2022 NEWS ARCHIVE

Call for Applications

December 19, 2022

To stimulate high-quality scientific research into the social and cultural impact of religion in the 19th- and 20th-century society Patria vzw and KADOC-KU Leuven offer a short postdoctoral fellowship (12 months). It will be awarded biannually from 2023 onwards.

The fellowship targets excellent junior researchers (M/F) in the human sciences that have recently defended their PhD or are about to. It offers them an opportunity to further develop their research career by carrying out a well-defined, feasible and innovative research project, whether or not building on the knowledge and expertise acquired through the doctorate. The project should lead to a tangible result, preferably the publication of an article in an international scientific journal. The fellowship also supports these young academics in preparing the publication of their dissertation.

Candidates are invited to enter their application before Wednesday, 15 March, 5 p.m.

More information about the Call, how to apply, and the evaluation process are available here.

Extended Deadlines

December 6, 2022

The #EuARe2023 deadline for open call panel submission has been extended until January 6, 2023, at midnight (23.59, GMT+1).

Open panels include a topic and a convenor and invite submissions from panellists.

As indicated on our Call for Proposals, the panel convenor must submit a title, abstract, and the names of at least three agreed panellists (chairs or speakers), of which the convenor may be one. Following acceptance of the panel by the EuARe Executive Committee, open panels are advertised on the EuARe website and social media outlets and may be publicized further by their convenors. Individuals wishing to join an open panel must submit their paper abstracts directly to the panel convenor following the instructions provided in the panel description.

Click here to submit your proposal.

Call for Papers

November 14, 2022

The #EuARe2023 Call for Papers opens today!

If you wish to offer your contribution at the EuARe without organising a panel yourself, you might consider applying for one of the EuARe Open Panels.

Open panels include a topic and a convenor, and invite submissions from panellists. New panels are published weekly on the EuARe website. Individuals wishing to join an open panel must submit their paper abstracts directly to the panel convenor, following the instructions provided in the panel description.

The deadline for submitting your paper for an open panel is January 29, 2023.

EuARe EC. Offices assignment

October 24, 2022

The EuARe EC for 2022-2026 met on October 14 to start planning actions and strategies for the next four years.

On that occasion, the EC elected the new President, Vice-President, Secretary General, and Treasurer of the EuARe.

The offices were assigned as follows:

Herman Selderhuis, President
Hans-Peter Grosshans, Vice President
Karla Boersma, Secretary General
Francesca Cadeddu, Treasurer

While we congratulate them on their election, we invite you to visit our updated Who we are page to know more about our Executive Committee.

#EuARe2023. Call for Proposals

October 3, 2022

The European Academy of Religion is pleased to announce its sixth Annual Conference, which will take place at the University of St Andrews (Scotland, UK) June 19-23, 2023. The conference will be hosted by the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology and Australian Catholic University.

The theme for this year’s gathering is Religion from the Inside, with keynote lectures planned by Prof. Jean-Luc Marion, Dr Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, Prof. Diwakar Acharya, and Dr John Makransky.

Scholars, students, practitioners, and other interested parties are encouraged to participate in the conference by organizing and proposing panels.

The Call for Proposals is now open.

Registration opens in early January 2023.

We remind you that a valid 2023 membership will be necessary in order to register for the conference at a discounted price.

Future EuARe Conferences. A Call for Hosting Institutions

October 3, 2022

EuARe is launching a call for hosting institutions for 2024, 2025, and 2026 Annual Conferences.

Organising a conference like ours, which can count on wide participation and a high number of proposed panels and activities, can be a great challenge but also an important opportunity to serve the whole scientific community and give visibility to a specific scholarly environment, be it local, national or international in its breadth.

We want to make our experience more fruitful and impactful for you all and we look forward to receiving proposals from Institutions, Associations and other Entities willing to organise our future conferences.

The application must include:

1. Name of the proposing Institution and names and professional profiles of the persons involved in the organization of the conference

2. Proposed overarching topic of the conference

3. Proposed dates, considering local and European academic calendars

4. A description of the proposed venue: history, facilities, number and typologies of rooms available and their equipment, accommodations available

Applications must be sent in a text file with a pdf format, not exceeding 15 pages (including images). The deadline for proposal submission for the year 2024 is November 30, 2022.

