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Open Theology invites submissions for the topical issue “The Bible and Migration”, prepared in collaboration with the conference The Bible on the Move: Toward a Biblical Theology of Migration, held at Fuller Theological Seminary in January 2020. This special issue asks how cutting-edge biblical scholarship should inform conversation about and action relating to migration in the twenty-first century, bridging the gap between biblical studies, theology, and activism. Articles should examine how the biblical texts reflect diverse migrant experiences, as well as ways in which these texts reflect theologically on migration and appropriate responses to it among migrants and host communities. Articles may also critically interrogate the Bible’s use in arguments over migration and migrants’ reception by host communities.
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Approches croisées des changements religieux
IXe congrès de l’Association française de sociologie « Changer ? » – RTn°43 sociologie et religions
La sociologie des religions française s’est structurée dans les années 1960 autour de concepts – la sécularisation, la pluralisation religieuse, l’individualisation des pratiques et croyances – qui accordent une place centrale à la notion de changement, en y associant des connotations positives (la « modernité » religieuse) ou négatives (le registre de la perte) et analysée à différents échelles (individuelle, organisationnelle etc.). Tout en tenant compte des apports de ces paradigmes, l’objectif du réseau thématique sera de s’éloigner des approches théoriques qui seraient spécifiques aux religieux en s’interrogeant sur le travail de sélection et de catégorisation à l’œuvre : comment définir ce qui est « religieux » ? Comment appréhender objectivement ou subjectivement le changement ?
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Leuven
Christian-Muslim Missionary Encounters, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Mission and Modernity Research Academy (MiMoRA#3)
The study of missionary work occupies a central place in the interdisciplinary body of scholarship on relations and exchanges between Christianity and Islam in pre-modern as well as modern times. Most notably from the nineteenth century onwards, missions became an essential aspect of the globalization and modernization of these two ‘world religions’. Scholars from various disciplines have discovered the missionary encounter as a ‘space’ par excellence to observe and analyze Christian-Muslim interactions, which range from rejection and conflict to dialogue and mutual exchange. This research requires the breaching of the boundaries between disciplines, languages, scripts, archival heuristics, geographical and chronological specialisms; and the creation of an interdisciplinary scholarly dialogue. The aim of this international and multidisciplinary week-long research academy is to stimulate further critical study of the multilateral research on Christian-Muslim contacts and relationships in missionary contexts.
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Paris
Thinking with José Casanova. Deprivatisation of the clergy
French Association for the Social Sciences of Religions
José Casanova (Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Université de Georgetown, USA) a contribué à renouveler l’étude des religions dans la sphère publique et dans les relations internationales. Théoricien de la déprivatisation (deprivatization) du religieux, il est un des chercheurs les plus importants et les plus reconnus pour penser le « retour des religions ». Nous entendons mettre en place sur toute une journée un dialogue direct et approfondi avec lui dans le cadre d’un format original : une masterclass. Le présent appel invite donc chercheuses et chercheurs souhaitant mener une discussion avec son œuvre à proposer une intervention. L’enjeu est d’ouvrir le champ de la discussion sur son œuvre, sur les axes centraux de sa pensée (déprivatisation et transnationalisation du religieux), mais toute contribution sur un autre aspect de son oeuvre (politisation, désaffiliation, interreligieux, laïcité...) ou à partir de terrains nouveaux est bienvenue.
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Louvain-la-Neuve
La présente conférence se centrera sur le thème de la pudeur (hayâ’) dans l’islam, ses conceptions, ses réceptions et ses perceptions dans le monde musulman et le monde occidental. Comment comprendre les tensions majeures qui surviennent aujourd’hui sans une compréhension plus précise et mieux ancrée de la tradition islamique et de ses contextes, mais aussi dans ses lectures croisées et ses réinterprétations externes ?
