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.
3 Day Colloquium – Call for Papers
CAMPION COLLEGE AUSTRALIA: 3 Day Colloquium, 31 AUGUST TO 2 SEPTEMBER 2012 A small but distinct revival of the Liberal Arts has recently taken place, as shown by the emergence of new Catholic Liberal Arts colleges in North America and Australia (such as Campion College) and by the growing litany of voices, in university and media circles, calling for a rehabilitation of the classical Christian traditions of learning in Western civilization. From Friday 31 August to Sunday 2 September, Campion College will host a three-day colloquium on the...
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The Religious History Association invites applications for funding support to religious history workshops. The purposes of the Association are: 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 Workshop Funding Guidelines for the Assessment of funding requests for research purposes including workshops to the Religious History Association. The maximum available for individual...
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Dear RHA members and Friends, The Annual General Meeting of the Religious History Association was held at Macquarie University on Monday 14 November. Minutes of the meeting prepared by Secretary Stuart Piggin are attached to this message. I am delighted to announce that Prof. Edwin Judge has been elected a Fellow of the Religious History Association. A profile will soon appear on the RHA website. Secondly, Professor Nancy van Deusen of Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada has won the Bruce Mansfield Prize for her article, “Reading the...
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The first Annual General Meeting of the Religious History Association was held on Monday 8 November 2010, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Woolley Common Room, University of Sydney. The meeting included the formal election of the interim RHA committee. Hilary Carey, President, John Gascoigne, Treasurer, Stuart Piggin, Secretary, and Ian Tragenza, Shurlee Swaine, Philip Almond, Carol Cusack, Chris Hartney and the RHA email circulation list. Attached documents: Agenda – RHA_Agenda_101010 Minutes 16.8.10 – RHA Minutes 16.8.101 Treasurer’s...
read moreThe British World Conference
The British World Conference – 2nd – 5th July, 2012 Proposals are now invited for ‘The British World Conference’, to be held at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, 2nd to 5th July, 2012, in conjunction with the Public Memory Research Centre and the Anglican Historical Society of Australia. The conference seeks to increase scholarly understandings of the religious and cultural adjustments that accompanied British political change and expansion. This conference is an exciting regional and international opportunity...
read moreSecularisation and Religious Belief
Two events of interest to those working in the field of secularisation and religious belief: A one day symposium on this subject will be held at Campion College, Old Toongabbie, Sydney on Wednesday 7 December (for details go to www.campion.edu.au) The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University has chosen as its subject for 2012/3-13/14 ‘Belief and Unbelief’. It will offering a limited number of research fellowships for one or two semesters. For further information go to:...
read moreRuth Frappell, Obituary
Dear friends, It is with great sadness that I am writing to let you know of the death of Ruth Frappell at the age of 69. Ruth passed away on Sunday 31 July at the Sydney Adventist Hospital after a short illness. Ruth was one of the strongest long-term supporters of the Journal of Religious History Association and played a key role in the negotiations which led to the foundation of the Religious History Association at the beginning of 2010. In 2011 she was made a Life Fellow of the Association in recognition of her services to religious...
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The Religious History Associaton will hold its 8th Biennial Conference in association with the Australian Historical Association in Adelaide, 9-13 July 2012. The theme for this Conference is Secularism and the keynote speaker was to have been one of the world’s most eminent authorities on secularism, Professor Barry Alexander Kosmin, Director, the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture and Research Professor, Public Policy & Law Program. Unfortunately, Barry Kosmin will be unable to join us in Adelaide. We wish...
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Religious History Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (RHAANZ) Conference – Waikato University Saturday 19 November 2011
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Religious History Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (RHAANZ) Conference – Waikato University Saturday 19 November 2011
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