[Commlist] 2 PhD scholarships: The African Diaspora and Pentecostalism in Australia

We are offering 2 PhD scholarships (1 based in Sydney and 1 in Perth) as 
part of the Australian Research Council (ARC) funded project: “*The 
African Diaspora and Pentecostalism in Australia: New Perspectives on 
Materiality, Media and Religion*.”

This project investigates the new African Diaspora in Australia and its 
embrace of Pentecostalism, particularly after arrival. The African 
community in Australia has often been associated with poor settlement 
outcomes, and has also been on the receiving end of a racialised moral 
panic. The project aims: to understand the range of challenges 
African-Australian communities faces; to determine why so many of their 
members join Pentecostal churches; to investigate how Pentecostal 
churches support these communities' translocal and transnational 
mobility and sense of belonging, and; to contribute to policy efforts to 
improve outcomes for African new arrivals in Australia.

Within this larger project, the PhD candidates will conduct ethnographic 
research with Pentecostal churches and African Diasporas in Australia. 
Both projects will investigate questions such as: how do Pentecostal 
churches support/hinder processes of settlement and ‘integration’? How 
do some Pentecostal megachurches generate transnational religious fields 
– ones which may harness resources from branches elsewhere in the world? 
And what impact does all of this have on Australian cities’ post-secular 
social landscapes?

We welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds: anthropology, 
sociology, religious studies, cultural studies, African studies, 
Migration studies or a related field. In particular, the project is 
suitable for candidates with strong interests in the intersections of 
migration and religion. Applications from students of African heritage 
are especially welcomed.

*Deadline:* 30 June 2019

For more details, see

1.https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/graduate_research_school/grs/scholarships/current_scholarships/current_scholarships/ssap_the_african_diaspora_and_pentecostalism_in_australia 
(Religion and Society Research Cluster, School of Social Sciences and 
Psychology, Western Sydney University, Sydney)

2.http://www.scholarships.uwa.edu.au/search?sc_view=1&id=8941 (School of 
Social Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth).


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