Our Research Aims

Catholic Diocese of Parramatta

The research is motivated by five specific aims:

  • To better understand the range of challenges that African communities face in Australia;
  • To determine why, in the context of these challenges, so many members of this new arrival group join Pentecostal churches and develop such a deep commitment to these institutions;
  • To investigate how Christianity facilitates (virtual and real) translocal and transnational mobility and thus an alternative geography of belonging;
  • To investigate how research findings in Australia compare with those in Europe and the US, and how the Australian case may enrich the global scholarship on Christianity and the African diaspora;
  • To contribute to policy efforts to improve outcomes for African communities in Australia.
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