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Western Sydney University - Bankstown Campus
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Anthropology | Religion and Society | Religion and Religious Traditions | Sociology | Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross-Cultural Studies | Sociology of religion | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies | Globalisation and Culture | Social And Cultural Anthropology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Religion and Society | Ethnicity and multiculturalism | Understanding international relations | National identity | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Migrant Development and Welfare |
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Publications
Establishing the John of God movement in Australia: healing, hybridity and cultural appropriation
Publisher: Consortium Erudit
Date: 14-02-2011
DOI: 10.7202/1007800AR
Abstract: João de Deus (John of God) is a Brazilian faith healer who has been attracting a large number of followers outside his country. In the past decade, he has conducted international healing events in Germany, the US, and New Zealand, among others. As a consequence, John of God’s story has been told in documentaries on North American, British, Australian, and New Zealand television. Many of these documentaries have been uploaded by followers on You Tube. Such global exposure has been accompanied by intense flows of people, ideas, and commodities between Casa de Dom Inácio (John of God’s healing centre in Brazil) and these countries. In this paper, I track flows between Australia and Brazil. I argue that the position of Australia as a colonial-settler society, where the aboriginal population has suffered immense loss, entails a different understanding of John of God’s particular brand of Spiritism. For many followers, the arrival of the ‘entities’ (spirits John of God incorporates) is perceived as a way to heal the wounds of the land. Such understanding is not found among Spiritists and John of God followers in Brazil, although the country also has a history of dispossession and suffering among indigenous peoples.
Qûetes transnationales de médecines «traditionnelles». La guérison spirituelle brésilienne en Océanie
Publisher: OpenEdition
Date: 15-11-2007
Introduction: Brazil in the New Global Cartography of Religion
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2013
Buddhism in the Far North of Australia pre-WWII: (In)visibility, Post-colonialism and Materiality
Publisher: Cantonal and University Library Fribourg
Date: 08-12-2022
DOI: 10.26034/LU.JGB.2022.1995
Abstract: 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, Jews and Muslims in Australia. Previous research conducted on Buddhism in Australia has also largely centered on the southern states, and on white Buddhists. This article shares findings of archival research on Buddhism in the far north of Australia, focused on Chinese, Japanese, and Sri Lankan communities working in mining, pearling, and sugar cane industries, pre-WWII. It documents the histories of exclusion, resistance and belonging experienced by Australia’s Buddhists in the far north of Australia pre-WWII, during times of colonial oppression and Japanese internment. In so doing, this article challenges dominant narratives of a white Christian Australia, and also of white Buddhism in Australia, by rendering Asian communities in scholarship on religion in Australia more visible.
The Globalization of the John of God Movement: Cultural Translation as Glocalization
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2017
Intimate Multiculturalism: Transnationalism and Belonging amongst Capoeiristas in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-03-2014
Seeking healing transnationally: Australians, John of God and Brazilian Spiritism
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-07-2009
Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 28-04-2020
Swanson, Paul, ed., Pentecostalism and Shamanism in Asia (Nagoya: Nanzan University Press, 2013). 169 pp. Free pdf online;¥ 2,000; US $20.00 paperback.
Publisher: Brill
Date: 2014
A Globalização da Cura Espírita: Biomedicina, João de Deus e seus Seguidores Australianos.
Publisher: FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Date: 06-2015
A Megaigreja Hillsong no Brasil: a constituição de um campo religioso transnacional entre o Brasil e a Austrália
Publisher: Universidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais
Date: 11-10-2016
DOI: 10.11606/ISSN.2176-8099.PCSO.2016.125085
Abstract: O Brasil é o maior país pentecostal do mundo e é sede de várias megaigrejas. No entanto, a megaigreja australiana Hillsong escolheu a cidade de São Paulo para estabelecer uma de suas filiais em 2016. Neste artigo investigo as conexões transnacionais que propiciaram a chegada da Hillsong no Brasil. Defendo que a intensa globalização das últimas duas décadas (particularmente as novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação) e o desejo de fazer parte do “Primeiro Mundo” tiveram papel fundamental na presença da megaigreja no imaginário dos jovens cristãos brasileiros, o que eventualmente levou a igreja a estabelecer uma filial no país. Em particular, analiso a existência de um c o religioso transnacional entre Austrália e Brasil. O conceito de c o religioso transnacional leva em conta a maneira como instituições religiosas globais afetam a vida quotidiana dos imigrantes, daqueles que ficam para trás e daqueles que retornam.
