Journal of Religious History

The Religious History Association was formed in 2010 from the amalgamation of the Association for the Journal of Religious History (1959) and the Religious History Society (1998).

The Religious History Association aims to:
Promote and advance the study of religious history in Australia
Promote the study of all fields of religious history
Encourage research in Australian religious history
Publish the Journal of Religious History

The 8th Biennial Conference of the Religious History Association in collaboration with the Australian Historical Association, takes place in Adelaide, on 9 – 13 July 2012.

The theme is 'Secularism and History' and the keynote speaker is one of the world's foremost authorities on secularism, Professor Barry Alexander Kosmin. Find out more here.

The Journal of Religious History has moved to an online submissions system. Manuscripts should now be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jorh. Authors must supply an email address, as all correspondence will be by email. Enquiries should be directed to the Editorial Assistant, Mrs Anna Haunton, at jrh@sydney.edu.au.

American Presbyterians, Freedmen's Missions, and the Nile Valley: Missionary History, Racial Orders, and Church Politics on the World Stage
Heather J. Sharkey

Writing Witness History: The Historiography of the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
Zoe Knox

Provincialising God: Anglicanism, Place, and the Colonisation of Australian Land
Meredith Lake

Some Recent Trends in the Study of Religion and Youth
Carole M. Cusack

Evangelicalism and the Early Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1847-1860
Ian Miller

The 8th Biennial Conference of the Religious History Association aims to consider the question of the relationship between secularism and history. In conjunction with this, the editors of the Journal of Religious History are pleased to present this virtual issue on the theme of secularism. The virtual issue includes articles published in the journal from 1960 to the present day and we are confident that you will find this virtual issue interesting and informative.

The Journal of Religious History recently published a special issue on the topic of Cathar Heresy.

This collection of articles provides evidence of the very vigorous study of medieval dualism, Manichaeism, and Catharism in southern France currently taking place in Australia.

Some contributions are by experts in their fields (Cassidy-Welch, Pegg), others are by experts in other fields whose interest in these topics is considerable (Davidson, Zlatar), and others are by graduate students and early career researchers (Chenu, Chiu, Debergue).