Read the call in full here.

IRCI Rome Seminars

September 30, 2022

The Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at ACU's Rome Campus invites you to join the public seminar Unwounded World: A Marian Peace for our Shared Future to be held at ACU Rome Campus, October 5-6.

The seminar is part of the Annual IRCI Seminar Series that, since 2015, draws together international scholars to discuss critical questions in religion and theology from multidisciplinary perspectives.

Dedicated to the suffering of children, women and men in Mariupol, this symposium aspires to address the possibility of a future peaceful politics as a sign of the coming caring and unwounded democracy.

The complete program of the conference is available here. Registration is mandatory.

If you are interested in participating, you can follow the instructions available here.

Twelfth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity

September 30, 2022

The Twelfth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity will be hosted by the KU Leuven and will take place May 11-13, 2023.

The topic for Plenary Lectures will be Early Modern Christianity, Economic Entrepreneurship, and Social Welfare, given by the following speakers: Wim Decock (UC Louvain), Nina Javette Koefoed (Aarhus University), Germano Maifreda (University of Milan), Brian P. Owensby (University of Virginia, History Department), Eleonora Rai (KU Leuven), Keith Stanglin (Heritage Christian University, Florence, AL).

The (in-person) conference is open to individual short paper presentations (20-minute presentations) and to thematic sessions of two or three short papers. Papers can focus on all disciplines related to Early Modern Christianity, ca. 1400-1700, such as philosophy, law, history, theology, etc., independent of the theme of the plenary papers.

It is also possible to attend the conference without giving a paper.

The deadline for submitting short papers is March 1, 2023. Registration ends on March 9.

Go here to register and submit your short paper proposal.

For all information about the conference, please visit the dedicated page on the REFORC website.

IRCI Rome Seminars

September 23, 2022

The Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at ACU's Rome Campus invites you to join the public lecture Moving or Fixed? Defining (the) Reformation in the First Global Age to be held by professor Nicholas Terpstra on September 29, 6 pm.

The lecture is part of the Annual IRCI Seminar Series that, since 2015, draws together international scholars to discuss critical questions in religion and theology from multidisciplinary perspectives.

The lecture will take place at the Australian Catholic University, Villa Maria Rome Campus, Largo Giovanni Berchet, 4, 00152 Rome.

Registration is mandatory. The lecture will be held in English; however, Italian simultaneous translation headsets will be available for attendees to use.

If you are interested in participating, you can follow the instructions available here.

Call for Applications. DREST

July 19, 2022

31 Italian universities and research centres launched DREST, a national doctoral school in Religious Studies which offers 43 scholarships in 23 cities to both Italian and international fellows.

The program includes six curricular areas:

Buddhism and Religions of Asia
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
Law and Religion
Transdisciplinarity and Technological Frontier Research

The call for application is now open. Applicants must be in possession of either an Italian higher level degree (Laurea Specialistica under D.M. 509/99 or Laurea Magistrale under D.M. 270/04) or an Italian degree obtained prior to D.M. 509/99 or equivalent qualification obtained abroad. Deadline: 25/08/2022.

More details and information are available at the DREST website.

#EuARe2022. Renewal of the Executive Committee: Elections Results

June 22, 2022

The composition of the 2022-2026 EuARe Executive Committee, as elected on Tuesday, June 22nd by the General Assembly of the European Academy of Religion is as follows:

Karla Boersma
Francesca Cadeddu
Jocelyne Cesari
Alessandro Ferrari
Hans-Peter Grosshans
Pantelis Kalaitzidis
Peter Petkoff
Herman Selderhuis
Kristina Stoeckl

#EuARe2022. Final programme

June 10, 2022

The programme of the conference is now available in its final form on the dedicated page.

Together with the daily schedule of the conference and the detailed descriptions of the panels, the booklet also contains information about the four keynote lectures, the winners of the Alberigo Award 2021, and other special events taking place during the conference.

