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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">We are advertising a fully-funded PhD scholarship in our ARC Discovery project “The African Diaspora in Australia: New Perspectives on Materiality, Media and Religion.” Within this larger
project, the PhD candidate will conduct ethnographic research with religious communities of African migrants and refugees in Australia. The PhD project will be developed within the fields of diaspora, globalisation and material religion studies. As such, an
ideal candidate will be trained in the social sciences and interested in one or more of these topics:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Material culture, the body, religious experiences, the senses, aesthetics, lived religion, ritual practices, infrastructures (e.g., the city, church buildings), mediatisation (traditional and new media), and transnational and translocal connections.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">The PhD candidate will be based in Sydney at the Religion and Society Research Cluster, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University. More details:
<a href="https://bit.ly/31f0F85">https://bit.ly/31f0F85</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Cristina<o:p></o:p></p>
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<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>
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<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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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">School of Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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>
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<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">Journal of Global Buddhism</a></i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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">Religion in the Americas series, Brill </a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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">http://www.uws.edu.au/religion_and_society/people/researchers/dr_cristina_rocha</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Latest books: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/john-of-god-9780190466718?q=rocha&lang=en&cc=us">John of God: The Globalization of Brazilian Faith Healing</a> (OUP, 2017), winner
of the 2019 Geertz Prize, SAR/AAA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><a href="https://brill.com/view/title/55810">Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins</a> (ed., Brill 2020)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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