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CFP: Graduate Student Conference on Democracy and Religion

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Lauren Turek I would like to share the following call for papers that I received. This conference looks fantastic and would be an excellent opportunity for graduate students of all levels. Call For Papers: Graduate Student Conference on Democracy and Religion University of Virginia, April 12, 2019 The UVA Department of Religious Studies’ Forum on Democracy and Religion invites paper proposals for a graduate student conference to be held on April 12, 2019 . Graduate students at any level and in any disciplinary field are welcome to apply. Our focus will be on the relationship between democracy and religion. We are particularly interested in such issues as: the current contest between free exercise and human dignity; the shifting sites of the “public square,” including its market dimensions; the relationship between neoliberalism and international religious freedom; how discussions of religious minorities, race, and gender shape what we mean by religion and democracy; and whether democra...
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Funding Opportunities from the Cushwa Center

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Maggie Elmore The Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism is pleased to announce the annual deadline to apply for travel grants from the Cushwa Center. The Center offers five different grants for projects related to the study of American and global Catholicism: The  Theodore M. Hesburgh Research Travel Grant  (to use the Hesburgh Papers at the University of Notre Dame) The  Research Travel Grant  (to use the Notre Dame University Archives or other collections at the Hesburgh Libraries ) The Peter R. D'Agostino Research Travel Grant (to use Roman archives for a US Catholic-focused project)  The Mother Theodore Guerin Research Travel Grant (to conduct research on Catholic women at any research repository inside or outside of the US, or to conduct oral interviews, especially of women religious)  The Hibernian Research Award (for projects related to Irish experiences in Ireland and the United States) The deadline for applying for each of these g...
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Religious Internationalism at the Conference on Faith and History

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Lauren Turek To follow on Andrea L. Turpin's helpful recent post about Women & Gender presentations at the upcoming Conference on Faith and History , I would like to highlight presentations that will have some bearing on religion and international relations, broadly conceived. This includes panels or papers that touch on U.S. foreign policy, diplomacy, religious internationalism, foreign missionary work, war and society, and the like. The Conference on Faith and History will hold its 31st biennial meeting on October 4-6, 2018 in Grand Rapids, MI. The theme of the conference is “History and the Search for Meaning,” and the full conference schedule is available here . Panels and papers of particular interest to scholars of religion and internationalism include the following: Thursday, October 4 Session 2: War, the Environment and the Fallout of Violence Chair : William Katerberg, Calvin College Papers : “Environmental Impact of the Civil War in Syria," Kincaid Wurl, Southern...
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Women & Gender at the Conference on Faith and History

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Andrea L. Turpin I'm getting excited for the biennial Conference on Faith and History held this year at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI October 4-6. My anticipation is not only linked to the hope that this Texan will get to experience some Fall. It is also linked to the large number of promising papers on the program . This year marks the conference's 50th anniversary and I look forward to hearing reflections on where the field has been and where it is going. Even more so, I look forward to seeing first hand where it is going. One of the things that is so promising about the papers is how much the conference has diversified since I first began attending exactly ten years ago. Every single time slot of panel presentations contains at least one paper on women's or gender history and a couple contain entire competing panels. Notably, the presidential plenary by my Baylor colleague Beth Allison Barr will incorporate women's history. Equally encouraging is the range of t...
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Call for Participants: 2018 NAASR Job Market Workshop

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Alongside the AAR/SBL this year in Boston, NAASR will host its annual job market workshop from 1-3pm on Sunday, November 18. This is a great opportunity for early career scholars to receive feedback on their application materials from senior scholars with experience navigating the job market. Folks from any research area and specialty are welcome: if you're planning to apply for positions in Religious Studies, you'll fit right in. While most participants are ABDs, anyone on (or interested in) the market is welcome. This year we've split the workshop into two sessions: a workshop (for small group feedback on application materials) and a general Q&A. You are welcome to attend either session for as long as your schedule allows. For more information, please click here. . If you're interested in registering for this no-cost workshop, please e-mail me (grazmike [at] gmail [dot] com) by October 1. ** NAASR Job Market Workshop CFP This session proposes to explore the employ...
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7 Questions with Lilian Calles Barger: The World Come of Age

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I corresponded recently with Lilian Calles Barger about her new book, The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press). Lilian is a historian, author, women and gender consultant. She is currently a podcast co-host for New Books Network covering women and gender, religion, intellectual history and American Studies . Her research interests include the historical development of social, religious and feminist thought in modern America with a particular expertise in women and gender history. Visit her website ( www.lilianbarger.com) or follow her on twitter ( @lilianbarger ) Tell us about how you became interested in liberation theology I have been thinking about the history of theology in general for a long time. Women’s history and feminist theory was something I was interested in and reading in the 1990s. I found feminist theologians referring to Black and Latin American liberation theology and curious to find out more about that connection...
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Finds from the Far East Broadcasting Company Digital Archives: Missionary Radio and the Cuban Missile Crisis

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Map showing potential ranges of Soviet MRBM and IRMB missiles from Cuba. Source: JFK Library For thirteen days in October 1962, the world stood on the precipice of disaster as the United States and the Soviet Union faced off over the placement of Soviet missiles on the island of Cuba. The construction of nuclear missile sites just 90-miles off of the coast of the United States posed an existential national security threat and brought the Cold War superpowers to the brink of nuclear war. After days of tense discussions with his advisors about how to handle the unfolding crisis, President John F. Kennedy announced to the world that he would impose a naval “quarantine” to keep Soviet ships from delivering weapons to Cuba and demanded that Soviet Premier Khrushchev remove the missile sites from the island. The October 22 speech was broadcast to televisions and radios across the United States, but it also reached radios in Cuba—thanks in part to missionary radio station networks such as the...
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