This reflection was born out of an encounter between two researchers working on the same urban space in Cairo, a…
Fieldwork in translation: Reflections on positionality and distance in Cairo
social science
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…
CFP: The Book of Mormon: Americanist Approaches
Professors Jared Hickman and Elizabeth Fenton have put out a call for papers on The Book of Mormon for potential future publication.
CFP: The Religious Turn: Secular and Sacred Engagements in Literature and Theory
The Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature will host its annual conference on The Religious Turn: Secular and Sacred…
Ways of Knowing: Graduate Conference on Religion
Harvard Divinity School is hosting its annual Ways of Knowing conference for graduate students and young scholars who are studying religion in all different programs…
Religion on the Edge
A new book, Religion on the Edge: De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion, edited by TIF contributors Courtney Bender, Wendy Cadge, Peggy Levitt and David…
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation is currently accepting applications for the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
Studying religion
Over at Foreign Policy, anthropologist Scott Atran writes about the need for more social scientists to study how religion affects…
Paul Froese featured in New Voices
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) recently featured Paul Froese in their New Voices section, which recognizes leading scholars in…
A travelogue of ideas
In a special session at the meetings of the American Academy of Religion on November 20, 2011, Robert Bellah discussed…