Cool Christianity: The Fashion-Celebrity-Megachurch Industrial Complex
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-10-2021
O Brasil na nova cartografia global da religião
Publisher: FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Date: 06-2014
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-85872014000100002
Abstract: Este artigo analisa as mudanças sociais, econômicas, culturais e religiosas que fizeram do Brasil um polo importante de produção do sagrado numa emergente cartografia global. Esta cartografia é policêntrica e entrecortada por uma miríade de redes transnacionais e multi-direcionais que facilitam o rápido movimento de pessoas, ideias, imagens, capitais e mercadorias. Entre os vetores que vamos examinar estão: imigrantes brasileiros que na tentativa de dar sentido ao processo deslocamento e de manter ligações transnacionais com o Brasil levam suas crenças, práticas, identidades religiosas para o estrangeiro, missionários e outros "entrepreneurs" religiosos, o turismo espiritual de estrangeiros que vão ao Brasil em busca de cura ou desenvolvimento espiritual, e as indústrias culturais, a mídia e a Internet que disseminam globalmente imagens do Brasil como uma terra exótica onde o sagrado faz parte intrínseca de sua cultura e natureza.
Materiality and Global Spiritual Networks: Old and new sacred places and objects
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2020
DOI: 10.1111/TAJA.12357
Building a Transnational Spiritual Community: The John of God Movement in Australia
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2013
Review of Westward Dharma: Buddhism beyond Asia by Charles Prebish and Martin Baumann
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2007
Global Religious Infrastructures: The Australian Megachurch Hillsong in Brazil
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-04-2021
DOI: 10.1177/00377686211001029
Abstract: This article explores the infrastructures that allow the Australian Pentecostal megachurch Hillsong to expand into Brazil. Hillsong is a global religious phenomenon: it has branches in global cities, celebrities among its followers, and an award-winning worship band. Drawing on five years of multi-sited ethnography in Australia and Brazil, I analyse significant infrastructures – smart church buildings, hip soundscapes, and digital media – that enabled Hillsong to establish itself in Brazil. I show that such technologies comprise an architecture through which Hillsong’s ‘Cool Christianity’ circulates. I argue that these infrastructures communicate success, excitement, modernity, and cosmopolitanism to young middle-class Brazilians who aspire to break with the local conservative Pentecostalism that caters for the poor. Here, I call for a focus on human and nonhuman actors and infrastructures that move religion across borders, and a special attention to how imagination and power differentials shape mobility and immobility.
‘Middle-class’ Africans in Australia: choosing Hillsong as a global home
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2021
O Brasil na nova cartografia global da religião
Publisher: FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Date: 06-2014
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-85872014000100002
Abstract: Este artigo analisa as mudanças sociais, econômicas, culturais e religiosas que fizeram do Brasil um polo importante de produção do sagrado numa emergente cartografia global. Esta cartografia é policêntrica e entrecortada por uma miríade de redes transnacionais e multi-direcionais que facilitam o rápido movimento de pessoas, ideias, imagens, capitais e mercadorias. Entre os vetores que vamos examinar estão: imigrantes brasileiros que na tentativa de dar sentido ao processo deslocamento e de manter ligações transnacionais com o Brasil levam suas crenças, práticas, identidades religiosas para o estrangeiro, missionários e outros "entrepreneurs" religiosos, o turismo espiritual de estrangeiros que vão ao Brasil em busca de cura ou desenvolvimento espiritual, e as indústrias culturais, a mídia e a Internet que disseminam globalmente imagens do Brasil como uma terra exótica onde o sagrado faz parte intrínseca de sua cultura e natureza.
