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Call for Papers: Religious Studies and Theology
Religious Studies and Theology—a journal for which several NAASR members serve on the editorial board—is looking for submissions. This peer-reviewed journal publishes in June and December; however manuscripts are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year.
Religious Studies and Theology welcomes original research pertinent to the contemporary world from a range of disciplines, with a particular interest in Canadian perspectives and/or studies of Canada from abroad and in relation to global contexts.
Manuscript submission is easily completed online here. Submissions are sent by the Editor to two peer-reviewers in a double-blind process. You will be notified within one week of submission if your manuscript has been sent for review. You will be notified of the decision within approximately three months and will be provided with a copy of reviewer comments.
New Issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (44.3)
Editorial- open access
Texts and their scholars: the co-production of texts, audiences, and communities.
Arlene L. Macdonald
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/BSOR/article/view/28286
Articles
Religion Past and Present — The English Translation of the 4th edition: Introducing an AAR/SBL Review Panel
Klaus-Peter Adam
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/BSOR/article/view/24176
Review of Articles in the Field of Hebrew Bible in Religion Past and Present
Klaus-Peter Adam
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/BSOR/article/view/28061
New Testament Studies in Religion Past and Present
Richard E. DeMaris
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/BSOR/article/view/24350
Canon and Curation: What does the Completion of RPP mean for North American Students of Theology, Church History, and Philosophy?
Robert Saler
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/BSOR/article/view/28018
The Approach to the Social Sciences in Religion Past and Present
Robert Alan Segal
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/BSOR/article/view/28018
Galen, De indolentia, and Early Christian Literature
Trevor Wade Thompson
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/BSOR/article/view/27924
Disruptive Narratives of Jesus: Feuerbach and Ricoeur in Dialogue
Catherine Caufield
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/BSOR/article/view/27732
Editor’s Corner: Critics or Caretakers? It’s All in the Mapping
Philip L. Tite
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/BSOR/article/view/26866
Teaching Tips
Signifying on the World Religions Paradigm: My Version of Religion 101
Richard Newton
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/BSOR/article/view/27908
Field Notes
Field Notes: News and Announcements in the Discipline
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/BSOR/article/view/28232
New Issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (44.2)
Editorial
Religious Proximity and Cultural Distance: An Introduction on the East/West Dichotomy Philip L. Tite
Articles
“Never the ‘Twain Shall Meet”: Disorienting East and West in Teaching and Scholarship
James Mark Shields
The Grey Matters: The Use and Abuse of East/West Taxonomies
Sarah F. Haynes
The Pedagogical Issues of Teaching “Eastern” and “Western” Traditions
T. Nicole Goulet
“Weasternization” of the West: Kumbh Mela as a Pilgrimage Place For Spiritual Seekers from the West
Marianne C. Qvortrup Fibiger
Roundtable on East/West
Philip L. Tite,
North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR): An Interview with Russell McCutcheon
Matt K. Sheedy
NAASR Notes
Matt K. Sheedy
Tips on Teaching
Getting Students Out of the Classroom and into the Pews
Melissa Deckman
Resources of Interest: Body and Religion
Equinox is pleased to announce the launch of a new journal commencing in 2016. For more information about submissions and subscriptions please visit the journal home page:
“Body and Religion is an internationally peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal devoted to all issues of body and religion. We welcome English-language submissions from scholars who use diverse methodologies and approaches, ranging from traditional to innovative, to explore issues of “body” as a fundamental analytical category in the study of religion. We seek to publish the widest possible diversity of critical inquiry into the relationships between all manner of bodies; concepts of “body,” and both traditional and alternative religious traditions, popular culture, literature, the arts, psychology, philosophy, the natural sciences, national and social movements, gender and sexuality, modification and transformation, underground/alternative culture, time periods, and regions.
The journal provides a forum for the study of all manner of ancient and contemporary practices, concerns, ideals, and connections or disconnections between body and religion. Essays and analyses are capable of being delivered on a multi-media platform, assisting in examining performances, rituals, and other topics that are not easily captured in print. However, alternate and innovative presentations must include a significant written portion for print, while corresponding extra color art, video, and other media will be included on the journal website and in other electronic forms.”
Resources of Interest: Fieldwork In Religion
Fieldwork in Religion is an internationally peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal. The journal publishes articles, review essays and book reviews relevant to the theoretical engagement with and practical undertaking of fieldwork in religion. Submissions are welcome from any disciplinary perspective, theoretical paradigm or methodological approach. Although the journal specialises in contemporary matters, historical treatments with direct relevance to modern-day fieldwork in religion will be considered for publication.
Resources of Interest: Journal of Cognitive Historiography
This new journal—for which one of NAASR’s founders serves as a senior editor—might be of interest to NAASR members. From the publisher’s website:
The Journal of Cognitive Historiography is the first peer-reviewed publication for research concerned with the interactions between history, historiography, and/or archaeology and cognitive theories.
The journal provides a forum for scholars from a range of different disciplines, and draws on diverse approaches to examine how cognitive theorizing may support historical research, and vice versa. Examples of areas of research include the relationship between universalizing theories and specific historical events, the mental worlds and functions of historical agents, and the transmission of ideas and/or practices across time and place.
The editors welcome contributions from all periods and on all topics of historical and archaeological study, as well as those raising diverse methodological or theoretical issues. On the cognitive side, these may include, but are not limited to, those found in the disciplines of cognitive psychology, cognitive anthropology, cognitive sociology and neuroscience, as well as evolutionary theorizing.
You can find out more at the publisher’s website here.
NAASR Note: Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion
Along with Pascal Boyer and Armin W. Geertz, NAASR co-founder Luther H. Martin is one of the editors of a new journal, the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion.
Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion is the official journal of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (IACSR). The Association was founded in 2006 and since then has sponsored a number of international collaborative projects and biennial conferences. A subscription to the journal is included in membership.
The cognitive science of religion is a burgeoning field that finds itself in the center of cross-disciplinary research. Cognition is understood in a variety of ways from bottom-up to top-down models and theories. New insights into cognition, culture and religion are being discovered, new ways of doing research are being established and new methodologies and technologies are being used in the cognitive science of religion. The number of scholars and scientists working in this exciting field are expanding exponentially, and the journal provides a cutting-edge publication channel for this field.
You can find more information at the publisher’s website here.
Resources of Interest: New Books in Religion
For those of you who aren’t already familiar with this resource, be sure to check out New Books in Religion. According to their description,
New Books in Religion features discussions with scholars of religion about their work, and particularly their new books. We explore the world’s great traditions, local manifestations of religion, theory and method in the study of religion, and the role of religion in public life, among many other things.
The typically hour-long podcast Interviews are ably conducted by Kristian Petersen, and you’ll find a lot of interviews with NAASR members and officers, including Steven Engler, Brent Nongbri, Robert Yelle, Russell McCutcheon, William Arnal, Aaron Hughes, Monica Miller, and several more.
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