13 Jan 2024
Job Information
- Organisation/Company
CNRS- Department
Institut de Recherches et d'Études sur les Mondes Arabes et Musulmans- Research Field
History- Researcher Profile
First Stage Researcher (R1)- Country
France- Application Deadline
31 Jan 2024 - 23:59 (UTC)- Type of Contract
Temporary- Job Status
Full-time- Hours Per Week
35- Offer Starting Date
4 Mar 2024- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
Not funded by an EU programme- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No
Offer Description
The researcher (fixed-term contract) will be recruited within the framework of the ANR PredicMO programme. His/her profile is that of a specialist in the human and social sciences of religion, preferably an anthropologist, historian and/or art historian with good knowledge of one or more of the seven countries covered by the ANR PredicMO programme (Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestine).
More specifically, he/she will work on the theme of 'the staging of preaching' and, more specifically on the data survey collection of objects and materials related to preaching in conjunction with the Mucem. This data collection survey will focus on the objects and sound, textual and visual sources produced and used by those involved in preaching in the 20th and 21st centuries. It will be carried out by team members between 2024 and 2026. It will be an opportunity for researchers to question the ways in which materiality is involved in the transmission of the religious messages and in preaching. To this end, he/she will be work closely with Norig Neveu (CNRS, IREMAM, main PI ANR PredicMO), Marie-Laure Boursin (CNRS, Ideas, PI Axis 3) and Raphaël Bories, curator, head of the "Religions and beliefs" section of the Mucem.
He/she will be in charge of organising the methodological workshop for the presentation and preparation of the data collection survey planned for autumn 2024 (Mucem, Marseille) in collaboration with the Mucem. For the entire duration of the contract, together with the coordinators of Axis 3, he/she will be in charge of monitoring the methodology of this data collection survey which will be developed on a collegial basis. The person recruited will organise the training of the research team in the ethical and legal aspects of this data collection survey. He/she will inventory and catalogue the first web, image and sound archives, as well as the first sources collected by the team members, in collaboration with the Mucem team and V. Ginouvès (MMSH media library). At the end of 2026, he/she will co-ordinate the writing workshop with Raphaël Bories to prepare the publication of the book and the catalogue resulting from the writing residency on the results of the survey and collection.
In addition to his/her personal research, to which he/she will devote half of his/her time and which will focus on one of the three axes of the ANR programme, the contract researcher will be responsible for the management of the programme's research blog, and will contribute to the organisation of the inaugural symposium in March 2023.
- Participating in and carrying out data collection survey campaigns
- Participation in the drafting of the data management plan of the data collection survey
- Preparing metadata for archiving
- Possibility of training in cataloguing, inventory and indexing of museum collections and part of the data survey collection
- Participation in publications related to the data collection survey
- Research within the ANR programme and publication of the results of the research
- Contribution to the management of the Axis 3 research team and the reporting activities related to it
- Launching and managing the programme's research blog Hypothèse)
- Organisation of the inaugural symposium of the programme
A research fellow position (CDD 12 months, renewable 12 months) is available in the frame of the PredicMO programme funded by the ANR "Grammars of preaching: lexicon, cartography, staging (Middle East, 19th-21st centuries)" coordinated by Norig Neveu member of the Institute of Research and Study on the Arab and Islamic Worlds (IREMAM) in Aix-en-Provence, France.
Founded in 1986, The Institute of Research and Study on the Arab and Islamic Worlds (IREMAM) is the successor of older centers that focused upon the southern Mediterranean coast, anchored since 1958 around a multidisciplinary research hub in Aix-en-Provence. Its creation confirmed the trend for broadening research, initially centered around North Africa, to the entire Muslim Mediterranean world, as well as the growing role of the social sciences in our understanding of contemporary societies. Its long experience and the richness of its documentary resources make it one of the largest research centers on this part of the world in France.
