Announcement
The Special Issue on Religion and Violence (2020; Vol. 33, No. 3) is now published with the Journal of the Academic Study of Religion. This Special Issue is guest edited by Dr Kathleen McPhillips, with the following papers:
- Introduction to Special Issue on Religion and Violence by Kathleen McPhillips
- Ventures of Women in Relation to Religion and Violence by Morny Joy
- From Pacifism to Tyrannicide: Considering Bonhoeffer’s Ethics for the Anthropocene by Dianne Rayson
- The Christchurch Mosque Massacre: Terror and Hope by Douglas Pratt
- Reconceptualising Law: ‘Pagan’ Violence and Augustinian Peace by Alex Deagon
- ‘The kafir’s blood is halal for you’: The Doctrine of Jihād in Dabiq and Rumiyah by Christopher J. van der Krogt
Conferences
National Graduate Student Workshop: Representing Belief, 7-8 December 2021 (online). Application deadline: 30 Sep 2021. More info.
46th Annual Conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion on ‘Hope’, 9-10 December 2021. Abstract deadline: 31 Oct 2021. More info.
Intellectual Authority and its Changing Infrastructures in North American and Australian Christianity, 1960s-2010s, ACU and Deakin University (online), 29-30 July 2021. Abstract deadline: 30 May 2021. More info.
Australian Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (AAIMS), online: “The Future of Islam and Humanity: Local and Global Challenges and Opportunities”. 14-16 September 2021. Proposals due by 1 June 2021. More info.
New Zealand Association for the Study of Religion Conference on ‘Aotearoa Spirit’, Victoria University of Wellington, 29-30 November 2021. Abstract deadline: 3 September 2021. More info.
Publications
Call for papers: Special Issue “Female Mystics and the Divine Feminine in the Global Sufi Experience”. Deadline 1 July 2021.
Upcoming Event:
Buddhism in the Far North of Australia pre-WWII: (In)visibility, colonialism and lived religion. 17 June 2021. 4-5.30pm. Zoom event. More info.
Job Opportunity:
Deputy Director, Contemplative Studies Centre, University of Melbourne
Selby Old Fellowship in Religious History of the Orthodox Christian Faith, University of Sydney
New Publications:
Andrew Singleton, Mary Lou Rasmussen, Anna Halafoff and Gary Bouma (2021). Freedoms, Faiths and Futures: Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity. Bloomsbury.
Enqi Weng and Fethi Mansouri (2021). ‘‘Swamped by Muslims’ and facing an ‘African gang’ problem: racialized and religious media representations in Australia’, Continuum.
David W. Kim (2021). ‘Cao Đài and Gucheon Sangje: Ethnical Grassroots Religious Movements in Colonial Vietnam and Korea’, InternationalJournal of Religion and Spirituality in Society 11, 2: 81-101.
David W. Kim (2021). ‘Public Trust Lost and a Sign of Retroflexion: The Socio-Political Ecology of the Korean Church during the COVID-19 Pandemic’, Journal of Church and State, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csab006
Have you a new event, job opportunity or latest publication to share with us? Please get in touch with the AASR’s Communication Officer, Dr Enqi Weng, at enqi.weng@deakin.edu.au with details by mid of 2nd and 4th week of each month to be included in our newsletter. Thank you.