#EuARe2022. Renewal of the Executive Committee: Extended Deadline

May 20, 2022

The deadline for submitting candidacies for the EuARe Executive Committee has been extended: interested members can send all necessary documents to the EuARe Secretariat (euare.bo@gmail.com) by Monday, May 30th.

After the call is closed, the list of candidates and all related documents and details will be forwarded to the EuARe Members by May 31st.

The list of candidates is available here.

IQSA 2022, Travel Grant

May 18, 2022

The host of the 2022 IQSA Annual Meeting, FSCIRE (La Pira Library), will offer travel grants up to € 500 to students, PhD students, post-docs, and scholars participating in the Conference to cover travel, accommodation and subsistence costs and conference fees. The grants are also accessible to those who would like to attend the meeting as auditors, i.e., without offering a conference paper.

Applicants can submit their requests May 15th-June 15th to iqsa@fscire.it and will receive a notification from the Secretariat by June 20th.

More information on how to apply is available here.

Twelfth Annual REFORC Conference

May 18, 2022

KU Leuven will be hosting the Twelfth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity, which will take place May 11-13, 2023.

The REFORC conference in Leuven starts from the idea that early modern Catholic doctrines postulating human agency vis-à-vis God’s salvatory initiative, tended to valorize humans’ autonomy to take action, not least in the realms of commerce and banking. But equally widespread is the view that the Calvinist ethics of assiduous labor, thrift, and sobriety, and the ensuing prosperity, was considered a token of God’s election. Recent scholarship discusses, moreover, the relationship between Lutheran Protestantism and the emergence of the modern Nordic welfare state. In any case, the Early Modern Era saw intensive debates between theological currents emphasizing human agency, and others attributing justification and salvation solely to God. This also raises the question of how these debates related to the rise of free entrepreneurship and the birth of the welfare state in Western Europe. The right to charge interest on borrowed money is only one, albeit important, aspect of the discussion. Theologians, moralists, and legalists also took into account rich and successful people’s anxiety for their own salvation, and held them to duties towards the poor, orphans, and widows, i.e. the biblical-juridical category of the “miserabiles personae.”

The REFORC conference in Leuven takes the four-hundredth anniversary of the death of the Jesuit Leonard Lessius — one of the founders of modern contract law and free economic initiative — as an occasion to open up the discussion to include the Jewish tradition and the various Christian confessions. Questions that can be discussed at the conference include: How did early modern Jewish and Christian thinkers see the relationship between theology of salvation, economic entrepreneurship, and social welfare? How did they view interest on borrowed money? And how did they define the responsibility of successful Christian entrepreneurs for the poor and destitute? What were the internal discussions within the various confessional groups – also with their own institutional authorities – and with other confessions? And how does all this relate to Max Weber’s now hundred-year-old theory of the spirit of Protestantism and the emergence of capitalism in Western Europe?

Go here to read more.

#EuARe2022. Alberigo Award. And the winners are...

May 18, 2022

FSCIRE, the Emilia-Romagna Region, and the European Academy of Religion are glad to announce the winners of the third edition of the Giuseppe Alberigo Award.

The Senior Award goes to Edwin Chr. Van Driel (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary) for the work Rethinking Paul. Protestant Theology and Pauline Exegesis (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

The Junior Award goes to Sarah Shortall (University of Notre Dame) for the work Soldiers of God in a Secular World. Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics (Harvard University Press, 2021).

Congratulations to the winners! The awarding ceremony will take place on Wednesday, June 22, 16:30, at FSCIRE, within the framework of the panel 1962-2022: Vatican II sixty years after. New contributions and perspectives of the historical studies on the Council.

We also praise the four finalists that have been granted a special mention of excellence for their works: Enrico Peroli, Lidia Buono and Eugenia Russo, Martina Mampieri, and Vincenzo Roberto Imperia.

Read the full news here.

