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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’d like to invite you to submit abstracts to the symposium “Pentecostal Charismatic Christianities in Australia,” which I am convening with Mark Hutchinson and Kathleen Openshaw at the Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney
U. More information below and in the attached flyer. Please circulate this widely.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Date:
<b>11-12 of August, 2017</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Abstract submission date:
<u>Friday, January 13, 2017 <o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Submit to:<b>
</b>Kathleen Openshaw <a href="mailto:k.openshaw@westernsydney.edu">k.openshaw@westernsydney.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%">Keynote speaker: Prof Paul Freston (Wilfrid Laurier University)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Pentecostal Charismatic Christianities (PCC) have grown significantly worldwide, particularly in the Global South. In Australia, the latest National Church
Life Survey has shown they have overtaken Anglicans as the second largest religious group by attendance, behind the Catholic Church. Data also points to PCC adherents’ higher educational attainment, now higher than among Anglicans. Moreover, Australia’s location
in Oceania, the ‘most Christian part of the world,’ means that many migrants from the region are Pentecostal and Charismatic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">On the other hand, Australian megachurches such as Hillsong, Planetshakers, COC and C3 have been influencing churches in many parts of the world, including
the USA and even Brazil, the largest Pentecostal country in the world. In this symposium we are interested in teasing out the remarkable growth of PCC in Australia, a country considered largely secular. We are hoping to discuss the following questions: How
have PCC grown from their humble origins to become such a force in Australia? What makes Australians join a PCC movement? What is the relationship between PCC and Australian politics? How do migrants and refugees negotiate identity, belonging and home-making
in Australia through Pentecostal/Charismatic churches? How can we account for the remarkable rise of PCC in Australia in a post-secular world? How do PCC expand in and out of the country?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">This call for papers seeks authors on topics which include the connections between Australian PCC and:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">•Historical developments
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">•Australian politics
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">•Media, music, Information Communication Technologies
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">•Branding and marketing
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">•Late modernity and global capitalism
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">•Material culture
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">•Aesthetics and embodied practices
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">•Lived experiences
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">•Social justice movements/activism
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">•Chaplaincy in schools<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">•Aboriginal Peoples
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">•Migration
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">•Gender and class
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">•Youth and celebrity cultures
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The conveners are planning to publish chapters in an edited volume after the symposium.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Cristina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Associate</span><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> Professor Cristina Rocha<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">ARC Future Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Director of Religion and Society Research Cluster</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Western Sydney University</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Editor: <i><a href="http://www.globalbuddhism.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Journal of Global Buddhism</span></a></i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Editor:
<a href="http://www.brill.com/publications/religion-americas-series"><span style="color:blue">Religion in the Americas series, Brill </span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/religion_and_society/people/researchers/dr_cristina_rocha" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.uws.edu.au/religion_and_society/people/researchers/dr_cristina_rocha</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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