Author: Tor-Arne Isene

The Program and Abstracts Book is ready for download.

Participants will receive a printed edition at the conference.

The IAPR conference of 2017 seems to become a quite international conference. Today 270 participants from 29 different nationalities have registered for the conference.

There are still room for more. Please register here.

 

Program for pre-conferences are ready: Pre-conference page.

The International Association for the Psychology of Religion has two prestigious awards for the purpose of honouring scientific work in the field of psychology of religion.

The Early Career Award
The Early Career Award is intended to reward promising junior researchers in the field of the Psychology of Religion. It is awarded once every two years at the IAPR conference, for outstanding quality of research. Eligible for the Early Career Award are young scholars at the postdoctoral or early career academic level (holding a Ph.D. since 0 -5 years maximum). Excellence in the quality of research (as reflected in the publications) in the field of the Psychology of Religion is required.

The IAPR jury is very pleased to announce that despite fierce competition (with several worthy recipients among the nominees) the recipient of the 2017 early career award is Patty van Cappellen.

The IAPR Godin Prize for the Scientific Study of Religion
The Godin Prize is a scientific prize to be awarded to senior scholars (mid-life award) for their excellence in the scientific study of the psychology of religion. The Godin prize will be given every second IAPR conference, that is to say, once in every 4 years. The origin of the Godin Prize is a gift by Gregory Zilboorg to André Godin who was professor of psychology of religion at the Lumen Vitae Institute in Brussels, on March 15, 1956 in order to develop studies in the psychology of religion. The name of the prize on that moment was the Quinquennial Prize for the Scientific Psychology of Religion. After the death of André Godin in 1997, the committee decided to change the name of the prize to the Godin Prize. As a mid-life award the Godin Prize is aimed at senior scholars. Eligible candidates for the Godin Prize are midlife researchers, who conduct excellent research (as reflected in publications) in the field of the Psychology of Religion.

The IAPR jury is very pleased to announce that despite fierce competition (with several worthy recipients among the nominees) the IAPR 2017 Godin prize goes to Wade Rowatt, professor at Baylor University, Texas.

Dr.  van Cappelen and Dr. Rowatt will have a plenary lecture at the IAPR conference. See Plenary lectures for a presentation of the prize-winners.

 

 

Call for papers is extended one week, until Wednesday March 8th.

A good number of submissions are received, but the committee would like to give more attendees the opportunity to present.

The registration for the IAPR conference 2017 in Hamar, is open. Please go to the registration page.

You are welcome to submit abstracts for the conference. Contributions may take the form of poster, paper and panel.

Submission deadline: March 1st, 2017

Please go to the submission page for more information and submission form.

The scientific program for the conference is ready. Check it out here

The Godin prize honors excellence in scientific research in the field of the Psychology of Religion. Once in every four years, the scientific contribution of a distinguished senior scholar to the study of the field is awarded. For information on the history of the Godin prize visit http://www.iaprweb.org/awards.html

Criteria
As mid-life award the Godin Prize is aimed at senior scholars. Eligible candidates for the Godin Prize are midlife researchers, who conduct excellent research (as reflected in publications) in the field of the Psychology of Religion.

The Early Career Award is intended to reward promising junior researchers in the field of the Psychology of Religion. It is awarded once every two years at the IARP conference, for outstanding quality of research.

Criteria
Eligible for the Early Career Award are young scholars at the postdoctoral or early career academic level (holding a Ph.D. since 0 -5 years maximum). Excellence in the quality of research (as reflected in the publications) in the field of the Psychology of Religion is required.

Prize
Both, the Godin prize and the Early Career Award are endowed with 1000 euros. The happy winners are expected to give a keynote lecture at the annual IAPR conference in 2017 in Hamar, Norway (August 21-24).

Nomination
Suitable candidates should be nominated, however self-nominations are also possible. The application for both the Godin prize and the Early Career Award should include the candidate’s CV and the list of his/her publications and be sent to Sebastian Murken (smurken@mainz-online.de).

Members of the jury
Sebastian Murken (President, University of Marburg, Germany), Pehr Granqvist (University of Stockholm, Sweden), Kate Loewenthal (Royal Holloway, University of London, England), Adam B. Cohen (Arizona State University, USA), Vassilis Saroglou (University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

Deadline for the submission of (self-) nominations is December 15, 2016.