Leeds, 11–13 April 2012 The apparent re-emergence of religion as a social force has been highlighted by the economic downturn of recent years: religious communities … Continue reading →

Religion in a Globalized Context: the Mediterranean and the World Chouaîb Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco September 20-22, 2012 https://www.cesnur.org/2012/elj-cfp.htm CALL FOR PAPERS The planning committee for the 2012 meeting of the Center for Studies on New Religions welcomes proposals … Continue reading →

Markus Dressler and Arvind Mandair Oxford University Press Sept 2011 https://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ReligionTheology/Theory/?view=usa&ci=9780199782925 This book conceives of “religion-making” broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is … Continue reading →

Rethinking Secularism Edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer and Jonathan VanAntwerpen                   Oxford University Press - Jul 2011 https://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Sociology/Religion/?view=usa&ci=9780199796687 Edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer and Jonathan VanAntwerpenThis collection of essays presents groundbreaking work from an interdisciplinary group of leading theorists … Continue reading →

AU DÉPARTEMENT DE SCIENCES DES RELIGIONS Université du Québec à Montréal POSTE DE PROFESSEUR LE CHRISTIANISME AU QUÉBEC ET DANS LE MONDE CONTEMPORAIN L’UQAM recherche des candidates et candidats qualifiés afin de renouveler son corps professoral et assurer un développement … Continue reading →