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Deadline Extended!

Deadline Extended!

2020-07-26
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Due to many requests, the submission deadline has been extended to July 30, 2020. Don’t miss the opportunity to participate in this festival. We are eagerly waiting for your videos. Please read the speech topics and follow the guidelines HERE...
Summer School 2020: Justice and Mercy

Summer School 2020: Justice and Mercy

2020-07-24
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Discussing the Divine Attributes in Muslim-Christian Dialogue Date: August 10-14, 2020 Venue: Online Organized by: The University of Paderborn, Germany; and part of the project “Building bridges between traditional thought and analytical phi...
3rd ANU Religion Conference (POSTPONED TO 2021)

3rd ANU Religion Conference (POSTPONED TO 2021)

2020-07-23
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Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy Date: December 8-10, 2021 Venue: Sir Roland Wilson Building, Australian National University Forms of human movement including global immigration, asylum-seeking, climate migration, and the internal migrat...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Religion and Extremism

Postdoctoral Researcher in Religion and Extremism

2020-07-21
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Call for Applications University of Groningen, Netherlands Application Deadline: September 15, 2020 This is a primarily research-driven position, with some teaching responsibilities. The successful candidate is expected to develop new ideas in res...
Fully Funded European Research Council (ERC) Collaborative PhD Studentship 'The European Qu'ran'

Fully Funded European Research Council (ERC) Collaborative PhD Studentship 'The European Qu'ran'

2020-07-20
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In collaboration with the University of Copenhagen and the British Library, London Application Deadline: September 15, 2020 The University of Copenhagen and the British Library in London are delighted to invite applications for a 3-year full-time C...
The Path less Taken: Muslims within the Extreme Right Groups in Europe

The Path less Taken: Muslims within the Extreme Right Groups in Europe

2020-07-19
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While much of the far-right targets Islam as a foreign and undesirable religion, Muslims and ex-Muslims are “increasingly prominent” in the West European far right groups, bringing a new spirituality to this often secular movement, writes...
Life on the Breadline Conference [Online]: Faith-Based Activism in Austerity Britain

Life on the Breadline Conference [Online]: Faith-Based Activism in Austerity Britain

2020-07-18
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by Coventry University Date: September 11, 2020 Venue: Online Registration is now open for the Life on the Breadline Conference: Faith-Based Activism in Austerity Britain – an online half day academic conference exploring faith-based respons...
Muslim Studies Program 14th Annual Conference

Muslim Studies Program 14th Annual Conference

2020-07-17
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“Global Islamophobia and the News Media, Entertainment Media, and Social Media” Date: April 8-9, 2021 Venue: Michigan State University, International Center, East Lansing, MI, USA Application Deadline: September 30, 2020 Michigan Stat...
Faith, hope and creative destruction: religious responses to COVID-19

Faith, hope and creative destruction: religious responses to COVID-19

2020-07-16
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In France, a hip female rabbi has improbably developed a large interfaith online audience to her Facebook videos, in which she morally engages issues related to the pandemic. In India, a Catholic priest draws on his skills as a former chef to mix co...
3rd International Congress of PLURIEL: "Islam and Otherness"

3rd International Congress of PLURIEL: "Islam and Otherness"

2020-07-11
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Date: April 13-16, 2021 Venue: Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon The “Islam and Otherness” Congress proposes to reflect on the way in which Islam fits into this societal movement beyond identity resistance. It will thus be a que...
Call for Chapters: "The lived Religious Lives of Women in 21st Century Britain"

Call for Chapters: "The lived Religious Lives of Women in 21st Century Britain"

2020-07-10
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Call for Book Chapters Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2020 Dr Rachael Shillitoe is putting out a call for papers for a book on the lived religious lives of women in 21st century Britain. The term lived religion is being described as the ways in w...
Online clothing shop Shein has apologized for selling Muslim prayer mats on its site

Online clothing shop Shein has apologized for selling Muslim prayer mats on its site

2020-07-10
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The mats sold were labelled as "frilled Greek carpets" and had pictures of the Kabaa on them. The Kabaa is a building in the center of Mecca, considered the most sacred place by Muslims around the world. Shein was also accused of cultural appropriat...
HIWAR (Madrid)

HIWAR (Madrid)

2020-07-09
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Project HIWAR was conceived on the grounds of a group of researchers from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas that had the committed dedication to converse, get closer to and build bridges with Islam. Making the most of the experience of inter-religi...
The MIDÉO

The MIDÉO

2020-07-09
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Editors: Emmanuel Pisani, Mathieu Gousse Publisher: IDEO - Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies The MIDÉO -  Mixtures of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies in Cairo - is a journal founded in 1954 by the first members of th...
Faith leaders call to keep EU's religious freedom envoy

Faith leaders call to keep EU's religious freedom envoy

2020-07-09
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Christian, Jewish and Muslim representatives have criticized the European Union's decision to drop its special envoy for religious freedom. A leading Jewish figure called it "the wrong signal for Europe." Leading figures from Europe's Christian, Jew...
University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL)

University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL)

2020-07-08
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PLURIEL is the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon. It was launched by the Federation of the Catholic Universities in Europe and Lebanon (FUCE) in 2014 and is now supported by the International Federation of Catholic Unive...
Publication of the Book Islam and Belonging

Publication of the Book Islam and Belonging

2020-07-08
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Islam and Belonging Proceedings of the 2nd PLURIEL Congress Editors: Michel Younès, Anna Hager, Laurent Basanèse, and Diego Sarrió Cucarella Publisher: L'Harmattan Publication Date: 2020 Language: French The PISAI is please...
Dearborn mosque: Woodmere Cemetery shutting out Muslims from graves they already purchased

Dearborn mosque: Woodmere Cemetery shutting out Muslims from graves they already purchased

2020-07-07
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More than two dozen religious, political and community leaders gathered Friday morning, before noon prayer at the American Moslem Society mosque in Dearborn, to call attention to a legal fight with nearby Woodmere Cemetery.  At issue, the mosque...
Religions for Peace

Religions for Peace

2020-07-03
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The World Council serves as the global leadership body of Religions for Peace, facilitating multi-level multi-religious action that includes the empowerment and equipping-for-action of national and regional Inter-religious Councils (IRCs), Interfaith...
Tenure Track Full Professor Islamic Origins

Tenure Track Full Professor Islamic Origins

2020-07-03
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Call for Applications University of Groningen, Netherlands Application Deadline: August 31, 2020 The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies seeks to appoint a Tenure Track Full Professor of Islamic Origins. The successful candidate will be appo...
Research Fellow: Religion for Peace

Research Fellow: Religion for Peace

2020-07-03
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Call for Applications The German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, Germany Starting Date: November 1, 2020 The German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) / Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien is an...
“Rethinking Islamism beyond jihadi violence: Fighting ideas leaving the sword aside”

“Rethinking Islamism beyond jihadi violence: Fighting ideas leaving the sword aside”

2020-07-02
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Call for Book Chapters Deadline: August 30, 2020 For several years Islamism has been associated with jihadism and violent extremism both in academia and in contemporary political debates. However, this association can be misleading: Islamism has mu...
Professorship for “Islamic Studies: Arabic” (successor to Prof. Dr. Susanne Enderwitz)

Professorship for “Islamic Studies: Arabic” (successor to Prof. Dr. Susanne Enderwitz)

2020-07-01
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Call for Applications University of Heidelberg, Germany Application Deadline: July 31, 2020 In the Department of Islamic Studies at the Seminar for Languages and Cultures of the Middle East at the University of Heidelberg, there is one as soon as ...
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