10.30 a.m. Wednesday 5th to 2 p.m. on Friday 7th September 2012 at the Divinity School, St John’s College, University of Cambridge

Call for Papers

The fact that religion has not privatised, but remains an important aspect of public life, is now well recognised. But talk of ‘public religion’ can be vague and unfocused. The aim of this conference is to explore – with new findings – the forms which public religion is taking today, not only in the West, but elsewhere in an increasingly connected world.

Theme: Preservation and Access: Facilitating Research in Information and Religion

Dates: May 18-19, 2012
Keynote: Carisse Mickey Berryhill, Ph.D., Special Collections Librarian, Abilene Christian University

The Center for the Study of Information and Religion (CSIR) will host its Second Annual International Conference on Information and Religion at Kent State University on May 18 and 19, 2012.

http://www.kent.edu/slis/research/csir/conference-2012.cfm

The International Conference
Crossroads of Civilizations: Media, Religion and Culture
July 8-12, 2012
Anadolu University
Eskisehir, TURKEY
(in between Istanbul and Ankara)

http://mrc.anadolu.edu.tr/index.htmlhttp://mrc.anadolu.edu.tr/index.html

Deadline for paper, panel, workshop, and roundtable proposals: January 31, 2012

Interfaith Meet to Discuss Role of Social Media
2011-10-18

The ninth Doha Conference on Interfaith Dialogue to be held here next week will discuss how to make use of social media to promote inter-religious dialogue and the need for a global code of conduct on the use of social networking sites from a religious perspective. The conference will take place at the Doha Sheraton from October 24 to October 26.

Conference Call for Papers
The International Conference
Crossroads of Civilizations: Media, Religion and Culture
July 8-12, 2012
Anadolu University
Eskisehir, TURKEY
(in between Istanbul and Ankara)

Deadline for paper, panel, workshop, and roundtable proposals: January 31, 2012

The International Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, organized every two years by the International Society for Media, Religion, and Culture, invites papers for its July 8-12, 2012 conference to be held in Eskisehir, Turkey (outside of Istanbul), at Anadolu University.

Call for papers 
Religious Socialization in Our Time
The 21st Nordic Conference for Sociology of Religion
Umeå University, Sweden
August 14-17, 2012

http://www.ncsr.nu

Religious socialization can be defined as the process by which new generations gradually acquire the religious values and ideas of older generations. In that process there are conscious agents, partly with differing agendas: parents, religious organizations and society.

Heidi Campbell, a professor at Texas A&M University, posted on her blog the most important information about the upcoming Digital Religion Symposium & Workshop she is organizing at her university, including

This event will feature presentations by recognized experts in this area:

Pauline Cheong, Associate Professor of Communication at Arizona State University, presenting her work on authority online especially as they related to Buddhist and Christian engagement with new media

Nabil Echchaibi, Assistant Professor of Mass Communication at University of Colorado-Boulder, presenting on Islam and the Internet and related issues of religious identity negotiation online

Christopher Helland, Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion at Dalhousie University (Canada), presenting on issues of ritual and authenticity related to Buddhist & Hindu online contexts

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting
October 28-30, 2011
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Research in the Scientific Study of Religion: from the Local to the Cross-National 

Research on religion from social scientific perspectives takes many different forms. It varies by discipline, theoretical orientation, research questions, methodological strategy, available funding, and so on. This year’s meeting will focus on the question of how the processes of research take place at levels ranging from the local to the cross-national.

Following the emphasis in last year’s call for papers on religion in global perspective, the aim will be to examine the challenges that face researchers working at the local, national, international, and cross-national levels. This will involve discussion of the material, academic, political, legal and intellectual conditions that help to frame religion as an object for research at these levels. With these themes in mind, a special plenary session will examine two large-scale programs of research on religion in the UK and Canada. Other sessions will explore the variety of approaches to research in the scientific study of religion in different regions of the world.

Proposals for sessions and papers on any topic in the scientific study of religion are welcome. We particularly invite proposals that shed light on the opportunities and challenges of researching religion. This year’s meeting will showcase the diversity of scholarly debates about the concepts, theories, and methods that inform research. It will also highlight the opportunities for collaborative work, the training of researchers, and the limitations imposed on their investigations. As usual, presentations on the findings of research on any aspect of religion are strongly encouraged.

All session and paper proposals must be submitted via the on-line submission system that will be available on the SSSR’s web site, www.sssrweb.org, beginning January 15, 2011. In addition to the session proposer’s full contact information, a session proposal requires a session title and an abstract of not more than 150 words describing the goal of the session and how the proposer expects the session to contribute to scientific knowledge about religion. Paper proposals require the name(s) of the author(s), first author’s full contact information, an abstract of not more than 150 words that succinctly describes the question(s) motivating the research, the data and methods used, and what the paper contributes or expects to contribute to the knowledge or understanding of religion. The submission deadline is March 1, 2011.

Important Dates

Submissions Open: January 15, 2011 (see http://www.sssrweb.org)
Submissions Close: March 1, 2011
Decision Notification: April 5, 2011

Please direct questions to:                     

Stephen McMullin, Program Chair                 
Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada               
stephen.mcmullin@acadiau.ca   

Source: http://www.sssrweb.org/news.cfm?newsid=152