Slavica JakelicSlavica Jakelić, Ph.D.
(Boston University), Research Assistant Professor; Co-Director of the Program on Religion, Culture, and Democracy and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture;
434-243-5111;
email: sj3d@virginia.edu
(UVA instructor ID #c804) 
 
Sociology of Religion; Religion and Identity; Religion, Conflict, and Dialogue; Secularism; Theories of Religion and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Religion; Religion, Social Order, and Social Change, especially Religion, Post-communist Transition, and European Enlargement; Christianities; Historical Sociology; Theology in Sociological Perspective.

Education

  • B.A., Sociology, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  • M. T. S., School of Theology, Boston University
  • Ph. D., Religious Studies, Boston University  

Courses:

  • Spring 2008  Religion, Secularism, and Social Conflict
  • Spring 2007  RELG 333 Theories of Religions
  • Spring 2005  RELG 815 Religion, Culture, and Public Life
  • Fall 2004  RELG 815 Religion, Culture, and Public Life  

Books, Journals:

  • in progress Religion As Identity: The Challenge of Collectivistic Religions in the Contemporary World
  • 2006  (co-editor) The Hedgehog Review, “After Secularization,” Spring&Summer, 2006,    Volume Eight, No. 1&2 
  • 2004  Slavica Jakelić and Lori Pearson (eds.), The Future of the Study of Religion (Brill    N.V.)
  • 2003  Slavica Jakelić and J. Varsoke (eds.), Crossing Boundaries: From Syria to Slovakia,    Vienna: Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conference, Vol. 14. [published on the Web]

Articles and Essays:

  • forthcoming  “The Sixties: Secularization and the Prophecies of Freedom,” Prophecies of    Godlessness, Oxford University Press
  • 2006   “Secularization, the European Identity, and ‘The End of the West’” in  The Hedgehog Review, “After Secularization,” Spring&Summer, Volume  Eight, No. 1&2
  • 2006   “Religious Studies: A Bibliographic Essay,” Journal of the American  Academy of Religion, March, Vol. 74, No. 1
  • 2005   “Collectivistic Religions and the Problem of Religious Dialogue,” in With Dialogue To Peace, Split: Franjevački Institut za kulturu mira (in Croatian)
  • 2004   “Religion, Collective Identity, and Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina”,  The Hedgehog Review, Spring, Vol. 6, No. 1 

Honors:

  • 2003-2004 Post-doctoral Fellowship, Center on Religion and Democracy, UVA
  • 2002-2003 Dissertation Fellowship, Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame
  • 2001-2002  Junior Fellowship, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen Vienna,    Austria
  • 2000-2001 Elsbeth Melville Scholarship, Boston University Women’s Guild
  • 1999-2000 Frank D. Howard Fellowship
  • 1998-1999 William Jackson and Anna Worden Lowstuter Fellowship
  • 1998 -1999 Earheart Foundation Fellowship
  • 1997-1998 Earheart Foundation Fellowship
  • 1997-1998 Open Society Foundation Fellowship 

Current Projects:

  • Collectivistic Religions; Religion, Conflict, and Dialogue; Meanings of Secularism; Religion, Secularism, and Moral Consensus 

Activities:

  • Co-director, Program on Religion, Culture, and Democracy, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia