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PaCT scholar's books launched
17 Sep 2018
PaCT Director Professor Stephen Pickard has commended Faith and the Political In the Post-Secular Age, edited by Anthony Maher, to a Canberra audience at a book launch for that work, along with The Forgotten Jesuit of Catholic Modernism.Faith and the Political In the Post-Secular Age features essays from a number of respected contributors, including Elaine Graham, Bob Dixon, Andrew Cameron, John Warhurst, Terry Veiling, Brendan Long, Frank Brennan, and Anthony.....
PaCT Fellow's book on dementia published
11 Sep 2018
PaCT Fellow Dr Christine Bryden’s book on living with dementia has recently been published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. As Dr Bryden notes in the Acknowledgements of the book, Will I still be me? Finding a Continuing Sense of Self in the Lived Experience of Dementia, the book is drawn from aspects of her PhD thesis which was supported by a PaCT scholarship. The publisher writes about the book: What does.....
PhD student presents at Giradian conference
03 Sep 2018
Charles Sturt University School of Theology PhD student Felicity McCallum presented a paper at the annual conference of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, held at Regis University in Denver, Colorado in mid-July. Ms McCallum’s presentation was on the topic ‘Sacrifice et Sagesse: Truth Telling from Eastern Australia, 1788-1842’. Ms McCallum’s PhD dissertation probes the truths of Australia’s history between 1788 and 1842 using Girardian Mimetic Theory. In her presentation,.....
PaCT Fellow interviewed about Order of St Charbel on The Project
20 Aug 2018
PaCT Fellow Dr Bernard Doherty was recently interviewed by The Project about the Order of St Charbel. The Project was doing a story on Claire Ashman’s experience at the community which is outside Wollongong and set up by William Kamm. Mrs Ashman described it as a cult and said she spent 10 years there before she decided to leave with her eight children. Watch the full story on Ten's website......
PaCT Fellow’s book published
20 Aug 2018
PaCT Fellow Professor Bruce Kaye’s book The Rise and Fall of the English Christendom: Theocracy, Christology, Order and Power has recently been published by Routledge. The book was launched by the Anglican Primate of Australia Philip Freier at a Queensland clergy conference on the 31 July 2018. About the book: English Christendom has never been a static entity. Evangelism, politics, conflict and cultural changes have constantly and consistently developed it.....
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Looking Beyond Division: Introduction to Ecumenism: A Five Day Spring School in Brisbane
24th Sep 2018 9:00am - 28th Sep 2018 5:00pm
The Centre for Ecumenical Studies (within Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, CSU) will present “Looking Beyond Division,” a five-day intensive introduction to ecumenism to be held at the Australian...
Religion and World-Making: From Earthrise to Astrobiology
25th September 2018
The Public and Contextual Theology Research Centre is hosting a lecture with Professor Lisa Sideris on the above topic on the 25th of September. Event details and registration form at...