About AASR
The Australian Association for the Study of Religions (AASR) is a professional organisation, comprised of teachers, academics, students and others with a knowledge and experience of religious traditions, which was formed in Adelaide in 1976.
The AASR promotes the study of religion by:
- producing the journal The Australian Religion Studies Review;
- holding an annual conference;
- circulating an e-list of upcoming international events, scholarships and academic positions;
- hosting a website including a regularly updated portal with latest news; and
- facilitating networks of likeminded scholars
The AASR is a member association of the International Association for the History of Religions. Many AASR members also hold membership in other societies representing specific disciplines and cross-disciplinary fields.
The Association aims to function as a meeting place where the study of religion in its broadest dimensions may be fostered. It owes a considerable debt of gratitude to the Charles Strong Trust for financial support.
2012 Conference
Australian Association for the Study of Religions - 2012 Annual Conference
University of Western Sydney, Parramatta Campus
28 - 30 September 2012
Multiple Religious Modernities
Deadline for submissions of abstracts (individual paper or panel proposals) : 31 May, 2012
At the local and global level, religion is changed through social processes, but religion also impacts on societies at the structural and grass roots levels. As modernity and (de)secularisation are multilateral processes, the conference explores the multiple types of (de)centralisation, pluralism and voluntarism of religious life.
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