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<span style="text-transform: none;">Inform is looking to pay some scholars as Research Assistants to add entries to the Database of Religious History. We recently received a large John Templeton Foundation grant and some money available to pay for this work
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We are looking for people who could make entries on contemporary dharmic movements - including contemporary yoga groups and movements. The concept of 'new religiosity' is meant to focus on transformations involving new media and dynamic movement of people globally
since the 1970s. This could be centred around a person's network or a centre in a particular city/region. For example it would be great to get some entries on things like - </div>
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Sivananda Yoga (in Germany, USA or France for example could all be different entries)</div>
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Bihar/Satyananda Yoga (again in particular countries) </div>
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Pattabhi Joiss Ashtanga Yoga</div>
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Bikram Choudary</div>
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T.K.V. Desikachars yoga tradition</div>
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B.K.S. Iyengars yoga tradition (could be country specific)</div>
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Yogi Bhajan and 3HO/Kundalini Yoga</div>
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living Foundation</div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev</span><span style="font-size: 16px;">s Isha Orgasniation</span></div>
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Shiva Rea </div>
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Yoga Alliance (USA)</div>
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We'd like most of the entries to have a close geographical focus in a given legal context/nation state. But there is also room for some transnational entries. Were also interested in more Bhakti/devotional groups. </div>
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We estimate that for a group you know reasonably very well, to give 16 hours per entry - kind of 6 hours to gather new resources and 12 hours to do the data input on the poll. But if there's a collection of similar groups and you get used to the poll, this
time might decrease as you can mostly repeat the responses but change small details for the nuances of that particular group. You can see the poll here:
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https://religiondatabase.org/landing/polls/57</a></div>
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For a scholar, research assistant, we're generally paying 350 per entry. I would like to offer contracts in clusters of say, 2-4 groups - ideally in like a time frame of 6-8 weeks. But this can be negotiated. This generally suits someone who's finished a
MA or PhD and is in precarious employment... we need to get these done by the end of this year if possible. </div>
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We're working with Stephen Christopher on this project - he's advertising for individual entries on a bunch of list servs at the moment - but he's using a bit of a different model for commissioning entries than Inform; we are working together and separately
at the same time. But he's commissioning member citizen scientists for Canadian Dollars 350. So if there's a member (not-academic) with a kind of academic mind, they could get in touch with Stephen.Christopher@kcl.ac.uk in the first instance - </div>
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Do you know anyone who might be interested in helping with this? </div>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Feel free to pass on my contact details - Suzanne Newcombe the director of Inform - Suzanne.Newcombe@kcl.ac.uk </span></div>
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Thanks for forwarding this to anyone you think might be interested in doing an entry (or a few)! </div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(5, 5, 69);"><b>Suzanne Newcombe, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies</b></span><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(5, 5, 69);"><b><br>
</b></span><span style="font-family: Poppins; color: rgb(5, 5, 69);"><b>Honorary Director of
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(5, 5, 69);">New publication:</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(5, 5, 69);">The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA</span></p>
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