Mansfield Prize Award- 2018
The Religious History Association has decided to award the Mansfield Prize for 2018 (awarded to the best article published in the Journal of Religious History) to SUZANNE K. KAUFMAN “Les Miraculées de Lourdes: Sacred Celebrities in the Age of Mass Spectacle” published in the December 2018 (vol 42).
The adjudication committee (Katharine Massam, Shurlee Swain and Constant Mews) makes the following statement about the article of Suzanne Kaufman, Associate Professor at Loyola University, Chicago:
It examines the promotion of women as subject to miraculous healing as a remarkably successful strategy that created a new kind of religious celebrity: women healed through the grace of the Virgin. She looks at the medical figures who assisted in promoting scientific recognition of these female miraculées not just as a new phenomenon in the piety of the later nineteenth century, but as a marketing strategy, within the emerging mass media of the day. These women were able to create a new identity for themselves through belief that they had received miraculous healing.
The article fully conforms to the standards of religious history as established by the late Bruce Mansfield, founder of this journal.
Position of Co-Editors for JRH Filled
Journal of Religious History: Appoints Co-Editors The Journal of Religious History is pleased to announce the appointment of both Miles Pattenden (ACU Melbourne) and Sarah Irving-Stonebraker (University of Western Sydney) to the positions of co-editors, alongside Laura Rademaker (ANU Canberra) The selection committee consisted of myself as chair, Katharine Massam, Leigh Penman and Laura Rademaker. Many thanks to all involved in this process, especially to Kriston Rennie (outgoing co-editor) for his exemplary service. Prof....
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read more2021 Seminar Series – The Historical, Cultural and Critical Inquiry Cluster at the University of Newcastle
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read moreNew Directions for the Journal of Religious History
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read moreCALL FOR PAPERS – A workshop hosted by ACU and Deakin University – July 29-30
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read moreSymposium: “Jesus in [1950s] Australia”
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Symposium: ‘Jesus in [1950s] Australia’ Venue Pilgrim Theological College, 29 College Crescent, Parkville, Victoria on Friday 16 to Saturday 17 April 2021 How has the figure of Jesus been understood in Australia? What unexpected mid-century (1950s) perspectives continue to influence Australian religious and secular culture? The Jesus in Australia Research Project is running a 2-day symposium with new research in multiple discipline areas. A forum discussion, ‘Christianity in Conversation’, provides opportunity...
read moreMansfield Prize 2020 – Lisa Beaven
The Mansfield Prize Committee have decided that the best article published in the Journal of Religious History for 2020 is awarded to Lisa Beaven, ‘The Early Modern Sensorium: The Rosary in Seventeenth-Century Rome’, Journal of Religious History 44:4 (2020), 443-64 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12699 Lisa Beaven’s paper brilliantly shows how art historical skills can be merged with those of religious history, gender and the history of emotions, through a fine-grained investigation into an important devotional practice that...
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Members and Colleagues You are warmly invited to join the online book launch of: Evangelicals and the End of Christendom: Religion, Australia and the Crises of the 1960s (Routledge, 2020) by Hugh Chilton To be launched by Dr Michael Spence AC, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, The University of Sydney Date: Friday 27 November 2020 Time: 5:30-6:30pm AEDT RSVP: tiny.cc/chiltonbook About the book In the turbulent 1960s, two foundations of the Western world rapidly and unexpectedly collapsed. ‘Christendom’, marked by the dominance of...
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