RESILIENCE TNA Scholarships

May 16, 2022

RESILIENCE, the European Research Infrastructure for Religious Studies, is proud to offer its first service to the Religious Studies community: the Transnational Access (TNA) Program. Users of this program will gain direct, fast, and effective access to the collections of seven leading research institutions and universities in Europe, guided by experts in the field.

Transnational Access is the first service offered by RESILIENCE to the Religious Studies community. Users of this program will gain direct and effective access, both physical and virtual, to the unique collections and expertise of seven leading research institutions and universities in Europe. In addition, for the user, a TNA stay means faster access to resources, which means more effective use of research time. Each host institution also offers a place to work, help in navigating physical and digital collections, provides locally tailored travel and accommodation tips, as well as additional benefits unique to the institution. Crucially, the TNA user will enjoy expert guidance provided by senior scholars from the host institution, incorporating valuable networking opportunities during the research visit.

TNA Hosts

Current TNA hosts are RESILIENCE’s coordinator FSCIRE (IT), KU Leuven (BE), the Theological University of Apeldoorn (NL), the University of Sarajevo (BIH), Volos Academy for Theological Studies (GR), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Muenster (DE), and Sofiiski Universitet Sveti Kliment Ohridski (BG). In the future, other institutions may also become TNA hosts.

Call for Applications

The current call for applications is open from May 16 to July 1, 2022. Scholars at all career levels can apply for a short research visit to the host of their choice and on the conditions of that host during the academic year 2022-2023.

Go here to read the call.

#EuARe2022. Updates

May 10, 2022

#EuARe2022 is approaching. Here are some information and deadlines you might want to keep in mind for your participation.

Online Registration

Registrations are open until June 10th, according to the fees available here. As in previous years, it will also be possible to register yourself on-site during the days of the conference.

Gala Dinner

The Gala Dinner will take place on Wednesday, June 22nd, at Palazzo De' Toschi. We chose meals (you can take a look at the menu here) that we hope will satisfy as many eating habits as possible. However, if the menu doesn't meet your needs, we remind you that you can ask for a special meal by May 22nd.

Conference Venues

The main venues of the EuARe Conference will be Plesso Belmeloro, a university building in Via Andreatta, 8, and FSCIRE, in Via San Vitale, 114. Other activities will take place in Teatro San Leonardo (Via San Vitale, 63), Ateliersi (Via San Vitale, 69), and the Library of San Giorgio in Poggiale (Via Nazario Sauro, 20/2). Except for the Library, all other venues are at a minimum walking distance from one another.

RESILIENCE TNA Webinar

April 21, 2022

The University of Sarajevo (UNSA) invites all interested in its libraries and collections to a one hour webinar on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 12:00-13:00 CEST.

This seminar aims to present the Gazi Husrev-beg Library collections in Sarajevo, the oldest public library in Bosnia and Herzegovina. GHB’s manuscript collection consists of 10,585 codices of unique manuscripts which comprise about 20,000 texts of varying length in the ﬁelds of Islamic sciences, oriental languages, belles-lettres, philosophy, logic, history, medicine, veterinary science, mathematics, astronomy and others, dating from between the 12th and 20th centuries. This collection was included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register in 2017 (Manuscript collection of the Gazi Husrev-Beg Library | UNESCO). UNSA will also briefly present other special collections of GHB, such as the Ottoman archive collection and the Archives of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Participants of the webinar will have the opportunity to hear more about the efforts of the library management and staff to preserve books and other library treasures during the last war in Bosnia, from 1992 to 1995. At that time GHB Library also made the first steps in the field of conservation and digitization of its library materials. Therefore, this webinar will also include a story about the conservation, restoration, and digitization of GHB library collections, as well as the possibilities of using the GHB Digital Repository.

You can register for the webinar by filling in this form. Upon registration, you will receive a Zoom link.

The webinar is part of a series of RESILIENCE webinars focusing on its future TNA (Transnational Access) program. Read more about the series here.

#EuARe2022. Renewal of the Executive Committee

April 11, 2022

2022 will mark the end of the four-year term of service for our Executive Committee. Therefore, we are going to elect a new Executive Committee during our next General Assembly, taking place in person, on June 21st, during the 2022 EuARe Annual Conference.

