Religion and Society
Dr Kathleen Openshaw
Dr Kathleen Openshaw is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University where she also received her PhD. Kathleen’s main research interests are local migrant lived religious expressions and material religion. Her PhD research was an ethnography of the Brazilian megachurch The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in Australia. Kathleen is currently a member of the research team for an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, “The African Diaspora and Pentecostalism in Australia”. She is also co-editor (with C. Rocha and M. Hutchinson) of Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins. Leiden: Brill (2020).
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
