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Upcoming Event – Nonconformity and Revolutions:
When: June 21, 2025 in Bath, Somerset, England 2025 marks the 250th anniversaries which commemorate the American Revolution. Not only a period of geopolitical upheaval, it saw a transformation in the theologies and networks that had shaped eighteenth-century Dissent throughout the British Atlantic world. Notions of liberty and toleration were again brought into relief; events which were…
Read MoreCFP: British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century Working Group
When: June 21, 2025 in Bath Submit abstract and brief bio by: March 31, 2025 2025 marks the 250th anniversaries which commemorate the American Revolution. Not only a period of geopolitical upheaval, it saw a transformation in the theologies and networks that had shaped eighteenth-century Dissent throughout the British Atlantic world. Notions of liberty and…
Read MoreTenure-Track Position: Assistant Professor in African-American / African Religions – Claremont McKenna College
Applications due by November 15 Follow this link to the posting at the Claremont McKenna College Website The Department of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) invites applications for a tenure-track position at the early assistant professor level in African-American/African Religions. The position will begin on July 1, 2025. The successful candidate is expected…
Read MoreTenure Track Position: Assistant Professor in Catholic Studies – University of St. Thomas
Applications due October 1, 2024 Follow this link to the posting on the University of St. Thomas website. The Department of Catholic Studies of the University of St. Thomas invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor to begin September 1, 2025. The Department offers an undergraduate major and minor as…
Read MoreVirtual Conference – Evangelicalism and Missions:
Studies in the History of the Spread of the Gospel 2-4 October 2024 A virtual conference hosted by the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, Evangelical Studies Program ASCH members are invited to attend this free online conference, which brings together scholars of different times and places in order to build up a fuller picture…
Read MoreCFP – New Directions for Church History: Methods and Sources
An online conference hosted by the Ecclesiastical History Society and the American Society ofChurch History.Date: 7 March 2025Location: Online onlyAbstract deadline: 15 November 2024 Emails: hilary.carey@bristol.ac.uk OR aude.de-mezerac@univ-lille.fr The EHS and ASCH have pleasure in inviting proposals for the second online postgraduate conference on the theme: ‘New Directions for Church History’. This international collaboration aims…
Read MoreTenure Track Position in Modern European Christianity – Princeton Theological Seminary
Application due September 7, 2024 Princeton Theological Seminary invites applications for a tenure-track position in modern European Christianity. Specialization and geographic focus are open. The successful candidate’s teaching and research will relate theological and ecclesiastical currents to broader contexts: for example, to histories of capitalism, colonialism, science, world wars, secularization, migration, religious pluralism, among others.…
Read MoreCall For Contributions: The Radical Religious Press in Western Europe and North America, 1780-1914
Abstracts due by August 1, 2024 Original contributions are being sought for an edited collection on the Radical Religious Press in Western Europe and North America, to be published by the University of Edinburgh Press as part of a three-volume series on the Radical Press, 1780-1914. For the purposes of this volume, “radical” is broadly defined…
Read MoreBowling Green State – Archives Travel Grant
Deadline: May 31, 2024 More info The Center for Archival Collections (CAC), one of the Special Collections units in the University Libraries at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), offers annually up to three competitive Research Travel Grants to support researchers who plan to spend at least five full working days using collections held by the…
Read MoreCFP: Isaac Watts at 350
Date: August 3, 2024 Location: Old Divinity School, St John’s College – Cambridge, UK 2024 represents 350 years since Isaac Watts, the dissenting minister, hymnist, and logician, was born. During his lifetime and beyond, Watts garnered a reputation as one of the leading nonconformist voices in the British Atlantic world. Through his hymns, sermons, theological…
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