As is required by our Statutes, EC members shall be chosen among the individual members of the EuARe and they are elected by the EuARe General Assembly. The EuARe Executive Committee is a key body in EuARe governance. The EuARe President, the Executive Vice-President, the Secretary-General, and the Treasurer are elected among its members; it organizes the activity of the EuARe and manages its affairs under the terms of this statute. It is composed of nine members and, with the exception of the President, they shall serve a term of four years and can be re-elected for one more term only. More on the EuARe governance is available on this page.

We invite interested members to submit their candidacies by May 20th according to the rules available here.

RESILIENCE TNA Webinar

April 4, 2022

RESILIENCE Coordinator FSCIRE invites all interested in its libraries and collections to a one hour webinar on Monday, April 11, 2022, 13:00-14:00 CET.

The webinar, Tradition and Innovation. The FSCIRE Libraries and Their Collections, will introduce the participants to the book and archival collections held by FSCIRE in its research facilities in Bologna and Palermo. In this webinar, participants will discover the wealth and diversity of these collections and how to access them and learn about some of the projects undertaken by FSCIRE to enhance their fruition.

You can register for the webinar by filling in this form. Upon registration, you will receive a Zoom link.

The webinar is part of a series of RESILIENCE webinars focusing on its future TNA (Transnational Access) program. Read more about the series here.

Some news about your accommodation in Bologna

March 28, 2022

Sunny days, international cinema festivals, open-air live music, art exhibitions, and (as always) very good food: Bologna is a must-go destination in June and, now that restrictions are being lifted, the city is ready to welcome tourists again.

Therefore, if you are planning to participate in our next annual conference, be sure to book your accommodation in advance.

Bologna's Convention & Visitors Bureau, Bologna Welcome, has granted us some interesting discounts for hotels and accommodation facilities in the city centre. Using the promo code EUARE22, this page will display discounted rates on selected hotels. The promo code applies to bookings for the following period: June 19-23.

A special code is also available for bookings at Boutique Hotel Liberty 1904 (Via Massarenti, 98/C) and The Sydney Hotel (Via Michelino, 73). The code EUARE2022 allows 10% discount on the best hotel rates and applies to bookings for June 20-23. Cancellations are allowed up to 7 days prior to the arrival.

Call for Application. La Pira Library

March 13, 2022

FSCIRE is hiring two librarians with expertise in Arabic and Persian language for its Giorgio La Pira Library and Research Center in Palermo.

Candidacies will be received until April 10, 14:00 CET at the following address: segreteria@fscire.it.

The Call for Application (only in Italian) is also available here.

#EuARe2022. Alberigo Award, List of Candidates

March 7, 2022

FSCIRE, the Emilia-Romagna Region, and the European Academy of Religion announce the list of works submitted for the third edition of the Giuseppe Alberigo Award.

The prize (Senior Award, € 7,000; Junior Award € 4,000), dedicated to the memory of Giuseppe Alberigo (1926-2007), is assigned by FSCIRE and the Emilia-Romagna Region together with the EuARe: it rewards scholars engaged in any field of religious science, whether historical, exegetical, theological or other.

Candidacies will be evaluated and voted on by May 2. The three finalists in each category will be invited to present a lecture at EuARe2022 when the President of the Emilia-Romagna Region or his delegate confers this award in a special ceremony.

Call for Candidates. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Week

March 3, 2022

Eurac Research organizes the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Week (23-27 May 2022) on “Cancel culture”, iconoclastic movements and cultural heritage: A minority rights perspective.

The MSC Week will offer postdoctoral researchers from across the globe the opportunity to work together with Eurac Research on their applications for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship. During the MSC Week, researchers will develop their fellowship proposal together with senior researchers from Eurac, learn from current MSCA Fellows, and be trained by MSCA experts and an MSCA evaluator on the dos and don’ts of the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal. After the MSC Week, the trainers will accompany the researchers in writing and fine-tuning their fellowship proposals until the submission deadline.

