• BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group Annual Conference 2026: Healing and Harms

    Mon­i­ca Par­tridge build­ing, Uni­ver­si­ty of Not­ting­ham NG7 2RD, Not­ting­ham, Unit­ed King­dom

    Based on Pro­fes­sor Anna Halafoff’s work, this annu­al con­fer­ence will explore the ris­ing sig­nif­i­cance of spir­i­tu­al­i­ty in Aus­tralia, as well as spir­i­tu­al harm and spir­i­tu­al abuse in trau­ma-informed, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary ways, gen­er­at­ing solu­tions for address­ing and pre­vent­ing spir­i­tu­al harms and abus­es. Addi­tion­al­ly, Dr Rah­ma­nara Chowd­hury will join as a keynote speak­er, explor­ing ‘Abuse in Mus­lim Con­texts — […]

  • Summer School – Religion:extrem

    Uni­ver­sität Zürich

    Die Jubiläums-Sum­mer School des RWS UZH «Religion:extrem» lädt vom 29.6.–5.7.2026 Studierende, Dok­to­ri­erende, Forschende und Praktiker:innen dazu ein, das Feld des religiösen Extrem­is­mus, aber auch ‹extreme› Reli­giosität und ‹extreme› Hal­tun­gen gegenüber Reli­giosität aus ein­er reli­gion­swis­senschaftlich fundierten und inter­diszi­plinär informierten Per­spek­tive zu ver­ste­hen. In ein­er Mis­chung aus Input-Ses­sions, inter­ak­tiv­en Grup­pendiskus­sio­nen, Fall­coach­ings und prax­is­na­hen Exkur­sio­nen erkun­den wir, wann […]

  • 10th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion

    Masaryk Uni­ver­si­ty in Brno, Czech Repub­lic

    We are delight­ed to announce that the 10th Bien­ni­al Meet­ing of the Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion for the Cog­ni­tive and Evo­lu­tion­ary Sci­ences of Reli­gion (IACESR) will be held at Masaryk Uni­ver­si­ty in Brno, Czech Repub­lic, from July 1st-3rd 2026. This event has been grant­ed Spe­cial IAHR Con­fer­ence sta­tus by the Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion for the His­to­ry of Reli­gions, recog­nis­ing […]

  • Conference: Buddhist and Christian Perspectives on the Mind

    St. Ans­garhaus Ham­burg Schmilin­skys­traße 78, Ham­burg, Ham­burg, Ger­many

    The top­ic of this con­fer­ence is a sequel to 2024’s “Bud­dhist Chris­t­ian Dia­logues on the Body.” The 2026 con­fer­ence will present dif­fer­ent aspects of the mind from Bud­dhist and Chris­t­ian per­spec­tives. Tra­di­tion­al con­cep­tions of the mind, its pos­si­ble trans­for­ma­tion, its rela­tion to ulti­mate real­i­ty and its role in con­cep­tions of life after death will be […]

  • Religion and the Far Right

    Psy­cho­log­i­cal Insti­tute of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tübin­gen Schle­ich­str. 4, Tübin­gen, Ger­many

    Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence — Reg­is­tra­tion is open until July 20, 2026.

  • Summer School for Cultural and Social Studies (ESSCSS)

    Max-Weber-Kol­leg Max-Weber-Allee 3, Erfurt, Deutsch­land

    Reli­gion and Soci­ety: Com­mu­ni­ties, Pow­er Rela­tions, and Mate­ri­alites The Sum­mer School is aimed at ear­ly-career researchers in the his­tor­i­cal sci­ences, reli­gious stud­ies, and relat­ed dis­ci­plines (such as cul­tur­al anthro­pol­o­gy or lit­er­ary stud­ies). With­in the frame­work of the Sum­mer School, ques­tions of the dis­tri­b­u­tion of pow­er in past soci­eties will be brought into focus, among them […]

