Current and Future Identity and Direction for the AASR

Authors

  • Toni Tidswell Curtin University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/arsr.v24i2.121

Keywords:

Core identity, AASR, ERA, journal, membership

Abstract

The history and development of the AASR is well known to us, but we rarely take the time to consider if there is some distinctive core identity to our association. In this address I will pose some fundamental questions regarding identity: Do we have a core identity? Do we still have a sense of who we are and where it is that the association wants to go? And, can we maintain the diversity of membership, that we once recognised as a real strength, in our current circumstances where more and more of our members also belong to specialist academic groups based in distinct discipline areas?

Author Biography

  • Toni Tidswell, Curtin University
    Toni Tidswell completed her PhD at the University of New England in 2006 on women characters of the Qur’an and Hebrew Scriptures. She is an Honorary Research Fellow of the School of Humanities at the University of New England, and Sessional Lecturer and Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Social Science & Asian Languages at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. She was an executive member of the AASR in 2001–2003 and was elected President of the AASR in July 2008.

References

Tidswell, T. 2010 Fields of Study and Their Professional Associations: Identifying (as) Studies in Religion Researchers in the Australian Context. Presidential Address. Australian Religion Studies Review 23(2): 131-38.

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Published

2011-10-18

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 2 (2011)

Section

AASR Presidential Address

License

Equinox Publishing Ltd.

How to Cite

Tidswell, T. (2011). Current and Future Identity and Direction for the AASR. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 24(2), 121-126. https://doi.org/10.1558/arsr.v24i2.121