Date Position is Available: Fall 2014 Listing Active: 04/24/2013 to 05/24/2013 Job Listing Title: Professor Job Position/Rank: Academic Positions – Associate Professor Academic Positions – Full Professor Special Programs and Areas of Faculty Expertise: Cultural Sociology Special Programs and Areas of Faculty Expertise: Religion Region: Salary Range: Negotiable Job Description: http://www.northwestern.edu/african-studies/position-available—islam-in-african-societies.html Northwestern University’s Program of [...]
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An Interdisciplinary Conference at Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, 1-2 November, 2013 The importance of Pentecostal-charismatic movements in the “Global South” has been well established. We would like to call for a scholarly reorientation toward the “Global East” where economic miracles go hand in hand with rapid growths of Christianity. This symposium particularly focuses [...]
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In 2013 the UCSIA summer school focuses on the topic of Religion, Reform and the Challenge of Plurality. We will research processes of change that arise in the interaction between religions and societies in contexts of plurality – especially and also in a global world. Where a diversity of religions and societal perspectives are present, [...]
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ELEVEN ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INSTITUT DES AMÉRIQUES, 4-6 DECEMBER 2013, AIX-MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY The 11th Institut des Amériques Conference Call for papers interrogates the theme of “Women in the Americas.” A generation of scholars in the humanities and social sciences have paid considerable attention to gender- and women-related issues. This more comprehensive framework, constructing [...]
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2013 marks the 75th anniversary of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, and we’re planning to use our meeting in Manhattan this year to celebrate. Our hotel will be the Doubletree Metropolitan, which is part of the Hilton group in New York City, and we were able to get a phenomenal rate — just [...]
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