Kathleen Openshaw

is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University, where she teaches ethics. Kathleen’s research interests are local migrant lived religious expressions and material religion. Kathleen is a member of the research team for an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, “The African Diaspora and Christianity in Australia”. She is co-editor (with Rocha and Hutchinson) of Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins (2020). Kathleen is currently working on her forthcoming ethnography of the Brazilian megachurch, The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in Australia, to be published with Rutgers University Press.