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We foster the development of high quality scholarship about religion in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. 

Our members come from a diversity of scholarly backgrounds and training, including religious studies,
anthropology, history, philosophy, sociology, political science, psychology, and theology.

We offer a meeting place for scholars to engage, contest ideas and collaborate. 

50th Annual Conference of the AASR
Rural Religion and Religious Heritage

4-5 December 2025, Federation University, Ballarat, Australia

Papers and panel proposals are now being accepted for the 50th annual AASR conference.

Visit the conference page for further details.

Find the newest issue of the Journal for the Academic Study of religion here (External).

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