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Yaoundé
Extremism, wars, peace and development in Africa since the independences
L’Université Protestante d’Afrique Centrale (UPAC) au Cameroun, à travers son département Paix et développement (PD) invite les universitaires des sciences humaines et sociales, les représentants de la société civile, des organisations non gouvernementales, les religieux, et bien d’autres, à une réflexion profonde en vue de montrer que la fragilité qui caractérise les États africains soixante ans après les indépendances relève des extrémismes de toutes sortes qui y ont généré des guerres sans cesse, dissipé la paix et compromis les nombreux efforts de construction et de consolidation des États de droits, stables et prospères. Une réflexion qui pourrait aider à exorciser les démons de la guerre qui traumatisent les peuples africains depuis les indépendances.
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Naples
Historiography of the Perception of Islam through Manuscripts, Korans and their Displacement
The aim of this workshop is to approach the question of the relationship between Christianity and Islam through the study of the production, circulation and uses of Arabic manuscripts, and mainly Korans, in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean Europe. Our assumption is that the Balkans, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula form an axis of circulation which is especially significant for our understanding of the Mediterranean Sea as a comprehensive space of cultural, political and religious contact.
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Jarandilla de la Vera
Ancient religion in rural settlements
XVIII International ARYS Conference
This conference aims to deconstruct the ideas of rural religion as mechanically reproducing urban rituals and religious hierarchies and of the rural world as a space of cultural and religious resilience against urbanity. Rural areas represented an arena for very situational processes of negotiation between, on the one hand, administrative patterns and related social configurations, and, on the other hand, processes of social conformance to the very characteristics of a local specific rural environment, of adaptation to its peculiar habitus and religious customs, possibly involving gods whose competences directly mirrored a geophysical environment made of mountains, rivers, woods, etc.
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Málaga
Calling upon Gods, Offering Bodies
Strategies of Human-Divine Communication in the Roman Empire from Individual Experience to Social Reproduction
The Department of Historical Science at the University of Málaga and the Institute of Historiography “Julio Caro Baroja” at the University of Carlos III of Madrid are organizing an international conference titled “Calling upon gods, offering bodies. Strategies of human-divine communication in the Roman Empire from individual experience to social reproduction”. Researchers of Ancient History, History of Religion, Archaeology, Anthropology, Classics, and other related fields are invited to present their research on this topic. The conference aims at analysing how self-experience of religious communication becomes a reflexive phenomenon reproduced in time and space to constitute a collectively shared narrative.
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L'appel à communication pour la revue Questions de communication consacré à « la religion sous le regard du tiers » s'intéresse à la façon dont le religieux est produit, montré ou soustrait au regard, observé, compris et interprété, à partir d'un ensemble de signes, dans l'espace public.
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Women and gender in the Bible and the biblical world
Open Theology invites submissions for the topical issue “Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World”, prepared in collaboration with the conference "Women and Gender in the Bible and the Ancient World", held by University of Glasgow.
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Existential conceptions of the relationship between Philosophy and Theology
We invite submissions for the topical issue of Open Theology entitled “Existential Conceptions of the Relationship between Philosophy and Theology”. This issue is prepared in connection with the conference “Figuring Existence” held in collaboration with the Centre of Theology and Modern European Thought, University of Oxford. This special issue aims to explore and reflect on the ways in which the relationship between philosophy and theology is conceived, problematised, and illuminated in existential or existentialist thought.
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Issues and approaches in contemporary theological yhought about evil
Open Theology invites submissions for the topical issue “Issues and Approaches in Contemporary Theological Thought about Evil”, edited by John Culp (Azusa Pacific University, USA).
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Religious experience and description
Phenomenology of Religious Experience IV
Open Theology invites submissions for the topical issue “Phenomenology of Religious Experience IV: Religious Experience and Description”, prepared in collaboration with the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience.
