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18/10/09
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Elisabeth
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The Center
for Religious Studies (CERES) at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Ger-
many, announces
6
Doctoral Scholarships
in the field of Religion and Migration
for a period of three years from January 1st, 2010. After successful completion
of the
PhD an additional post-doc option can be granted for 18 months to publish the
re-
sults and prepare research proposals.
The scholarships are part of an interdisciplinary research group on the social
and
economic potentials of religious communities, which is supported by the Land
of
North Rhine-Westphalia in northwestern Germany. Under supervision of Jun.-Prof.
Dr. Alexander-Kenneth Nagel the doctoral candidates are to conduct research on
religious migrant networks and their integrative potentials in ethnically and
culturally
diverse regions, such as the Ruhrgebiet. The focal point of our research
group is a
network analytical perspective on tangible and non-tangible resources provided
by
religious communities either on their own or in conjunction with other
religious (e.g.
interfaith coalitions) or non-religious organizations (e.g. public-private
partnerships).
Applicants
are required to have an advanced university degree (master level) in Reli-
gious or Cultural Studies or Social Sciences as well as the capability and
readiness
to pursue empirical fieldwork and to become actively involved in
interdisciplinary ex-
change and collaboration. Engagement with the study of migration, anthropology
at
home or local religious history would be desirable. Proficiency in network
analysis is
useful, but not required, since skills will be developed in the initial phase
of the re-
search group.
The Ruhr-Universität aims at increasing the share of women in research and
teach-
ing and encourages female scientists to apply. Applications with the usual
documents
(CV, degree certificates, publication list, letter of motivation) and a short
proposal of
the dissertation topic (3-4 pages) should be sent to Jun.-Prof. Dr.
Alexander-
Kenneth Nagel, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Center for Religious Studies (CE-
RES), Universitätsstraße 150, D-44780 Bochum or to alexander-
kenneth.nagel@rub.de until the 15th of November 2009.
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