Cambridge University Press is currently offering free access to the three essays in the review symposium on Robert Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution from the December 2012 issue of the European Journal of Sociology.
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events
Credulity: Enchantment and Modernity in the 19th-Century U.S.
by Jonathan VanAntwerpenThe Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University is co-sponsoring a conference later this week on "credulity."
March 26, 2013
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CFP: Religious Studies 50 years after Schempp
by The EditorsOn September 27-29, 2013, the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington will host a conference entitled “Religious Studies 50 Years after Schempp: History, Institutions, Theory.” Conference organizers have issued a call for papers.
April 12, 2013
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New journal: The Red Egg Review
by Daniel Steinmetz-JenkinsThe Red Egg Review is a new online journal addressing questions of secularism and politics from and Eastern Orthodox perspective
April 23, 2013
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Citizenship and minorities in Egypt
by Wei ZhuOver at Jadaliyya, Mona Oraby addresses the relationship between religious affiliation and national belonging in an article on citizenship debates in Egypt.
April 30, 2013
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Religion and the Public Sphere internship at the Social Science Research Council
by The EditorsThe SSRC’s Religion and the Public Sphere program is currently accepting applications for a summer semester internship which would focus on its ongoing projects and digital forums.
April 30, 2013
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CFP: Bridging Voices
by Wei ZhuThe British Council has recently announced the launch of Bridging Voices, a grants program aimed at promoting improved understanding of the role religion plays in public life and international affairs through a series of transatlantic academic and policy dialogues and outreach activities.
May 6, 2013
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Digital publishing and the academic study of religion
by Wei ZhuOver at The Huffington Post, Norris J. Chumley writes on the growing influence of online forums and journals in the academic world of religion.
May 8, 2013
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Opportunity at the SSRC
by The EditorsThe Social Science Research Council seeks a Program Officer/Coordinator for its work on religion and the public sphere.
May 9, 2013
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Ongoing Reverberations
by The EditorsReverberations, the new digital forum on prayer produced in conjunction with the SSRC’s New Directions in the Study of Prayer (NDSP) initiative, continues to thrive two months since its launch.
May 30, 2013