SOAS is delighted to announce two new full-time posts to
work on the inter-disciplinary project 'Sounding Islam in China' which is
hosted by the Department of Music at SOAS, University of London, and will run
from Sept 2014-Sept 2017.
The project aims to provide new, ethnographically grounded
research into the changing nature of Islamic belief and practice in
contemporary China. The approach indicates a fieldwork-based approach to
sound, experience and meaning, seeking to move beyond the habitual academic focus
on text-based and visual narratives. The project will focus on sounded
religious practices, including the call to prayer, Qur’anic recitation,
prayers, sermons, life-cycle and calendrical rituals, and other forms of
religious expressive culture, encompassing ‘live’ practices and the mediated
transmission of religious sounds and ideologies.
For further information please follow the links below, or go to
the SOAS website and check the scholarships and job vacancies sections, and
email Rachel Harris (rh@soas.ac.uk).
Leverhulme
- Research Studentship in the Department of Music - deadline 15
May 2014
Post-doctoral Research
Position on the Leverhulme-funded Research Project: Sounding Islam in China -
deadline 30 April 2014
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