January 2022 Events and Opportunities

Below, find upcoming events and open calls for papers, grants, fellowships, and more. 

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Calls for Papers

  • The Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam seeks research articles that deal with some of the most pressing issues that Muslims face in the contemporary world, such as new approaches to Islamic law, new religious trends in the Muslim world (e.g. new atheism, deism, and agnosticism), Islam and politics, sectarianism in the Muslim world, Islam and social change, Islam and human rights, Islamophobia, Muslim-Christian relations, new methodological developments in Quranic studies, and hadith studies. (Ongoing opportunity)
  • Edinburgh University Press seeks book proposals for its series "Advances in the Study of Islam" which will publish cutting-edge research that reflects the long history and geographic breadth of Islam. (Ongoing opportunity)
  • Lumen et Vita seeks to engage and promote learning (in theoretical realms of theology and science and in practical realms such as the social sciences and pastoral practice), dialogue, and collaboration in exploring how these lenses might be used in conjunction to further true knowledge of humanity, creation, and, ultimately, the Divine for its 2022 spring conference entitled, “The Great Waters of the Kingdom of Matter”: Faith, Religion, Science, and Reality. (Deadline: January 20, 2022)
  • American Baptist Quarterly invites articles reflecting on secularity and the secularization thesis for Christianity in late modernity from historical, theological, moral, political, or social perspectives. (Deadline: February 1, 2022)
  • American Baptist Quarterly invites proposals for submissions exploring meaningful Bible translation efforts in the past as well as explorations of prospects and directions for versions of biblical texts to serve the church in the present and future. . (Deadline: February 15, 2022)
  • American Baptist Quarterly invites articles exploring both roots and effects of contemporary 21st century reformations. (Deadline: March 1, 2022)

Fellowships, Grants, and Further Scholarship

  • Luce-AAR Advancing Scholarship Grant Program - With funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Luce-AAR Advancing Public Scholarship Grant program offers grants to support scholars of religion who are working to engage publics in innovative ways, through projects designed for presentation in public spaces and outreach through publicly accessible sites. (Deadline: January 31, 2022)
  • AAR Student Ambassador Program - This pilot program seeks to forge deeper and more enduring ties between graduate (and potentially undergraduate) students and the AAR. Its overarching goals are to educate graduate students about the AAR, gain new student members, pipeline them into lifelong members, increase awareness of AAR benefits, and strengthen the AAR regions. Ambassadors receive a one-year AAR membership and Annual Meeting registration. (Deadline: January 31, 2022)
  • ACLS Digital Justice Grants - This program especially supports projects that engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities; people with disabilities; and queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people. (Deadline: February 15, 2022)
  • NEH Summer Institute: Mormonism and Mexico - Claremont Graduate University invites scholars and educators to examine the history of Mormonism and Mexico as a case study to explore the impact of borders and migration on religious change in the modern world. (Deadline: March 1, 2022)
  • Islamic Scholarship Fund 2022 Scholarships - Since 2009 ISF has funded American Muslim scholars studying and working in fields with the greatest impact on public opinion and policy. Our scholarships range from $3,000-$10,000. Our goal: to improve negative portrayals of Muslims in the news, increase the number of Muslim policymakers, and invest in the creation of positive and engaging stories about American Muslims. (Deadline: March 21, 2022)
  • Civitas Dei Fellowship, 2022: The City of God in Modernity: Culture and Ecclesiology - The Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship is a project sponsored by the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and by the Thomistic Institute at the Dominican House of Studies that offers competitive fellowships for graduate students (and a few talented, upper-level undergraduates), drawing from across fields in the sciences, humanities, and from law. Accepted fellowship recipients attend a one-week program in Washington, D.C. that offers courses and seminars given by distinguished scholars focusing on some aspect of Catholic thought in relation to culture and public life. (Deadline: March 31, 2022)
  • Membership in the Fellowship for Protestant Ethics - The Fellowship for Protestant Ethics is a diverse community of early-career scholars who are critically appreciative of the Protestant tradition(s) of ethical reflection and radically committed to the church's social witness. To be eligible for membership, applicants must be between qualifying examinations (having finished comprehensive/qualifying exams by the time of the meeting) and tenure, and be willing to participate in the annual symposium (when meeting together is possible). (Deadline: May 1, 2022)

Awards

  • The AAR Religion and the Arts Award is presented annually to an artist, performer, critic, curator, or scholar who has made a recent significant contribution to the understanding of the relations among the arts and religions, both for the academy and for a broader public. (Deadline: February 1, 2022)
  • The AAR Journalism Awards honor the best in-depth reporting on religion in two categories: newswriting and multimedia journalism. (Deadline: March 14, 2022)

Events

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