Dear all,
I’d like to invite you to submit abstracts to the interdisciplinary symposium *Pentecostal Charismatic Christianities in Oceania.* More information below and in the attached flyer. Please circulate this widely.
Date: 17-18 of August, 2018
Venue: Alphacrucis College, Parramatta
Abstracts due: 30 April, 2018 (title, 250-word abstract, short bio)
Submit to: ingrid.ryan@ac.edu.au
Keynote Speaker: Debra McDougall (Melbourne University)
‘Crashing waves: The transnational force of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in Oceania and beyond’
Symposium Theme
This symposium will explore the growth, movement and influence of Pentecostal Charismatic Christianities in Oceania. It will consider PCCs as a powerful cultural force within Australasian and Oceanic communities and their role in reconfiguring spatial, social, political and cultural relationships. While the causative influences of PCCs in Oceania are contemplated, the symposium will also look at the overarching cultural, economic and political milieus in which PCCs are embedded. Additionally, a consideration of PCC’s broader transnational scope of influence will enrich this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogue.
Possible topics:
· Historical developments
· Transnational Networks
· Settler colonial/Postcolonial studies
· Missionary activities
· Cultural translation, negotiation, adaptation
· Politics in Oceania and beyond
· Media, music, Information Communication Technologies
· Branding and marketing
· Late modernity and global capitalism
· Material culture and lived experiences
· Aesthetics and embodied practices
· Social justice movements/activism
· Migration and (im)mobility
· Gender, class, ethnicity
· Youth cultures
Cristina
Associate Professor Cristina Rocha|ARC Future Fellow
Director of Religion and Society Research Cluster
Western Sydney University
President: Australian Association for the Study of Religion
Editor: Journal of Global Buddhism
Editor: Religion in the Americas series, Brill
https://www.uws.edu.au/religion_and_society/people/researchers/dr_cristina_rocha
New book: John of God: The Globalization of Brazilian Faith Healing (OUP, 2017)