The programme is open to PhD-degree holders who want to apply for the Postdoctoral Fellowship at Eurac Research. If you are interested, please send your research proposal and your academic CV by 28 March 2022 to Roberta Medda.

Further information is available here.

#EuARe2022. Extended deadlines

March 3, 2022

The #EuARe2022 deadline for panel and AMC submission has been extended until April 10 at midnight (23.59, GMT+1).

Panels and Author Meets Critique proposals can be submitted through these forms:

Consequently, the call for papers has been extended to April 20. Panel proponents will therefore have some additional time to receive and evaluate paper proposals before submitting the final details of their sessions to the EuARe Secretariat on April 24.

Remember that English is the only accepted language for panels, AMC, and papers proposals.

Call for Papers. Eleventh Annual REFORC Conference, Extended Deadlines

February 28, 2022

The short paper submission deadline of the Eleventh Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity, May 4-6, 2022 at the Freie Universität in Berlin, has been extended to April 1, 2022.

The topic of the plenary lectures is Body and Soul. Comparative Studies on the Body-Soul Concept in the Pre-Modern Era.

The conference is open to individual short paper presentations (20-minute presentations) and to thematic sessions of two or three short papers. Papers can focus on all disciplines related to Early Modern Christianity, ca. 1400-1700, such as philosophy, law, history, theology, etc., independent of the theme of the plenary papers.

t is also possible to attend the conference without giving a paper.

Go here to read more information about the conference.

Call for Papers. IQSA 2022, Extended Deadlines

February 21, 2022

The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) has delayed paper submission deadlines for its fifth international conference.

The 2022 Annual Meeting (Palermo, 5-7 September 2022) welcomes papers on any topic within the range of the Quranic text’s interests, encouraging, in particular, the submission of panels that gather selected speakers invited by a presenter. Individual papers will be accepted as well.

Proposals should be submitted to iqsa@fscire.it by March 7, 2022.

If you require further information about the submission process and the organization of the panels, please contact Alba Fedeli and Devin Stewart. Any other questions concerning the practicalities of the conference in Palermo should be addressed to Francesca Badini. Finally, if you have questions regarding registration and payment should go to contactus@iqsaweb.org.

Call for Papers. Series of Conferences on Stephan Báthory

February 15, 2022

A series of conferences on Stephen Bathory, Prince of Transylvania, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Lithuania is in preparation. The organizers welcome short paper proposals for the first conference, which will take place in Budapest, September 14-16, 2022.

Stephen Bathory (1533-1586) is known in historiography as Prince of Transylvania, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. Until recently, his figure and actions were described separately in the Hungarian, Romanian, Polish and Lithuanian contexts, so that the impression could arise that Stephen Báthory, Bátory István and Stefan Batory were three different persons, who each conducted different policies in their domains.

The first conference in Budapest will focus on the political, military and diplomatic historical dimensions, economic and social historical aspects, and the Báthory family. Under the perspectives outlined above, we request innovative contributions and thematic proposals for the forthcoming conference. Further research foci, as well as supplementary questions, will be dealt with at the follow-up conferences in Warsaw and Sibiu (2023).

The deadline for abstract submissions is March 15th, 2022.

The conferences are organised by REFORC, University of Eötvös Loránd (Budapest), Institute of European History (Mainz), Institute of Protestant Theology, Landau Campus, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Sibiu, Association of Transylvanian Studies (Sibiu).

Please, visit the REFORC website for more information.

RESILIENCE TNA Webinar

February 15, 2022

KU Leuven is inviting interested scholars to its TNA Webinar on The Cardinal Willebrand Papers and Digital Archive Training, February 28, 2022, 13.00-14.00 CET.

The webinar is of interest to Vatican II, Catholic, and ecumenism historians and scholars. It is also useful for those interested in or working with digital archives and digitization, and larger research infrastructures in general.

You can register until February 25, 2022 by filling in the registration form. The webinar will take place via Zoom, and you will be notified of the Zoom link after your registration.

The webinar is part of a series of RESILIENCE webinars focusing on its future TNA (Transnational Access) program. Read more about the series here.

