Dr Kathleen Openshaw is a senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, and Director of the Religion and Society Research Cluster, at Western Sydney University. Kathleen’s research is focused on the multifaceted experiences of those migrating from the African continent, migrant’s lived religiosity, material religion and sustainability in the time of polycrisis. She was a lead researcher on Australian Research Council Discovery Project, “The African Diaspora and Christianity in Australia” (with Prof Cristina Rocha and Prof Richard Vokes). She is co-editor of Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins (2020). Kathleen is currently working on her forthcoming ethnography of the Brazilian megachurch, The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in Australia, to be published with Rutgers University Press.
Qualifications
PhD Western Sydney University
Selected Publications
Books
Rocha, C., Hutchinson, M. and Openshaw, K. (2020), 'Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments From the Margins', : Koninklijke Brill 9789004425781.
Book Chapters
Hutchinson, M., Rocha, C. and Openshaw, K. (2020), 'Introduction : Australian charismatic movements as a space of flows', Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments From the Margins, Koninklijke Brill 9789004425781.
Openshaw, K. (2020), 'Extraordinary sacrifice and transnational spiritual capital in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God', Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments From the Margins, Koninklijke Brill 9789004425781.
Openshaw, K. (2020), 'Spiritual flows and obstructions : local deliverance in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God', The Social Scientific Study of Exorcism in Christianity, Springer Nature 9783030431723.
Openshaw, K. (2018), ''Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever' : faith memory, crisis and how reborn members of the redeemed Christian Church of God make home in Ireland', Memory and Recovery in Times of Crisis, Taylor and Francis 9781472481122.
Journal Articles
Openshaw, K. (2021), 'The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Australia : a church of non-Brazilian migrants', Social Compass, vol 68, no 2 , pp 231 - 244.
Openshaw, K. (2019), 'The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Australia : local congregants and a global spiritual network', Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, vol 32, no 1 , pp 27 - 48.
Openshaw, K. (2014), '"Being on fire for Jesus" : faith memory and how reborn members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God make home in Ireland', Irish Journal of Anthropology, vol 17, no 1 , pp 34 - 39.
Other Publications
2017, 'Community Services and the Women of Greater Western Sydney', Report