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.
Voyages and Visions : A Symposium in Honour of John Gascoigne and Ian Tyrell
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Book Launches : Sydney – 26 May 2015 and Melbourne – 5 June 2015 There will be Sydney and Melbourne Book Launches for Glen O’Brien and Hilary Carey, eds. Methodism in Australia: A History (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015). http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472429483 Please circulate this information among your circle of contacts. You can also follow updates on the two Facebook Events pages. Sydney: https://www.facebook.com/events/382828755235626/ Melbourne: https://www.facebook.com/events/1566652173623695/...
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The Religious History Association invites applications for grants to support the study and publication of religious history. The closing date for applications is 31 May 2015. The aim of the grants is to facilitate the holding of workshops/conferences with a view to publication of research. Two forms of grant will be considered consistent with that aim: (i) Small grants of $500-$1000 (ii) A large grant of up to $6000 for an application which makes the case for the exploration of a major theme or a significant and...
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RELIGIOUS HISTORY ASSOCIATION – Annual Conference 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS FOUNDATIONAL RELIGIOUS HISTORIES – Local and Global, Past and Present Recent global events make it clear that religious identities remain a powerful motivating force in today’s world. Religious communities are everywhere shaping the dynamics of conflict and cooperation, and the experiential frameworks of religious traditions continue to offer a deep sense of meaning and belonging against the alienating tendencies of modern existence. What role does history play...
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