Center for Religious Studies Doctoral Scholarships

The Center for Religious Studies (CERES) at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, 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 Religious or Cultural Studies or Social Sciences as well as the capability and readiness to pursue empirical fieldwork and to become actively involved in interdisciplinary exchange 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 (CERES), Universitätsstraße 150, D-44780 Bochum or to alexander-kenneth.nagel@rub.de until 15th November 2009.

CERES website:
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/relwiss/Ceres/en/index.html