  • IAHR Workshop: Study of Religion Without an Object? Global Perspectives

    Tar­tu , Esto­nia

    The event is orga­nized by the Eston­ian Soci­ety for the Study of Reli­gions in coop­er­a­tion with the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tar­tu and is an offi­cial Sum­mer School of the Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion for the His­to­ry of Reli­gions (IAHR), with par­tial fund­ing from the IAHR. This work­shop aims to bring togeth­er both the­o­ret­i­cal reflec­tions as well as spe­cif­ic […]

  • Eating and drinking with gods: a comparative workshop

    Gronin­gen , Nether­lands

    Nar­ra­tives and prac­tices of offer­ing hos­pi­tal­i­ty to the divine have a place in numer­ous reli­gions past and present. Across geo­gra­phies and periods,gods and oth­er invis­i­ble beings are offered human food and drink in human settings.Buddhism, Hin­duism, Judaism and Chris­tian­i­ty today, and Grae­co-Roman, Hit­tite and Egypt­ian reli­gions in antiq­ui­ty, are just some of the reli­gions that […]

  • First International Congress of Studies on Popular Cultures in Greece and Rome, from II millennium BCE to modern folklore

    Uni­ver­sità di Roma Tre via Ostiense 236, Roma, Italy

     Although Greek and Roman lit­er­a­ture rarely focus­es explic­it­ly on pop­u­lar cul­ture, a sub­stan­tial body of evi­dence allows us to recon­struct what may be described as the folk­lore of the ancient world. From pre­cious tes­ti­monies emerge beliefs and ‘super­sti­tions’, folk­tales and proverbs, imag­i­nary beings, songs and oth­er types of musi­cal forms, folk-phar­ma­copoeia and med­i­c­i­nal reme­dies, apotropa­ic ges­tures and […]

  • 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) | Regional Conference of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR)

    Insti­tute for the His­to­ry of Reli­gions, Bucharest Calea 13 Sep­tem­brie nr. 13, Bucharest, Roma­nia

    The Bucharest 2026 Con­gress will be the 22nd Con­fer­ence of EASR and the 2026 Region­al Con­fer­ence of IAHR. Under these most promi­nent aus­pices world­wide, we invite schol­ars from across the world to reflect upon and con­tribute towards the broad pur­pose, past and per­spec­tives of the aca­d­e­m­ic study of reli­gions with­in the human­i­ties as well as […]

  • 11th International Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies

    Istan­bul Medeniyet Uni­ver­si­ty

    Call for papers for the 11th Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence of the Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Manichaean Stud­ies, Istan­bul Medeniyet Uni­ver­si­ty, 21–25 Sep­tem­ber 2026 (details at: https://www.manichaeism.de/)   The idea of form­ing the Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Manichaean Stud­ies (IAMS) was advanced at the First Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence of Manichaean Stud­ies held in Lund in 1987. The suc­cess of the […]

  • Tag der offenen Tür — Religionswissenschaftliches Seminar Universität Zürich

    Reli­gion­swis­senschaftlich­es Sem­i­nar, Uni­ver­sität Zürich Kan­ton­ss­chul­strasse 1, Zürich

    Anlässlich unseres 20-jähri­gen Jubiläums lädt das Reli­gion­swis­senschaftliche Sem­i­nar alle Inter­essierten her­zlich zu einem Tag der offe­nen Tür ein. Dabei erhal­ten Sie einen Ein­blick in unsere Stu­di­engänge und in die vielfälti­gen Forschungsak­tiv­itäten des Sem­i­nars. Datum: 24.09.2026 Ort: Reli­gion­swis­senschaftlich­es Sem­i­nar, Kan­ton­ss­chul­strasse 1, 8001 Zürich Pro­gramm 10:00–10:30 — Führung am Höl­len­tor (Prof. Dr. David Atwood, Tre­ff­punkt Höl­len­tür) 10:45–11:15 — Blitzkurs Per­sisch (Dr. […]