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.
Seminar Paper by Constant Mews – Venue : The University of Sydney 15 May 2017
Monday, 15 May 2017 Place: Kevin Lee Room Level 6, Lobby H Quadrangle Building Time: 4pm-5.30pm Prof Constant J. Mews (Monash University) “Rethinking Religious History in Global Perspective: Songlines, Sacred Stories and Theologies” Religious history can often become a celebration of what is parochial, without awareness of larger global issues. By contrast. the history of religions often deals with global perspectives, but can become out of touch with the specificity of particular moments in time and political circumstance. This lecture...
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Trajectories: boundaries and diversity in Evangelicalism This symposium is occasioned by the publication of the final volume in the History of Evangelicalism series (IVP). The Disruption of Evangelicalism examines the first half of the twentieth century. However the themes identified by Dr Geof f Treloar of ACT have potential for much wider application. Identity, diversity, response to rapid change, these are concerns with which evangelical Christians have grappled throughout their history. This is no less true for the churches of...
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National Uniting Church History Conference At its meeting in 2015, the Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia decided to establish a national historical society. This society will be launched at the first Uniting Church History Conference, to be held at Pilgrim Uniting Church in Adelaide from 9 to 12 June 2017 (Queen’s Birthday long weekend). The theme of this national conference, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Uniting Church, is : ‘A Pilgrim People – 40 Years On’ It will include major lectures from invited...
read moreWinner – Bruce Mansfield Prize, 2016
The Religious History Association is proud to announce that Erc Dursteler is the winner of the 2016 Bruce Mansfield Prize for the article, “Fearing the ‘Turk’ and Feeling the Spirit: Emotion and Conversion in the Early Modern Mediterranean”, Journal of Religious History 39.4 (December 2015): 484-505. The Bruce Mansfield prize is worth AUS$500 and is awarded for the best article published in the Journal of Religious History in the previous calendar year. It is named after the foundation editor of the journal, Professor Bruce Mansfield. The...
read moreABR FELLOWSHIP 2017 – Writing Opportunities
2017 ABR RAFT Fellowship Australian Book Review seeks applications for the second RAFT Fellowship. They welcome proposals for a 6,000 to 8,000 word articles on any aspect of the role and significance of religion in society and culture. The ABR RAFT Fellowship is worth $7,500. DEADLINE Applications close 10 March 2017 FULL DETAILS including guidelines can be found on their website at: https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=2380&Itemid=770...
read moreCALL FOR PAPERS – 2017 Conference of the Religious History Association
2017 Conference of the Religious History Association Held in conjunction with the Australian Historical Association’s 36th Annual Conference. Conference dates: 3 – 7 July, 2017 Location: Newcastle Abstract Proposals due 31st March 2017 The Religious History Association welcomes proposals for panel sessions and individual papers exploring : interaction of gender and religion in cross‐cultural contexts, especially at Christian missions or in contexts of cultural change or contestation; how spiritual factors have interacted with questions...
read moreInvitation to the Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies, 5, 6 & 7 December 2016
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies. Registration for the Fall Session (5, 6 & 7 December) is now open. You are invited to present a paper on an aspect of religious studies, or you may wish to attend as an observer. The symposium is inter-disciplinary and has a broad-based theme. The deadline for proposals is 14 November 2016. Early Registration is 10 October 2016 and is £60 less than the regular registration fees. The meeting will be held at The Old Library in the Oxford University...
read moreThe ‘Heretics’ – One Day Colloquium
The ‘Heretics’, an ecumenical theological discussion group, will be marking its centenary with a one day colloquium on the theme of: ‘Creeds and Conflicts: Doing Theology in Sydney 1916-2016’ To be held at St Paul’s College, Sydney University on Wednesday 30 November 2016. REGISTRATION DETAILS & PROGRAM AS FOLLOWS: ‘Creeds and Conflict: Doing Theology in Sydney 1916-2016’ Heretics Centenary Conference & St Paul’s College Colloquium 2016 St Paul’s College, University of Sydney. 30 November 2016 PROGRAM...
read moreOxford Symposium on Religious Studies, 2016
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies. Registration for the Summer Session (1, 2 & 3 August) is now open. The meeting will be held at The Old Library in the Oxford University Church of St Mary. Constructed in 1320, The Old Library is the first university (as opposed to college) building in Oxford and therefore uniquely important; this is where the nascent University began. The sessions will be hosted by Canon Brian Mountford MBE, Vicar of St Mary’s. Dr. Mountford is a Fellow and...
read moreCALL FOR PAPERS – EHS Conference
Ecclesiastical History Society Conference: The Church and Empire 26-28 July 2016 – University of Edinburgh Plenary speakers: Stuart Jay Brown (Edinburgh) Gillian Clark (Bristol) Ruth Macrides (Birmingham) Ronnie Hsia (Penn State) Deadline: 15 April The conference will explore the relations of Churches and empires, and Christian conceptions of empire, in the ancient, medieval, early modern and modern periods, as well as the role of empire in the global expansion of Christianity. Themes that could be explored in papers...
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