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.
Conference : The Australian Historical Association
8-12 July, 2013 Thanks to the initiative of Josip Matesic, the Religious History Association will be well represented at the annual (previously the regional) meeting of the Australian Historical Association. The leading paper will be presented by Wayne Hudson. Wayne Hudson is Professor of History and Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities at Griffith University. For information and registration, go to the 2013 Annual Conference of the AHA website: http://www.ahaconference.com.au/ The AHA conference is 8-12...
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The Evangelical History Association warmly invites all friends and members of the RHA to its 2013 conference, to be held on Friday 26 July at Robert Menzies College, Macquarie University, Sydney. The program features plenary sessions on evangelical history and historiography, its past and future, featuring leading scholars of evangelicalism in Australia and internationally: Dr Mark Hutchinson, Assoc Prof Stuart Piggin, Dr Geoff Treloar and Emeritus Professor Keith Sewell. The regular sessions are concerned with colonial Anglicanism,...
read moreCollaboratory ‘Sacred Places, Pilgrimage and Emotions’
Collaboratory : 23 – 25 May at the University of Melbourne The collaboratory ‘Sacred Places, Pilgrimage and Emotions’, convened by Professor Charles Zika and Dr Sarah Randles, will take place from Thursday 23 May until Saturday 25 May 2013 at the University of Melbourne. This interdisciplinary collaboratory, hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, will explore the emotions created in response to sacred place or space from the late antique to the modern period, and how these emotions are...
read moreCall for Papers: Empire, Faith and Conflict Conference
Empire, Faith and Conflict Conference, 3-5 October 2013 University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Australia Please note : Proposals for Papers, Sessions and Posters should be submitted to the World History Association at http://www.thewha.org/. Papers are invited from scholars and postgraduate students of all historical traditions, periods and genres, including the Ancient, Medieval and Modern ages. Session themes might include (but are not limited to) imperialism; science and faith; mission; church history; military history; gender...
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Preaching Australia: religion, public conversation and the sermon : 2 Day Conference 19 – 20 September 2013 St Mark’s National Theological Centre, Canberra Call for Papers for a two-day conference entitled ‘Preaching Australia: religion, public conversation and the sermon’, to be held on 19-20 September 2013, at St Mark’s National Theological Centre, Canberra. Our two plenary speakers: Professor Alan Atkinson ( Emeritus Prof at UNE and Senior Tutor at St Paul’s College, University of Sydney) and Professor Hilary Carey...
read moreRHA Conference: Christian World Community and the Cold War
Conference: Bratislava Svaty Jur – October 4 – 8 We are planning a new research conference in Bratislava Svaty Jur on October 4 – 8, 2013 (including arrival and departure days) (Conference: three days 5-7) and we would like to invite researches to bring new studies in the area of the Christian World Community and the Cold War. We invite all researchers to participate if they have a new study to present in the conference. Board and lodging expenses will met for the participant willing to present a paper. For further...
read moreRHA small grants, closing 31 April 2013
The Religious History Association invites applications for small grants to support the purposes of the Association: to promote and advance the study of religious history in Australia to promote the study of all fields of religious history to encourage research of Australian religious history to publish the Journal of Religious History Funding Guidelines for the assessment of workshop grants. The maximum available for individual requests is about $500. Provide a brief abstract of the workshop indicating title, theme, time, place, etc. (100...
read moreCFP: AHA/ RHA Conference, 8-12 July 2013
Theme: ‘Mobilities and Mobilisations in History’ The Australian Historical Association (AHA) is pleased to invite abstracts for parallel sessions and individual papers for its annual conference at the University of Wollongong. This year’s theme is in reference to the growing use of ‘mobility’ as a key theoretical term in the humanities and social sciences. We welcome submissions that consider the value of a mobilities framework for historical analysis, but we accept submissions on all historical periods, themes and research areas....
read moreCFP: SLA Conference, 2-3 August 2013
Addressing the Sacred through Literature and the Arts Friday 2 August – Saturday 3 August 2013 Australian Catholic University, 25A Barker Road, Strathfield NSW 2135, Australia `Addressing the Sacred’ is the second in a continuing series of conferences presented by The Sacred in Literature and the Arts (SLA), a community of interest that aims to bring Australian and international writers, artists, musicians, academics, religious and members of the general public together to talk about the interplay between the arts and the...
read moreCIHEC conference, 6-8 June 2013
CFP: CHRISTIANS AND THE NON-CHRISTIAN OTHER A CIHEC conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, 6-8 June 2013 The Lithuanian national commission of CIHEC will organize a conference with the theme ‘Christians and the non-Christian other’. The theme was selected at the meeting of the CIHEC bureau in Tartu last summer in order to offer the chance for scholars of different periods to investigate the relations between Christians and those who are not Christians in different ages, contexts and conditions. This can mean the interplay between...
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