During the four days of open sessions at the conference, participants tweeted over forty thousand words excluding hashtags and Twitter handles. This year’s conference had the biggest Twitter stream of any Australian Historical Association conference since 2012 and as my last post showed, more people tweeted the conference than ever before. A conference Twitter stream is a news … [Read more...] about Twitter Themes During 2015 Australian Historical Association Conference
Religious History Association
Beyond the Church Parade: Religious beliefs in the front line during WWI
Today I am presenting a paper at the Religious History Association Conference which is running as an affiliated conference to the Australian Historical Association conference in Brisbane. This post provides an abstract of the paper and supporting information about my paper. To general readers of this blog I hope that this gives you a feel for the work behind an academic paper. … [Read more...] about Beyond the Church Parade: Religious beliefs in the front line during WWI
Secularism and History: Religious History Association Conference Part 2
“Religious historians have an important role to play in resisting grand narratives of secularism and modernisations”, stated Professor Hilary Carey at the commencement of the Religious History Association Conference last week. “Instead of a single path to modernity there are many”, she argued while encouraging historians of religion to engage with this insight of … [Read more...] about Secularism and History: Religious History Association Conference Part 2
What is Religion? What is Secularism? Religious History Association Conference Part 1
All week I am attending the Australian Historical Association Conference in Adelaide. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post this conference is really four conferences in one. I have been mostly attending the Religious History Association conference which concluded today. This post gives a brief introduction to some profound philosophical debates about religion and secularism … [Read more...] about What is Religion? What is Secularism? Religious History Association Conference Part 1
