The Institute of Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship on the study…
Call for Applications | Postdoctoral Fellow at Institute of Islamic Studies
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Controversy over French proposal to edit the Quran: A transatlantic perspective
In the interest of informing our English-speaking readers about recent public debates involving questions of religious difference and public life…
CFP | Sovereignty and Strangeness
The Northwestern Department of Religious Studies graduate students invite young scholars to submit paper proposals for “Sovereignty & Strangeness,” a…
CFP | Rethinking Politics and Religion: Studies in Honor of Professor Saba Mahmood
On the sad news of the passing of Saba Mahmood, the editorial board of the journal Sociology of Islam has decided to…
Call for Applications | IRCPL Postdoctoral Research Scholar
The Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University invites applications for postdoctoral research scholars for a period…
Remembering Saba Mahmood
On March 10, 2018, University of California-Berkeley anthropologist Saba Mahmood died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. Mahmood,…
RFP | Public Theologies of Technology and Presence
The Institute of Buddhist Studies, with the support of the Henry Luce Foundation, invites proposals from scholars across the academic disciplines specializing in any…
CFP | 2018 AAR Secularism and Secularity Unit
The Secularism and Secularity Unit of the American Academy of Religion explores a broad a set of questions associated with…
History and theorizing the secular
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Six short reflections contribute to an ongoing conversation about the value of history to any analysis of secularism, religion, and the…
Call for Applications | International Center for the Humanities and Social Change, UCSB
The recently established International Center for the Humanities and Social Change at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will fund…