Rise of the Islamic University

November 15, 2018

Islamic universities are beginning to spring up in countries around the world with new institutions opening in the US, Italy and in some European countries. The aim is to provide higher education for immigrant Muslim communities and to tackle concerns about the spread of extremism...

German Evangelical Church conducts survey, ponders stance on Islam

November 15, 2018

The Social Science Institute of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) has published a new study titled “Islam and Muslims in Germany: The population’s view”. Just over 2000 respondents...

Online Study with Hartford Seminary’s Interfaith, Global Community

November 15, 2018

For years Hartford Seminary has provided quality online learning with knowledgeable faculty and an engaging, intellectual student body of...

Joining the Islamic State from France between 2014 & 2016: an observational follow-up study

Palgrave Communications, volume 4, Article number: 137

A new model of radicalization has appeared in Western countries since the 2010s. However, few empirical data are available to interpret the...

Glocal Religions

Publisher: MDPI (October 2018)

Edited by Victor Roudometof
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Glocal Religions that was published in Religions.
The globalization of the world’s religions leads to a variety of fusions whereby local elements blend with global religions, leading to hybrid local-global or glocal religious forms. Glocal forms of religion provide a hitherto insufficiently explored research agenda with the potential of further growth in the future. This volume introduces the basic tenets of this research agenda and offers examples from around the globe. In the volume’s individual chapters, authors explore a diverse tapestry of such forms that...

Call for papers: Special Issue “Reframing Islam in Southeast Asia”

Manuscript Submission Deadline: August 15, 2019

This Special Issue of the journal Religions, “Reframing Islam in Southeast Asia”, intends to challenge these narratives, problematizing both the way Muslim Southeast Asia has been...

Assistant Professor in Classical Islamic Religious Thought and Dialogue

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland | Application Deadline: Dec 3, 2018

The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. and a track record in, and current plan for, excellent research in the periods from late Antiquity to the Middle Ages in areas such as the role of...

EASR 2019: “Religion – Continuations and Disruptions”

Call for Papers | Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15, 2018

Religions are works in progress. New ideas, doctrines and practices have appeared time and again and often spread across cultural and confessional boundaries. The conference will...

IAPR 2019: Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

August 31 - September 3, 2019 | Gdańsk, Poland

The International Association for the Psychology of Religion holds bi-annual conferences that serve as a meeting point for scholars from all over the world to share the latest research findings in the field. This year, we would like to summarize the current knowledge within the...

Sociology of Religion Study Group (SocRel) Annual Conference 2019

Call for Papers | Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2019

As scholars of religion, we are all tasked with communicating religion in one way or another – to students, to the public, and to our research community. Moreover, what we study is itself...

The Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University

The Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University promotes and produces innovative research and scholarship, exemplary teaching and training, robust public...