Research outputs per year
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Personal profile
Biography
Dr Kathleen Openshaw is a Senior Lecturer and the Diversity and Equity Coordinator in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University. Kathleen’s research interests include the lived religious expressions of negatively racialised migrants and material religion. Kathleen was one of the research leads on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project, “The African Diaspora and Christianity in Australia”. She is co-editor (with Rocha and Hutchinson) of Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins (2020). Kathleen is currently working on her forthcoming ethnography of the Brazilian megachurch, “The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in Australia”, to be published with Rutgers University Press. She is a member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists’ Integrity Committee.
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Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy, Western Sydney University
Research keywords
- Religion
- Christianity
- Pentecostalism
- Migration
- Material Religion
- Race
- African Diasporas
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African diasporas in Australia: Christianity and the complicated matter of trust
Rocha, C. & Openshaw, K., 2024, (E-pub ahead of print (In Press)) In: Australian Journal of Anthropology. 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Social media and pop culture
Openshaw, K. & Possamai, A., 2024, The Routlledge Handbook of Megachurches. Adogame, A., Bauman, C. M., Parsitau, D. & Yip, J. (eds.). U.K.: Routledge, p. 441-452 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Chapter
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African Expressions of Christianity in Australia
Rocha, C., Openshaw, K. & Clancy, M., 2023, Penrith, N.S.W.: Western Sydney University. 30 p.Research output: Book/Research Report › Research report
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The Significance of Religion for African Australians, and Building Belonging in Society
Openshaw, K. & West, A., 2023Research output: Creative Works › Audio or Visual Works
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Nothing to declare… apart from Holy Water : sacralizing borders and securitizing spiritual things in Fiji
Possamai, A., Presterudstuen, G. H. & Openshaw, K., 2022, In: Material Religion. 18, 3, p. 376-381 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Projects
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Christianity, Community and (Re) Connection among LGBTQIA+ African Heritage Refugees & Asylum Seekers in Australia
Openshaw, K. (PI), Nicholas, L. (Investigator) & Sullivan, C. (Investigator)
6/11/24 → 6/11/26
Project: Research
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Integrity Committee European Association of Social Anthropologists (Event)
Openshaw, K. (Member)
1 Jan 2023 → 1 Jan 2025Activity: Membership › Committee
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The International Society for the Sociology of Religion (Event)
Openshaw, K. (Other)
1 Jan 2016 → …Activity: Membership › Society
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Australian Anthropological Society (Event)
Openshaw, K. (Other)
1 Jan 2015 → …Activity: Membership › Society
Press/Media
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Navigating stasis and mobility : the journey of anointing oil
14/09/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media
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Navigating stasis and mobility: The journey of anointing oil
1/01/00
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media