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Flemish BrabantHybrid30 hours/week<3months
This project investigates how interreligious dialogue became a global response to religious diversity, conflict, and social cohesion, and which assumptions continue to shape it.
- The research critically analyzes the historical development, discursive shaping, and local implementation of interreligious dialogue.
- The role involves leading a research package on the global genealogies and discourses of interreligious dialogue.
- It contributes to the comparative and theoretical development of a larger interdisciplinary research project.
What you do
- You will conduct independent research into the genealogies and global discourses of interreligious dialogue.
- You will build an international corpus of policy documents, ecclesiastical texts, and statements from international religious organizations and analyze it using Discourse-Historical Analysis and qualitative analytical methods, including NVivo.
- You will develop your own research agenda within the project's objectives and publish the results in international peer-reviewed journals.
- You will assume academic leadership of the work package on the discursive analysis of global interreligious dialogue and coordinate its planning and progress in consultation with the project leaders.
- You will actively contribute to the theoretical and conceptual development of the project and, together with the Principal Investigator, lead the comparative synthesis of the various work packages.
- You will provide substantive and methodological guidance to doctoral researchers and foster academic exchange within the research team.
- You will present research findings at international conferences and actively build an international research network.
- You will participate in the organization of research seminars, workshops, and other academic activities related to the project.
- You will be available for other forms of service within the faculty for up to 10% of your time.
Profile
- You have earned, or will have earned by the start of the project at the latest, a PhD in religious studies, social sciences, social and cultural anthropology with a focus on religion, theology, or a related discipline.
- You have a strong research profile and a demonstrable interest in interreligious dialogue, religious diversity, and/or critical approaches to religion, secularism, coloniality, and power.
- You have experience with qualitative research.
- Expertise in discourse analysis, preferably Discourse-Historical Analysis, qualitative data analysis, for example NVivo, and/or ethnographic research is a significant asset.
- You have a strong international publication record appropriate to your career stage and the ambition to continue publishing in leading international journals.
- You are capable of independently designing and conducting research, but also enjoy collaborating within an interdisciplinary and international research team.
- You possess excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
- You are willing to take an active role in supervising doctoral researchers and in expanding the project's research activities.
- You have an excellent command of English, both spoken and written.
- Knowledge of Dutch is an asset but not a requirement.
Practical
- A postdoctoral position at 0.75 FTE for a period of three years.
- Competitive compensation.
- A research budget for participation in national and international conferences, workshops, and training programs.
- The opportunity to take on a central academic role within an ambitious international research project.
- Close collaboration within an interdisciplinary research project that brings together theology, anthropology, and religious studies.
- A stimulating research environment in which intellectual exchange, academic freedom, collegiality, and scholarly excellence are central.
- The opportunity to collaborate with an interdisciplinary team and international partners, and to further expand an active international research network.
- The freedom to further develop your own research profile and contribute to an innovative research program.
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