PredicMO (2024-2028) considers preaching as a common element of the three Abrahamic religions. Preaching has, however, been understudied in a connected perspective. This project aims to establish a common "grammar" of preaching, understood as a set of principles, rules, strategies and models, together with their variations. While Judaism refutes its universal vocation, Islam and Christianity have placed preaching at the heart of their doctrine. As the driving force of 'making people believe', preaching is understood as a device (dispositif Foucault) embodied by the presence of an individual or a group in a territory in order to constitute or consolidate a community of believers. Adopting a Weberian perspective, the PredicMO focuses on preaching, whose objective is to convince and which develops in a context of religious crisis, and not only on the cure of souls. Preaching as an internal and external constitutive device of faith experiences has been constantly reshaped since the end of the 19th century. PredicMO focuses on its contemporary reinventions and redefinitions.
In order to do so, it has chosen the Middle East as a privileged observatory, a space of elaboration and circulation, constantly connected with international dynamics. The seven territories concerned by our survey (Egypt, Syria, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq) have all experienced this large-scale phenomenon with varying temporalities, actors and dynamics. Not limiting itself by focusing on a specific country, PredicMO will analyse influences, emulations, competition in preaching discourses and spatial strategies using several case studies. The programme team will pay particular attention to the transnational trajectories of actors, financial flows, ideas, media and the circulation of model.
Supported by IREMAM, Ifpo and EFR, PredicMO gathers an international and interdisciplinary team of 25 members (history, anthropology, political science, Islamology) to cross-analyse new visual, sound and written sources, developing digital tools to make them accessible to a large public. The research program is structured around 3 axes:
Models and lexis of preaching (coord. N. Neveu)
Mapping preaching and preachers: circulation and transnational networks (coord. K. Sanchez Summerer & M. Rey)
Staging preaching (coord. M-L Boursin, R. Bories)
The three axes are articulated around the same methodological concern: that of a decompartmentalized approach to the study of the three monotheistic religions, through the intermediary of a common object: preaching, and via the objective of establishing a "grammar" of this device. PredicMO, beyond the theoretical contributions that the study of preaching makes to the study of contemporary religion, is a space for critical evaluation and methodological reflection. PredicMO, in addition to its theoretical contributions, publications and scientific valorization, will result in the online publication of a dictionary of the words of preaching, an online catalog of its sources and a cartography of preachers' itineraries. Collaboration with the Mucem will lead to the integration of certain pieces from the research-collection into the museum's collections, as well as the development of a travelling exhibition.
Supervision: Norig Neveu (IREMAM), Marie-Laure Boursin (IDEAS), Raphaël Bories (Mucem).
Requirements
- Research Field
- History
- Education Level
- PhD or equivalent
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Level
- Basic
- Research Field
- History
- Years of Research Experience
- None
Additional Information
Eligibility criteria
Required degree
- PhD in humanities or social sciences related to religion and/or the concerned area.
- Academic record (communications and publications, excluding thesis)
Scientific competence:
- Specialised in the humanities and in the social sciences of religion
- Good knowledge of one or more of the seven countries covered by the ANR PredicMO programme (Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestine)
- A strong empirical background
- Rigor, good writing skills, capacity for scientific project formulation, publication and research promotion
- Ability for team work in multidisciplinary projects
Management and administration of a research project
Language skills:
- Fluency in at least one of the languages spoken in the area
- Fluency in English in word and writing (C1 level preferred)
- An understanding of French (B1 level) is preferred for foreign candidates
- Ability to work according to rules and procedures. Ability to meet deadlines
Technical skills:
- The successful candidate will have an interest in digital humanities. Training may be provided as part of the programme
- Working knowledge of Desktop Publishing (DTP) required
Additional comments
Contract duration: 12 months, renewable.
- Website for additional job details
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7310-CHRVAY-009/Default.aspx
Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- Institut de Recherches et d'Études sur les Mondes Arabes et Musulmans
- Country
- France
- City
- AIX EN PROVENCE
- Geofield
Where to apply
- Website
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Candidat/Offre/UMR7310-CHRVAY-009/Candidater.aspx
Contact
- City
AIX EN PROVENCE- Website
http://iremam.cnrs.fr/
STATUS: EXPIRED