Grafting cultures: Longing and belonging in immigrants' gardens and backyards in Fairfield
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2005
Imagining Latin America in Australia: Migration, Culture and Multiculturalism
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-09-2014
Global Power Relations at Play in Fieldwork: Researching Spiritism in Brazil
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 15-01-2009
Abstract: In this paper I seek to discuss the methodological challenges of conducting fieldwork amongst one’s own. I explore the fluidity of the outsider/insider identity within the research. I argue that a global “power-geometry” is at play when establishing rapport with a community where fieldwork is conducted. Using the Brazilian Spiritist healing centre established by John of God (João de Deus) as a case study, I show that the field in Brazil is not isolated from global flows. Thus researchers must take into consideration the impact of global flows of ideas and people on the religious community as well as the offshoots of this community overseas. Following Marcus (1998) and Clifford (1997), I suggest that tracking flows is as important as researching a specific site.
A Long and Winding Road: Cross-Cultural Connections Between Brazil, Australia and Japan
Publisher: The Japan Foundation, Sydney
Date: 12-2006
DOI: 10.21159/NV.01.04
Perspectives nouvelles autour de la mondialisation du champ religieux brésilien - New perspectives on the globalization of the Brazilian religious field
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2021
The Global Spread of Brazilian Religions
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Date: 07-07-2015
Flows and Counterflows of Buddhism ‘South of the West’: Australia, New Zealand and Hawai‘i
Publisher: Cantonal and University Library Fribourg
Date: 08-12-2022
DOI: 10.26034/LU.JGB.2022.3414
Abstract: 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 ‘paths less travelled’ across the Pacific sea of islands, and ‘South of the West’ (Gibson 1992) rather than the usual ‘from Asia to Europe and the Americas’ story. As such, this special issue fits within the more recent scholarship on the globalisation of Buddhism that seeks to point to a more complex picture of historical and contemporary flows of Buddhist ideas, practices, objects and peoples across the globe.
God is in Control: Middle-class Pentecostalism and International Student Migration
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2019
The role of CXC chemokine receptor 2 in Staphylococcus aureus keratitis
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
DOI: 10.1016/J.EXER.2014.07.016
Abstract: Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of corneal infection. CXC receptor 2 binding chemokines have been implicated in the pathogenesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa keratitis. The role of this receptor in immune responses during Staphylococcus keratitis remains to be fully understood. Corneas of CXC receptor 2 knockout and wild-type mice (Cmkar -/- & Cmkar +/+) were scratched and 1 × 10(8) cfu/ml of strain Staph 38 applied. Twenty-four hours post-infection, mice were sacrificed and eyes harvested for enumeration of bacteria and measurement of myeloperoxidase levels. Production of inflammatory mediators, cellular adhesion molecules and chemokines in response to infection were investigated by ELISA, and PCR. 24 h after challenge with S. aureus, Cmkar -/- mice had developed a more severe response with a 50-fold higher bacterial load than WT mice. PMNs failed to penetrate the corneas of Cmkar -/- mice. However, concentrations of KC, MIP-2, IL-1β and IL-6 were significantly elevated (6-13 fold) in Cmkar-/- mice. The concentration of LTB4 was decreased (2 fold). Cmkar-/- mice failed to upregulate mRNA for VCAM-1 or PECAM-1 in response to infection, but had constitutively higher levels of ICAM-1. A lack of CXC receptor 2 lead to an inability to control bacterial numbers as a result of failure of PMNs to penetrate the cornea to the site of infection, even when chemokines were more highly produced. These results imply that CXCR2-mediated signaling through upregulation of adhesion molecules is essential to margination of PMNs in this infection model.
Buddhism in Latin America
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 05-12-2016
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199362387.013.18
Abstract: This chapter presents an overview of developments of Buddhism in Latin America. Although not a major religion in the region, Buddhism has thrived among the tertiary-educated, white middle classes. Nevertheless, there has been a paucity of research on the topic, and the region seldom features in the scholarship on global Buddhism. Drawing on the extant scholarly work, government statistics, and Internet sites of Buddhist institutions, this chapter shows that the ways in which Buddhism arrived and is taking root in the region is similar to other parts of the Western world: with the arrival of Asian migrants, the flourishing of the counterculture and New Age spirituality, and globalization. This chapter argues that although Latin America may take a peripheral place in a network of global flows of Buddhism, it has never been isolated from flows of Buddhist ideas, beliefs, practices, material culture, and people circulating around the world.
Triangular Circulation: Japanese Brazilians on the Move between Japan, Australia and Brazil
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-09-2014
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