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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please join us at the symposium “<b>Pentecostal Charismatic Christianities and Migration</b>” co-convened by the Religion and Society Research Cluster/SSAP, Western Sydney University, and Alphacrucis College.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Date: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">2 August 2019<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Venue: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Level 9, Parramatta City campus, WSU<b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">169 Macquarie St, Parramatta <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Keynote Speaker</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Associate Prof Richard Vokes, UWA
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">“‘The Spirit Really Moved Me’: Metaphors of Movement in African-Australian Conversion Narratives”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Symposium Conveners:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Prof Cristina Rocha, Religion and Society Research Cluster, WSU<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Prof Mark Hutchinson, Alphacrucis College<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr Kathleen Openshaw, Religion and Society Research Cluster, WSU<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mrs Ingrid Ryan, Alphacrucis College<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Symposium Theme<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Over the past few decades, Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity (PCC) has exploded in the Global South and grown considerably in the Global North. Much of this grow this fuelled by networks of megachurches, the mobility of community
leaders across diasporic networks, migration and media. While traditionally missionaries would travel in a North-to- South direction, more recently megachurches from the Global South have moved horizontally, across to other developing countries, and also made
inroads in to the Global North in efforts of reverse missionisation. Such attempts to missionise to locals in the Global North have been largely (though not wholly) unsuccessful and churches have turned their focus to migrants from the Global South. Many studies
have shown that migrants, who were not attached to PCCs before migration, join churches in the diaspora as they offer them a home away from home. Meanwhile, diasporic churches also face difficulties keeping these (as well as second generation) migrants, since
they may prefer local churches in an effort to integrate. This symposium will probe these themes, discussing the many connections between PCCs and migration.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Registration: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">This is a free event but registration needed for catering purposes.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/pentecostal-and-charismatic-christianity-and-%20migration-symposium-tickets-64954862743">https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/pentecostal-and-charismatic-christianity-and- migration-symposium-tickets-64954862743</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For more details see attached flyer and </span>
<a href="https://pccinaussymposium.wordpress.com/">https://pccinaussymposium.wordpress.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Cristina</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Prof Cristina Rocha</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Director of Religion and Society Research Cluster
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">School of Social Sciences and Psychology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Western Sydney University</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">President:
<a href="https://www.aasr.org.au/"><span style="color:blue">Australian Association for the Study of Religion</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;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:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;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:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;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></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Latest book: <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/john-of-god-9780190466718?q=rocha&lang=en&cc=us"><span style="color:blue">John of God: The Globalization
of Brazilian Faith Healing</span></a> (OUP, 2017)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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