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View article: Girl Mossing, Rotting, and Resistance: Relational Naturalism and Dying Well Together
Girl Mossing, Rotting, and Resistance: Relational Naturalism and Dying Well Together Open
Living and dying well together in the Anthropocene, in the context of intensifying climate crises, global pandemics, and fast-paced hustle culture, is an increasingly daunting task. While many wellness movements call for strict regimes and…
View article: Dying ‘Buddhish’: Death, Diversity, and Worldview Complexity in and Beyond Australia
Dying ‘Buddhish’: Death, Diversity, and Worldview Complexity in and Beyond Australia Open
Buddhism contributes significantly to spirituality and wellness practices in contemporary Australia, influencing a new way of life not just for converts, but also broader society. Less frequently observed, however, is how Buddhism and Budd…
View article: Riotous methodological and methodointuitive reflections on (non)religion, spirituality and the multispecies turn
Riotous methodological and methodointuitive reflections on (non)religion, spirituality and the multispecies turn Open
The ‘multispecies turn’ in the social sciences and humanities is informing many disciplines including animal studies, anthropology, Indigenous studies and, more recently, sociology of religion. Scholars working on multispecies relations em…
View article: Decolonising Studies of Religion in So-Called Australia: Truth-Telling, Collective Reflections and Future Trajectories
Decolonising Studies of Religion in So-Called Australia: Truth-Telling, Collective Reflections and Future Trajectories Open
Studies of religion in the lands now called (by some) Australia have thus far focused mainly on so-called Abrahamic traditions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the southern states of New South Wales and Victoria and on theories from the…
View article: Spiritual complexity in Australia: Wellbeing and risks
Spiritual complexity in Australia: Wellbeing and risks Open
The turn of the twenty-first century was characterised by ‘spiritual revolution’, with claims that interest in New Age spirituality was eclipsing religion and would continue to do so in the future. Since then, scholars of religion have bee…
View article: Flows and Counterflows of Buddhism ‘South of the West’: Australia, New Zealand and Hawai‘i
Flows and Counterflows of Buddhism ‘South of the West’: Australia, New Zealand and Hawai‘i Open
Introduction to the JGB Special Focus section, "Flows and Counterflows of Buddhism ‘South of the West’: Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaiʻi." In this special issue, we endeavour to explore horizontal flows and counter flows of Buddhism on …
View article: Buddhism in the Far North of Australia pre-WWII: (In)visibility, Post-colonialism and Materiality
Buddhism in the Far North of Australia pre-WWII: (In)visibility, Post-colonialism and Materiality Open
Buddhism was first established in Australia through flows of migrants in the mid-nineteenth century, and is currently Australia’s fourth-largest religion. Yet Buddhists have received significantly less scholarly attention than Christians, …
View article: Selling (Con)spirituality and COVID-19 in Australia
Selling (Con)spirituality and COVID-19 in Australia Open
Conspirituality—the merger of conspiracy theories and spirituality—has attracted significant global media and scholarly attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article expands upon the ‘two core’ conspiritual convictions proposed by W…
View article: Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue Open
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View article: Whiteness, Religious Diversity and Relational Belonging
Whiteness, Religious Diversity and Relational Belonging Open
OPEN ACCESS CC BY-NC-ND-PAID African communities in Australia reflect the rich cultural and religious diversity of the African continent. Despite their persistence and agency, many members from these communities continue to experience a ‘f…
View article: Gender equality and digital counter-publics in global Buddhism:<i>bhikkhuni</i>ordination in the Thai Forest Tradition in Australia
Gender equality and digital counter-publics in global Buddhism:<i>bhikkhuni</i>ordination in the Thai Forest Tradition in Australia Open
Gender discrepancies persist in Buddhist societies and institutions, linked to cultural and religious beliefs and practices that allocate a lower status to women. In some Buddhist traditions, nuns cannot ordain to the same level as monks, …
View article: Tribute to Professor Gary Bouma, MDiv, MA, PhD, AM (1942–2021)
Tribute to Professor Gary Bouma, MDiv, MA, PhD, AM (1942–2021) Open
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View article: Higher Education, Exclusion, and Belonging
Higher Education, Exclusion, and Belonging Open
Generations of migrants from Asia since the 1800s have endured challenges in locating their place and belonging in Australia due to systemic racism and discrimination against the cultural and religious ‘other’. These persistent issues have…
View article: Worldviews Complexity in COVID-19 Times: Australian Media Representations of Religion, Spirituality and Non-Religion in 2020
Worldviews Complexity in COVID-19 Times: Australian Media Representations of Religion, Spirituality and Non-Religion in 2020 Open
In 2020, as infections of COVID-19 began to rise, Australia, alongside many other nations, closed its international borders and implemented lockdown measures across the country. The city of Melbourne was hardest hit during the pandemic and…
View article: Religion, Power, and Resistance
Religion, Power, and Resistance Open
This volume explores the intersections of religion, power, and resistance in a fast-changing world. The authors herein seek to disrupt the sociology of religion’s dominant paradigms, especially its overemphasis in Europe and the United Sta…
View article: Media Representations of Religion, Spirituality and Non-Religion in Australia
Media Representations of Religion, Spirituality and Non-Religion in Australia Open
Despite predictions of decline, religion has featured prominently in the public sphere and the media since the events of 11 September 2001. Previous research on media and religion in Australia post-September 11 has focused largely on its n…
View article: Introduction to the Special Issue: Religion, Power, and Resistance: New Ideas for a Divided World
Introduction to the Special Issue: Religion, Power, and Resistance: New Ideas for a Divided World Open
The world is currently gripped by pressing environmental, social, and economic challenges [...]
