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Diaconia and Christian Social Practice: Challenging Contexts and Emerging Trends: Call for Papers

Diaconia and Christian Social Practice: Challenging Contexts and Emerging Trends: Call for Papers

The 10th Conference for Research in Diaconia and Christian Social Practice (ReDi) on April 1 to 4, 2025 is approaching. The theme of the conference is Diaconia and Christian Social Practice: Challenging Contexts and Emerging Trends. The conference will take place at the Andrew Murray Centre for Spirituality in Wellington, South Africa. We invite contributions across a wide spectrum of formations and traditions to advance a global debate on diaconia and Christian social practice, thematically organized around twelve different tracks: Diaconia and colonialism: Entanglement and detachment. Diaconia of the…

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Climate Crisis and Pastoral Theology: Call for Papers

Climate Crisis and Pastoral Theology: Call for Papers

Call for Papers – Climate Crisis and Pastoral Theology Abstract & Working Title Due November 29, 2024 Completed Articles due April 15, 2025 The realities of the climate crisis impact all areas of life and, therefore, each and every academic discipline. Indeed, this crisis invites interdisciplinary research and discourse, which pastoral and practical theologians are well positioned to contribute. We (Ryan LaMothe, Pamela McCarroll, Christine Tind Johannessen) are inviting scholars and students to consider contributing to a special issue on…

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Job Opening: Associate Professor of Homiletics

Job Opening: Associate Professor of Homiletics

Associate Professor of Homiletics Boston University School of Theology   BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY invites applications for a full-time, tenured faculty position at the rank of Associate Professor, to begin in Fall 2025. Candidates should have a research record and agenda that engages and contributes to homiletics and the candidate’s particular area of theological specialization. They should also have experience of preaching in churches and other contexts of ministry. STH is especially interested in homileticians whose work engages spirituality,…

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Finding Resilience and Faith in Fractures Development: Call for Papers

Finding Resilience and Faith in Fractures Development: Call for Papers

IASYM Regional Conference: Prague, 23-26 April, 2025 Call for Papers FINDING RESILIENCE AND FAITH IN FRACTURED DEVELOPMENTS Whereas reflections within Youth Ministry frequently assume ‘normal/healthy development’ of young people and more or less intact places of youth ministry practices, it is actually more accurate to reflect from a perspective of ‘fragile/fractured development’ of humanity and in our focus, children and youth in particular. We might think of the fractured contexts surrounding the developmental course of children and young people themselves: through war, through social exclusion,…

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Job Opening: Tenure-track or tenured appointment in Psychology and Religion

Job Opening: Tenure-track or tenured appointment in Psychology and Religion

Union Theological Seminary seeks applicants for a tenure-track or tenured appointment in Psychology and Religion. We seek a practical theologian with expertise in psychology, culture, pastoral theology, spiritual care, and chaplaincy studies. A specialized focus and expertise in clinical training, including Clinical Pastoral Education, is key to this position. With a commitment to interreligious engagement, this position requires the teaching of spiritual care in conversation with a variety of religious traditions and worldviews. The teaching of spiritual care from other traditions, including Buddhist, Muslim, and “spiritual…

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Job Opening: Doctor of Ministry Program Director – Saskatoon Theological Union Inc. (STU)

Job Opening: Doctor of Ministry Program Director – Saskatoon Theological Union Inc. (STU)

Summary: The Doctor of Ministry (DMin) Director is an appointment of the Saskatoon Theological Union Inc. (STU). This position is open to applicants who will work either on-site or remotely. The Director leads the implementation of the STU’s cooperative Doctor of Ministry program in collaboration with the DMin Committee of the Common Faculty of the STU. Please click on this post’s title to access the document with all the details concerning this position: Doctor of Ministry Program Director position available

Muslim Chaplaincy: Practice, Research And Recognition Call For Papers, Workshops And Posters

Muslim Chaplaincy: Practice, Research And Recognition Call For Papers, Workshops And Posters

Muslim Chaplaincy: Practice, Research And Recognition Call For Papers, Workshops And Posters   The University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and Cardiff University (Wales) are organising an International Conference on Muslim Chaplaincy taking place in Fribourg, on June 24th – 26th 2025. Context The growth of Muslim involvement in chaplaincy in numerous Western countries over recent decades has been the catalyst for the emergence of a new international field of research, namely, Muslim Chaplaincy Studies. Although the demography of Muslim communities is…

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Call for Chapters: Announcing a forthcoming anthology by the Mad and Crip Theology Press, co-edited by Naomi Lawson Jacobs and Amy Panton

Call for Chapters: Announcing a forthcoming anthology by the Mad and Crip Theology Press, co-edited by Naomi Lawson Jacobs and Amy Panton

See: https://www.madandcriptheologypress.ca/general-9 Announcing a forthcoming anthology by the Mad and Crip Theology Press, co-edited by Naomi Lawson Jacobs and Amy Panton This will be a book by disabled people. The editors are looking for chapters about the ways our experiences of disability and disabled body-minds shape our theologies – how we think and talk about God. The book will aim to take lived experience seriously, as an authentic source of theology, in Christian and other faith traditions. “The world we know…

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Call for Papers: Theology ‘In Exit’ for a Better World: Consolidating the Intersecting Features of Public Theology

Call for Papers: Theology ‘In Exit’ for a Better World: Consolidating the Intersecting Features of Public Theology

For more details go to: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/O26E323969 Special Issue Editor Prof. Dr. Francis-Vincent Anthony E-Mail Website Guest Editor Faculty of Theology, Salesian Pontifical University, 000139 Rome, Italy Interests: practical and empirical theology; contextual theology; inculturation and interculturality; interreligious dialogue and conflict; religion, human rights and citizenship; religious education and pedagogy; youth studies and ministry; public theology Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, Fifty years ago, the expression ‘Public theology’ was introduced into theological debate by Martin E….

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