Call to Contribute to a New Grant on New Religions. Grant title: New Religiosity and the Digital Study of Eudaimonia Co-PIs: Stephen Christopher and Suzanne Newcombe We are currently recruiting 200 scholars of new religions to complete a large poll called the "New Religiosity Poll" (NRP). You can see a PDF version of the poll here: The Database of Religious History. The actual poll is interactive.  We estimate it will take about 14 hours to complete. You do not answer all the questions ...Continue Reading

Critical Research on Religion Volume 13, Number 3 (December 2025) Table of Contents: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/CRR/current Articles: “Rendering unto Caesar: Receptions of the Bible as a source for secularism” Hannah M Strømmen “Religious ideologies, legitimation, and citizenship in “second republic” Zimbabwe” Theophilus Tinashe Nenjerama and Tavengwa Gwekwerere “Pulpit, power, and predation: “Yahoo Men of God,” prosperity theology, and the Twin Fraud Triangles” Suleman Lazarus, Peter Tickner and Mark ...Continue Reading

Method and Theory: CFP CALL FOR PAPERS – FEBRUARY 2025 – METHOD AND THEORY IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION https://naasr.com/2025/02/09/method-and-theory-cfp/ ...Continue Reading

Critical Research on Religion Volume: 13, Number: 2 (August 2025) Table of Contents https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/CRR/current Articles: “The Requerimiento and the Theological ‘Knot’ of European Expansionism: Jews, Muslims, and the Arawakan-speaking peoples of the Caribbean in Juan López de Palacios Rubios’s Juridical theory of Dominion (1512)” by Rady Roldán-Figueroa “Post-secularism as the secularism of the exit of secularism: Australia as a case study of passé secularism” by Adam Possamai ...Continue Reading

Critical Research on Religion Volume: 13, Number: 1 (April 2025) Table of Contents: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/CRR/current      Editorial: “Israel/Palestine: Towards a one-state solution” bt Warren S Goldstein Articles: “Muslim’s perception of the United States of America: The case of Said Nursi” by Sadettin Orhan "‘We have suffered enough and it may even get worse if care is not taken’: Discussing the role of churches in the 2023 general election in a Nigerian town” by Ki ...Continue Reading

*The Power of Marxist Thought* York University, Toronto /Friday & Saturday, 26–27 September 2025/ CALL FOR PAPERS Claims about the importance of Marxism typically and understandably focus on its historic role in analyzing political, social and economic life. This conference will assess the impact and importance of Marxism in the context of the wider intellectual realm, and how central theory is to its very existence. We seek papers by scholars from across disciplines, including but not limited to anthropology, ec ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues, The Sociology of Religion Unit of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) is happy to announce our CFP for the AAR Annual Meeting held Nov. 22-25, 2025, in Boston. Proposals are due on *March 3, 2024, at 5:00 EST*.  You can find our CFP below the signature line of this email, or visit our webpage here:  https://papers.aarweb.org/group/15039 Instructions for submitting proposals can be found here: https://papers.aarweb.org/aar-login https://papers.aarweb.org/sites/default/files/uploa ...Continue Reading

Dear List, Here is a good one: Job Announcement: Professorship in Critical Religion Studies and Comparative Philosophy, Ghent University https://jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Professor-in-Critical-Religion-Studies-&-Comparative-Philosophy-%28BOF%29-9000/810167202/ Warren S. Goldstein, PhD Cener for Critical Research on Religion goldstein@PROTECTED www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org ...Continue Reading

Critical Research on Religion Volume 12 Issue 3, December 2024 Special Issue: Genders, Sexualities, and Theopastoral Imaginations in Southeast Asia Guest Editors: Joseph N. Goh and Michael Sepidoza Campos Table of Contents: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/CRR/current Introduction:  “Coming in and finding ground: Genders, sexualities, and theopastoral imaginations in Southeast Asia” by Joseph N. Goh and Michael Sepidoza Campos Articles: 1. “Who am I? Whom can I love? And why me? Queer Christians and the spi ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues, The Sociology of Religion Unit is excited to share with you our sessions for this year’s AAR annual meeting. We also invite you to join us for our business meeting on *Sunday, Nov. 24* at 2:00-2:30, which is at the tail end of our 12:30-2:30 session. We would love to hear your ideas for next year's CFP! We also have an opening on our steering committee, so we welcome you to contact us about serving on the steering committee or participating in our unit. Saturday, Nov. 23, 3:00-4:30 *Atheist Influe ...Continue Reading