Research News for Münster

February 7, 2022

Find out the latest research news from the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the University of Münster:

Latest newsletter of the Cluster of Excellence published

The newsletter of the WWU Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" has been published. It presents the Cluster's second annual theme and gives information about current research results, new publications and conferences at the Cluster of Excellence.

Find the newsletter here.

New research projects expand the Cluster of Excellence’s spectrum of themes

The Cluster of Excellence has expanded its research programme with seven new projects from the disciplines of history, Slavic studies, Protestant theology, Coptic studies, and Arabic studies. The new projects range from religion in the ancient Mediterranean to secularism in France in the 20th century. The seven University of Münster professors took part in an ideas contest organized by the Cluster of Excellence to establish new research projects on “Religion and Politics”.

Read the full article here.

Right-wing Christians exploit theology for their own ideas of the social order

According to research, new right-wing Christians are using theological ideas to bolster their political positions. “In this way, they legitimize their striving for an anti-plural social order that they claim used to exist in earlier epochs. But this order never in fact existed“, says social ethicist and Protestant theologian Prof. Dr. Arnulf von Scheliha from the University of Münster’s Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”. “That such religious notions are prevalent in right-wing politics has received little attention so far.”

Read the full article here.

“Looking into the future when it’s hard to bear the present”

Molybdomancy on New Year’s Eve, annual horoscopes, tarot cards – divination has always been an attempt to deal with the uncertain future. “Divination has been especially popular in times of crisis, when worry about the future is difficult to bear, as in the pandemic today. In the face of epidemics, religious conflict, bad harvests, or times of war, for example, people in the early modern period urgently sought predictions. But people also consulted supernatural powers about their personal fate, too”, explains historian Prof. Dr. Ulrike Ludwig from the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”.

Read the full article here.

Recent escalation of violence in Myanmar reveals complex struggles over identity

Destruction of entire villages, blockades by the military junta of international aid deliveries: according to religious studies scholar Prof. Dr. Perry Schmidt-Leukel and theologian Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Großhans, complex struggles over identity that have been unresolved for decades are behind the latest escalation of violence in Myanmar. The researchers of the Cluster of Excellence have published one of the most comprehensive books to date on the connections between ethnic and religious identities, and the identity politics, of Myanmar

Read the full article here .

Maltreated imperial corpses and digital cemetery events: Historical practices of caring for the dead

Dismembering corpses, boiling down mortal remains, politically critical inscriptions on gravestones – past practices of caring for the dead often seem strange today, but, according to historians, they can be understood in the context of their time. “Care of the dead in earlier epochs was not irreverent, but rather an expression of care and appreciation for the deceased person”, explains the byzantinist Prof. Dr. Michael Grünbart from the University of Münster’s Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”.

Read the full article here.

Lecture series “Tradition(s)”

The second annual theme opened with an interdisciplinary lecture series dealing with tradition(s) in the course of history. Ranging from antiquity to the present, the seven lectures used the example of various traditions to show the importance of transmission processes and to explore how different actors interact in such processes. The lectures ranged thematically from the ancient Egyptian god Amun, to tradition and innovation in Arabic literature, and to the transmission of religious traditions in families today. The series featured members of the Cluster of Excellence and the University of Münster from the disciplines of Egyptology, Arabic studies, Catholic theology, philosophy, law, Romance studies, and sociology.

Read the full article here .

The lectures in the lecture series “Tradition(s)” can be viewed as videos in German on the Cluster of Excellence website.

RESILIENCE TNA Webinar

February 1, 2022

Albanian University in collaboration with the General Directorate of Archives, Albania, invites you to join the upcoming webinar The Central State Archive of Albania. A short history and its collection of religious documents.

The webinar, promoted by RESILIENCE, will be held online on February 17, 2022, 14:00 (CET).

The Microsoft Teams meeting is open to anyone (academics, researchers, Religious Studies scholars, journalists, policymakers etc.) interested in the study of religion today. You will receive a link to the online meeting room after your registration.

Visit the RESILIENCE website to know more about the Archives of Albania, the goals of the webinar and how to participate.

