Religion and Society
Events
2025 Events
Videos of Seminar Series will be uploaded after the events:
Elenie Poulos, Macquarie University AND Cristina Rocha Western Sydney University
19 March 2025
The Rise of Australian Christian Populism and its Global Connections: https://youtu.be/niTh5LttITY
Joshua Waters, Deakin University
16 April 2025
Indigenous perspectives on Decolonising the study of religion: https://youtu.be/q9IIo6tUu6I
Leanne Green, University of Sydney
21 May 2025
Reasonable suffering: Baptists accounts of sin and responsibility in postcolonial Harare: https://youtu.be/S2FHAEnqC7U
Rosemary Hancock, Notre Dame University
18 June 2025
The Abject and Ecological Enchantment: Disgust, Discomfort and Disappointment in the Cultivation of Meaning in Urban Environmental Initiatives: https://youtu.be/ewDb97WlN7k
Awais Piracha, Western Sydney University
16 July 2025
Faith on the Move: How International Migration and Social Change are Reshaping the Geographies of Religious Belonging in
Australian Cities: https://youtu.be/hdy455JR_Fc
Tim Jones, La Trobe University
20 August 2025
The anti-abortion movement and the emergence of the New Christian Right in Australia from 1969: https://youtu.be/dmHcCxC-CAk
Adam Possamai, Western Sydney University
17 September 2025
Post-Secularism as the Secularism of the Exit of Secularism: Australia as a case study of Passé Secularism: https://youtu.be/maMn3QImed8
Bernard Doherty, Charles Sturt University
15 October 2025
The Haunted Heretic and the Hidden Gospels: Bishop James Pike and the Quest for Christian Origins
Kathleen Openshaw, Corrinne Sullivan, Lucy Nicholas and Matshepo Molala, Western Sydney University
5 November 2025
Christianity, Community and (Re) Connection among LGBTQIA+ African Heritage Refugees & Asylum Seekers in Australia
Jerrold Cuperus, University of Queensland
19 November 2025
Affective technologies: Crafting comfortable atmospheres in Pentecostal churches
