Job Information
- Organisation/Company
- Lund University
- Department
- Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
- Research Field
- Religious sciences » TheologyReligious sciences » Comparative religionEthics in social sciences » Other
- Researcher Profile
- Recognised Researcher (R2)
- Country
- Sweden
- Application Deadline
- Type of Contract
- Temporary
- Job Status
- Full-time
- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
- HE / ERC
- Reference Number
- 101116763
- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
- No
Offer Description
The postdoctoral position is connected to the project “Faith-Based Refugee Relief in Europe: Connecting the Empirical and the Ethical (FABRIC)”, funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant. FABRIC aims to understand and utilize the moral insights and the moral ideas that faith-based refugee relief organizations develop in practice for the cross-disciplinary debate about the ethics of forced migration in Europe. Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have been at the forefront of the challenge of forced migration, preventing the collapse of infrastructures of care, combatting racist discourse and religious discrimination. Yet there is very little knowledge about the refugee relief of these FBOs so their significance for the ethics of migration has been neither analyzed nor assessed.
FABRIC addresses this lack by conducting a comprehensive and comparative empirical exploration of FBOs, covering activities by FBOs from all three Abrahamic faiths in mono- and multi-religious settings across Europe. Countering the lack of interaction between empirical and evaluative approaches so characteristic of the study of forced migration, this exploration enquires into the conditions, constraints, and consequences of practicing justice. It offers a concrete account of faith-based refugee relief in order to formulate a concept of mobility justice that considers cross-connections between social, racial, and climate justice on regional, national, and global scales.
Candidates are expected to apply to the postdoctoral position with a research proposal that contributes to the overall project. Proposals can approach faith-based refugee relief from a variety of angles. Proposals that draw on public and political theology to connect empirical and ethical perspectives on multi-faith-based refugee relief in Europe are particularly welcome.
The postdoctoral position is placed at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) within the subject of Global Christianity.
Requirements
- Research Field
- Religious sciences » Theology
- Education Level
- PhD or equivalent
- Research Field
- Religious sciences » Comparative religion
- Education Level
- PhD or equivalent
- Research Field
- Ethics in social sciences
- Education Level
- PhD or equivalent
- Languages
- ENGLISH
Additional Information
Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University
- Country
- Sweden
- City
- Lund
- Geofield
Where to apply
- Website
Contact
- City
- Lund
- Website
- Street
- Helgonavägen 3
- Postal Code
- 22362
- hege_irene.markussen@ctr.lu.seulrich.schmiedel@ctr.lu.se