View article: Methodological challenges of designing a survey to capture young people’s (non-binary) affiliations in relationship to religion, sexuality and gender
Methodological challenges of designing a survey to capture young people’s (non-binary) affiliations in relationship to religion, sexuality and gender Open
Large-scale population studies surveying young people in relation to their
\nworldviews have tended to frame their identities in a fixed and limited
\ncapacity while also treating the topics of religion/spirituality and sexuality/
\ngender…
View article: Complex, Critical and Caring: Young People’s Diverse Religious, Spiritual and Non-Religious Worldviews in Australia and Canada
Complex, Critical and Caring: Young People’s Diverse Religious, Spiritual and Non-Religious Worldviews in Australia and Canada Open
Recent scholarly and media perspectives on religion and youth have often depicted young people as being apathetic when it comes to religion. The methods used in research on religion are also typically informed by outdated, fixed idea of re…
View article: Diverse worldviews education and social inclusion: a comparison between Finnish and Australian approaches to build intercultural and interreligious understanding
Diverse worldviews education and social inclusion: a comparison between Finnish and Australian approaches to build intercultural and interreligious understanding Open
Ongoing global issues relating to the decline of the popularity of institutional religions, the rise of numbers of non-religious persons, and new models of spirituality in superdiverse societies have resulted in the need to reconceptualise…
View article: Multifaith Third Spaces: Digital Activism, Netpeace, and the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change
Multifaith Third Spaces: Digital Activism, Netpeace, and the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change Open
Multifaith spaces typically imply sites where people of diverse faith traditions gather to participate in shared activities or practices, such as multifaith prayer rooms, multifaith art exhibitions, or multifaith festivals. Yet, there is a…
View article: Religious Diversity in Australia: Rethinking Social Cohesion
Religious Diversity in Australia: Rethinking Social Cohesion Open
This paper argues for a reconsideration of social cohesion as an analytical concept and a policy goal in response to increasing levels of religious diversity in contemporary Australia. In recent decades, Australian has seen a revitalizatio…
View article: Religious literacy of Australia’s Gen Z teens: diversity and social inclusion
Religious literacy of Australia’s Gen Z teens: diversity and social inclusion Open
Australia is a culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse country,
\nhowever, learning about the religious dimensions of this superdiversity
\nis inadequately reflected in the national school curriculum, notwithstanding recent atte…
View article: Sacred Places and Sustainable Development
Sacred Places and Sustainable Development Open
Religious beliefs are not only profound, some of them are also pervasive, persistent and persuasive. It follows that the cultural and religious experiences of communities often play a central role in determining their worldviews and the wa…
View article: Women and Ultramodern Buddhism in Australia
Women and Ultramodern Buddhism in Australia Open
Buddhists started arriving in Australia in large numbers during the mid-1800s, and the first Buddhist societies and centres began to be formed in the mid-late 1900s. This paper examines the role of women in bringing Buddhism to and establi…
View article: Australia’s Changing Religious Profile—Rising Nones and Pentecostals, Declining British Protestants in Superdiversity: Views from the 2016 Census
Australia’s Changing Religious Profile—Rising Nones and Pentecostals, Declining British Protestants in Superdiversity: Views from the 2016 Census Open
The 2016 Australian Census reveals continued change in Australia’s religious diversity. While reviewing some of the highlights of this development–the continuing increase in the ‘no religion’ category, the first ever decline in Catholic nu…
View article: Netpeace : the multifaith movement and common security
Netpeace : the multifaith movement and common security Open
This thesis examines how multifaith initiatives have been implemented as cosmopolitan strategies to counter global risks—such as terrorism and climate change—and advance common security in ultramodern Western societies. This study is among…