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

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conference Registration is now open.

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

 
 
 

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