2015
African Studies in the 21st Century, Ibadan, October 13-17, 2015: Call for Panels and Paper Proposals
The First ASAA (African Studies Association of Africa) International Conference will take place at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ibadan from 13 to 17 October 2015 on the theme: African Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Past, Present, and Future’ Paper and panel proposals are invited before March 30, 2015.
2014
Islamism and Post-Islamism: Religious and Political Transformations in Muslim Societies; Call for Papers
Islamism and Post-Islamism: Religious and Political Transformations in Muslim Societies; Call for Papers, Interdisciplinary International Conference, 13-14 March 2015, Queens University, School of Religion, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Paper proposals should be e-mailed to Professor Mehmet Karabela (mehmet.karabela@queensu.ca) no later than January 25, 2015.
2014
Invitation to join UCT Research Project on Religious Education in South Africa
University of Cape Town
Department of Religious Studies
Religion Education in South Africa
Religion education is a highly contested topic in our societies and communities, and merits critical analysis. Join our on-going project that seeks answers to the following:
• How is Religion taught at schools?
• What contribution does the Subject make to Society?
• What values are being promoted?
• How does Religion Education in South Africa compare with global developments and challenges?
Application deadline for Honours, Masters, PhD, Postdoc : 09 January 2015
For more information please contact: Nabowayah.Kafaar@uct.ac.za or (+27 21) 650 3889
University of Cape Town, Department of Religious Studies, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7701
SARCHI Chair Funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Administered by the National Research Foundation
NABOWAYAH KAFAAR, RESEARCH ASSISTANT TO PROF ABDULKADER TAYOB
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
Room 5.46 | Robert Leslie Social Science Building | Upper Campus
Email: Nabowayah.Kafaar@uct.ac.za
Telephone: +27 (0) 21 650 3889
Fax: +27 (0) 21 689 7575
2014
AASR Member Esther Acolatse gives distinguished lecture…
The AASR would like to recognize Dr. Esther Acolatse, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Pastoral Theology and World Christianity at Duke Divinity School, who was the keynote speaker at the 2nd annual Stanley Grenz Lecture Series at the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. Her address was titled, “Exploring the Contours of Enchantment: Perspectives from the Global South.”
Abstract:
What can we learn from the dramatic growth of the Christian Church in other cultural contexts? The Christian Church in the Global South is exploding and that explosion is being translated into the North Atlantic context as being “glocal,” and explained as the proliferation of migrant churches. However, little attention has been paid to the undercurrents of this ferment, and the hybrid offering that runs from the original spaces to the tributaries worldwide that could revitalize the theological imagination of the global church. In this session Dr. Acolatse will suggest that the source of vitality in the Global South is “enchantment.” Due to the religio-cultural atmosphere in which these Southern churches are birthed and nurtured, the primal religious sensibilities that are seamlessly woven into the Christian experience and expression and the ability of the leaders to invite and draw believers into the world picture and the stories of the Scriptures, mystery remains. Within this milieu lie both the promise and the challenge of the enchantment that fuels the explosion of Christianity in the global south.
Congratulations, Dr. Acolatse on this important lecture!
More information about this event can be found at this link: http://theseattleschool.edu/ai1ec_event/grenz-lecture-1/
2014
Call for Papers: Religion, Violence, and Peace Conference
The Human Rights and Global Justice Research Group at Wake Forest University
invites paper proposals for a conference on the broad topic of
Religion, Violence, and Peace
9-11 April 2015 – (Winston-Salem, North Carolina).
Deadline proposals: December 15, 2014
Our chief aim is to bring together multi-disciplinary scholars working on the topic of religion, violence, and peacemaking from historical as well as contemporary perspectives. In particular, we are interested in papers that probe the complex patterns of interaction between religious commitments and violence in a variety of cultural and regional contexts, the ways in which violence is sacralized, and the use of religious beliefs and practices to justify, mitigate or redirect violence in less destructive channels.
Through keynote presentations and group discussion after each speaker, this conference will provide opportunities to deepen our understanding of the patterns of religious violence and the nature and scope of our moral responses to them.
Synthesis and dialogue will be facilitated by asking presenters from one day to serve as respondents on the other day and keynote speakers whose research explicitly addresses the intersections between religion and violence. We plan to publish the best papers from the conference.
Among the topics papers might address are the following:
– The roots of different types of violence in their specific contexts
– The use of religious texts as legitimation of violence; competing interpretations of religious texts to incite or to oppose violence.
– Religious violence perpetrated by the State.
– Assessments of religious ethical approaches to war and peacemaking;
– Religious violence as a tool of state domestic and/or foreign policy
– Models of religious responses to violence;
– Religious strategies of conflict resolution and peacemaking initiatives
– Non-Muslim minorities in religiously pluralistic context.
– Gendered strategies to promote or counter violence.
– The role of violence in sustaining cultures of faith, economy, and collective and personal identity
– Political and economic factors that influence certain forms of violence.
– The links between religion, violence and economic conditions.
– The impact of education and the role of children.
– Religious justification of the use of violence to promote religious rights and human rights.
Submission Details:
Please send abstracts of approximately 500 – 800 words to both:
Simeon Ilesanmi (ilesanmi@wfu.edu) and Nelly van Doorn-Harder
(vandoopa@wfu.edu). Deadline: December 15, 2014.
An affiliate of the WFU Humanities Institute, the Human Rights and Global Justice Research Group is an incubator and a hub for faculty research, programs, and events devoted to issues of human rights and global justice.
