I would have been delighted to chat with Paul Driscoll no matter what – we are both interested in Doctor Who and theology. I mean deeply interested in matters of Whovian theology. But in our conversations prior to the recording of the podcast, Paul made me aware of a series that hasn’t received anywhere near as much attention as it deserves to have in the United States, namely “The Black Archive.” This series from Obverse Books offers volumes each on a... Read more
Post-doctoral Fellowship at the University of Haifa (academic years 2019-21) The German-Israeli research project Scripta Qumranica Electronica seeks applications for a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Haifa. This is an opportunity for gaining expertise in advanced methodologies of scrolls research and digital editions, in a cooperative environment.The fellowship term is October 2019 – March 2021. Prolongation until October 2021 is possible. The annual sum of the fellowship is 22,000 Euro (payed in Shekels),and the relative part thereof for additional months. No further benefits are provided. The project “Scripta Qumranica... Read more
Another call for papers connected with the Journal for Religion, Film, and Media: CFP: SCIENCE FICTION AND RELIGION Even more than other film genres, science fiction movies confront viewers with societal problems and make experimentation with other models possible. Science fiction can thus be connected to explorations of religion, faith, and belief. Does a machine (a robot, a computer, an android, or a ship) have a soul? What about the concepts of determinism and free will, the bounds between faith,... Read more
This opportunity at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany came to my attention, and I thought I should share it. It is connected with the Leibniz project “Polyphony of Late Antique Christianity.” The Department of Ancient History, Faculty of Philosophy and History, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main invites applications for 2 doctoral positions as Researchers in Late Antique Christianity in the Eastern Mediterranean (E13 TV-G-U, 65% part-time) within the Leibniz research project “Polyphony of Late Antique Christianity” directed by Prof. Dr. Hartmut Leppin (http://www.geschichte.uni-frankfurt.de/70685547/Leibniz_project__Polyphony_of_Late_Antique_Christianity). The position... Read more
A call for papers that I should have passed on before now… 2019 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RELIGION & FILM JUNE 12-14, 2019 SAINT MARY’S UNIVERSITY, Halifax, NS Call for Papers Saint Mary’s University and The Journal of Religion and Film and are pleased to co-sponsor the 2019 International Conference on Religion & Film (ICRF) in Halifax NS. Halifax occupies a unique place in Canadian history as a point of ingress for settlers, entry for immigrants, refuge for loyalist Blacks, exile... Read more
The topic of disenchantment is directly entwined with pretty much any question that we might ask related to religion in the present day. I had been gathering links on the topic for quite some time, but was prompted to return to the topic and finish the post not only by the treatment of the subject in Robert Geraci’s recent book Temples of Modernity: Nationalism, Hinduism, and Transhumanism in South Indian Science, but also by a call for papers for a... Read more
I spotted two research opportunities related to “Everyday Cyborgs 2.0” and wanted to share those with blog readers. I’ll have multiple podcasts in the coming month or so related to the intersection of religion and technology, and of course I’m actively interested in this topic as it relates both to the present day and near future, as well as to the more speculative imagined future science fiction envisages. Here are the details: We are now recruiting two Research Fellows to... Read more
This week’s episode features Jeremiah Bailey, with whom I’ve been connected for a long time as fellow bibliobloggers, but who I recently discovered also shares something else in common with me: we’ve both written and published science fiction short stories! You can find his in the compilation Robots and Artificial Intelligence Short Stories published by Flame Tree Publishing. One of the ideas that occurred to me during the recording of the podcast was that it would be great to produce... Read more
I have shared the call for papers for the Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity program unit before, but want to do so again, adding an image in the hope that this may facilitate the sharing of this information. Please pass it on to colleagues who work on Central Asia and East Asia, with whom I may not have direct connections, but who may find the call for papers of interest! Call for Papers: The Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity program... Read more
This is an exciting call for papers! I think there’s room for a Good Place and Theology volume, too, but philosophy is obviously the place to start, given the show’s focus on moral philosophy (even though, by virtue of being set in the afterlife, theology is at the very least a close second)… Call for Abstracts The Good Place and Philosophy Edited by Kimberly S. Engels The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series Please circulate and post widely. Apologies for... Read more
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