Call for Papers. IQSA 2022

February 1, 2022

The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) is happy to announce its fifth international conference, September 5-7, 2022, hosted by the “Giorgio La Pira” Library (Palermo, Italy).

The 2022 Annual Meeting welcomes papers on any topic within the range of the Quranic text’s interests, encouraging, in particular, the submission of panels that gather selected speakers invited by a presenter. Individual papers will be accepted as well.

Proposals should be submitted to iqsa@fscire.it by February 21, 2022.

More details are available here.

Call for Papers. St. Symeon, the New Theologian

January 26, 2022

On the occasion of the millenary anniversary of the dormition of St. Symeon, the New Theologian (1022-2022), the Volos Academy for Theological Studies organizes an international conference to commemorate his personality, thought, and contribution to Orthodox theology and spirituality, which will take place in Volos, Greece, in a physical form, May 26-29, 2022, in compliance with all the enforced by the European and state sanitary measures.

Junior and early career scholars are invited to submit proposals for short papers (15 min.) which preferably should be related to one of the thematic axes of the conference.

The working languages of the conference are English and Greek (simultaneous translation to be provided). Provisional title, abstract (max. 350 words) and a concise CV (max. 200 words) should be submitted to Dr Nikos Kouremenos by March 4, 2022.

For more information about the conference, submission and evaluation process, travel and accommodation, and publication of the conference proceedings, please visit: https://acadimia.org/en/news-announcements/press/933-call-for-papers-for-the-international-conference-of-the-volos-academy-on-st-symeon-the-new-theologian.

Call for Papers. Living Tradition

January 17, 2022

Societas Oecumenica welcomes paper proposals for its 21st Academic Consultation “Living Tradition: Continuity and Change as Challenges to Churches and Theologies.”

The Consultation will take place in Malta, May 5-10, 2022.

Junior and senior scholars are invited to submit proposals for short papers (20 minutes) which preferably address the theme of the conference and its sub-themes.

Abstract proposals (approximately 250 words) should be submitted by the deadline of
January 30, 2022 to societasoecumenica@gmail.com.

Read the call for papers in full to know more about the topic of the conference, how to apply, and the evaluation process.

Alberigo School for Advanced Religious Studies. Seminars

January 15, 2022

We are pleased to share the schedule of the 2022 research seminars organised by FSCIRE in the frame of the «Giuseppe Alberigo» School for Advanced Religious Studies.

The seminars are held by internationally renowned scholars and cove a wide range of interests and research lines, both in the history of Christianity and in the history and doctrines of Islam.

Students and scholars who wish to attend (either online or in-person) are invited to email altascuola@fscire.it. Notifications about possible re-schedulings or cancellations will be advertised here.

More information about the «Giuseppe Alberigo» School for Advanced Religious Studies is available at this link.

Call for Applications. Three Post-Doc Positions at Trento, Innsbruck, and Brixen

January 12, 2022

The Center for Religious Studies at the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento has just announced a two-year post-doc position for a research project funded by the Euregio Science Fund and focused on the resistance of beliefs, especially, but not just religious beliefs, to change.

Candidacies will be accepted until February 11th.

The project includes three coordinated postdoc positions. The other two are at the University of Innsbruck and the Philosophical Theological College of Brixen/Bressanone.

Read the call in full for more information on the "Resilient Beliefs" research project and how to apply.

#EuARe2022. Registrations are open!

January 10, 2022

We are happy to announce that the registration for the conference is now open.

You can register for #EuARe2022 from Monday, January 10 to Friday, June 10.

There will be different registration periods and special conference rates for EuARe members as in previous years.

Please, visit the dedicated page for more details about the registration process and fees.

#EuARe2022. Call for Papers

January 10, 2022

#EuARe2022 Call for Papers opens today!

Papers will be allowed to be proposed within the open call panels published on this page: https://www.europeanacademyofreligion.org/conference-schedule.

Paper submissions will be directly received and evaluated by the person responsible for the panel proposal.

The deadline for submission is Sunday, April 3, 2022 (23:59, GMT+1).

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