On March 6-8, 2014, the University of Bern will host an international conference entitled "Working with A Secular Age: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Charles…
CFP: Working with A Secular Age
religious studies
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship opening at Williams College
Williams College has posted an opportunity in the Department of Religion. The college seeks a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Islam…
CFP: Varieties of Understanding
The Varieties of Understanding project at Fordham University in New York is a three-year, $3.85 million initiative that aims to fund groundbreaking work…
CFP: Religious Studies 50 years after Schempp
On September 27-29, 2013, the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington will host a conference entitled “Religious Studies 50 Years after Schempp:…
Confused parchments, infinite socialities
Ambivalence, avoidance, hedging, delay—these are but some of my responses to Michael Warner’s richly rendered provocation and response to my…
The study of American religions in Religion
In the most recent issue of Religion (subscription required), a peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research in the comparative and…
In defense of the sociology of religion
In a recent contribution to ASA Footnotes, Christian Smith explains why it is crucial for sociologists to take religion seriously,…
Why religious studies?
On April 18th, Columbia University's Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life will host Nathan Schneider for a talk on "Why…
Religion-making
Broadly conceived the term religion-making refers to the ways in which religion(s) is conceptualized and institutionalized within the matrix of…
RFP: New Directions in the Study of Prayer
The Social Science Research Council recently announced the launch of a new project and grants program entitled "New Directions in…