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Noumea
Maurice Leenhardt, Context and heritage
Le Colloque « Maurice Leenhardt, Contexte et héritages » se propose de saisir Maurice Leenhardt à travers un réseau de relations personnelles et/ou institutionnelles, afin de dégager la complexité et les contradictions du missionnaire-ethnologue, ainsi que l’influence ambivalente de son œuvre littéraire et scientifique jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Ceci concerne les relations de Leenhardt avec des personnalités particulières, mais également ses relations avec les sphères sociale, politique, intellectuelle ou religieuse de l’époque. Les influences théoriques, le parcours personnel, les contacts, éclairent en particulier certains aspects idéologiques de la pratique missionnaire de Maurice LEENHARDT. Le contexte colonial et historique dans lequel s’inscrivent ses séjours en Nouvelle Calédonie explique pareillement l’héritage ambivalent autour d’une personnalité qui suscite encore aujourd’hui un mélange de respect et de méfiance.
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Paris
Maternal Sacrifice in Jewish Culture
Rethinking Sacrifice from a Maternal Perspective in Religion, Art, and Culture
The phrase “maternal sacrifice” combines two complex terms entangled in an even more complex dynamic. First of all, “sacrifice”, a word whose definitions have been considered inadequate to describe the multiformity of practices and meanings it evokes as a ritual, as a narrative, and as a metaphor. James Watts distinguishes between “narrative traditions about killing people”, oriented towards an evaluation of killing and murder, and “the ritual killing of animals”, focused on the social functions of ritual and religion (Watts 2011, 8). To those categories a third level can be added that is related to the metaphorical use of the notion of sacrifice as the act of giving up something in order to attain a higher goal.
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Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
Déjà évoqué chez des auteurs fondateurs des sciences sociales françaises, puis repris dans des études classiques sur le jeu, l’étude des rapports entre jeux et faits religieux connaît un renouveau d’intérêt depuis quelques années dans le monde anglo-saxon, et plus spécifiquement dans le domaine des jeux vidéo. Le Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet a consacré plusieurs numéros à cette thématique, et une nouvelle revue, Gamevironments, lui est entièrement consacrée. Cet appel à contribution invite les chercheurs francophones à investir ce champ de recherche et à l’élargir à tout type de jeux afin d’éclairer la diversité des manières d’aborder ces questions. Les différents axes proposés ici ne sont pas exhaustifs et toute proposition consacrée aux rapports entre jeux et faits religieux est la bienvenue et sera évaluée.
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Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Theology
We invite submission of papers dedicated to the phenomenologically determined themes of imagination, image-consciousness, appearance and the non-apparent, phenomenological ontology, and genetic phenomenology, with regard to religious experience. We further invite innovative philosophical and theological reflections on image, imagination, and creativity in religious experiencing, as well as reflections on a reverse problem of how religious experience contributes to the above mentioned faculties examined in the psychological horizon.
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Conception, birth and childhood
“New Comparative Mythology” Journal, 5
New Comparative Mythology, a peer-reviewed journal of comparative mythology with an international editorial board, issues, for its fifth volume, a call for papers on the topic “conception, birth and childhood”. In many mythologies, these three initial phases of the existence of divine, heroic, monstrous and other figures have given rise to many traditions. In addition, various beliefs and practices, which are lent legendary or mythical precedents, also rhythm this period which goes from the fertilization to the edge of the initiatory phase of the individuals. It is on the comparative study of this vast field of research that the articles submitted to our review will have to relate.
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Porto
Percursos, transferências e intermedialidade
O colóquio O Gesto e a Crença, organizado no âmbito das atividades do grupo Sociabilidades e Práticas Religiosas (CITCEM), pretende ser uma plataforma de debate internacional e interdisciplinar para jovens investigadores que desenvolvam o seu trabalho no âmbito dos Estudos de Religião. Com o intuito de difundir novas perspetivas sobre as diversas vivências do religioso, este colóquio encontra-se aberto a contributos das mais diversas áreas das Ciências Sociais e Humanas, de modo a desenvolver campos de análise plurais e comparativos.
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