Introduction to the Special Issue

Dialogues of Secular and Sacred: Christianity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Australian Culture

Authors

  • Kerrie Handasyde University of Divinity
  • Katharine Massam University of Divinity

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jasr.22399

Keywords:

secularisation, Christianity, Australia, christology

Abstract

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Author Biographies

  • Kerrie Handasyde, University of Divinity

    Kerrie Handasyde is an adjunct senior lecturer in history at the University of Divinity, Melbourne. She is the author of God in the Landscape: Studies in the Literary History of Australian Protestant Dissent (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) and co-editor of Contemporary Feminist Theologies: Power, Authority, Love (Routledge, 2021).

  • Katharine Massam, University of Divinity

    Katharine Massam is a professor of history at the University of Divinity, Melbourne. Her research focuses on the intersections of theology and wider culture, with an emphasis on the ‘lived experience’ of faith and belief. Her book, A Bridge Between: Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in Australia (Australian National University Press, 2020) was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award in Australian History 2021.

References

Bellanta, Melissa 2010 A Hard Culture? Religion and Politics in Turn-of-the-Century Australian History. Australian Journal of Politics and History 56(1): 55–65. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.2010.01541.x

Hayes, Victor 1979 Toward Theology in an Australian Context. Australian Association for the Study of Religions, Bedford Park, SA.

Malone, Peter 1988 Discovering an Australian Theology. St Paul’s Publications, Homebush, NSW.

Malone, Peter 1999 Developing an Australian Theology. St Paul’s Publications, Strathfield, NSW.

McGirr, Michael 2022 Facebook status update, 31 January 2022.

O’Collins, Gerald 1986 Jesus Today: Christology in an Australian Context. Dove Communications, Melbourne.

Ungunmerr-Baumann, Miriam Rose 1988 Dadirri. Compass Theology Review 22: 1–2, 9–11.

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Published

2022-05-10

Issue

Vol. 35 No. 1 (2022): Special Issue: Dialogues of Secular and Sacred: Christianity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Australian Culture

Section

Editorial

License

Equinox Publishing Ltd.

How to Cite

Handasyde, K. ., & Massam, K. (2022). Introduction to the Special Issue: Dialogues of Secular and Sacred: Christianity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Australian Culture. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 35(1), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1558/jasr.22399