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Book News: Losing Ground
27 Oct 2021
Congratulations to Public and Contextual Theology (PaCT) research fellow Dr Jione Havea on the publication of his recent book Losing Ground: Reading Ruth in the Pacific. Dr Havea's book is published by SCM Press and give the following description about the book: The Ruth narrative opens with a climate crisis – a famine pushed a family to migrate – and addresses some of the critical concerns for refugees: food, security,.....
Scholar News: Political Theology as Transformative Opposition
15 Oct 2021
The Centre for Public and Contextual Theology Research Fellow Dr Steven Ogden has had a piece published on the Political Theology network titled "Political Theology as Transformative Opposition". His forthcoming book is Violence, Entitlement, and Politics (Routledge, 2021), where he identifies entitlement as predominantly a masculine gender pattern, characterised by proprietorial thinking, which has personal and political implications. He previously published The Church, Authority, and Foucault (Routledge, 2017), which examines.....
Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisations (CISAC) launches research website
10 Oct 2021
The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisations (CISAC) at Charles Sturt University has launched a research website for its research projects, activities and outputs. This page includes CISAC staff’s published articles and summaries of their research outputs. The page also introduces the summaries of CISAC students’ high-quality essays. The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation (CISAC) operates under the Faculty of Arts and Education and collaborates with the Public and.....
A fellowship of the vaccinated?
22 Sep 2021
PaCT research fellow Dr Andrew Errington has written an opinion piece for ABC Religion and Ethics titled "A fellowship of the vaccinated? How churches should — and should not — respond to the state government’s COVID-19 restrictions" . The piece was published on 20 September 2021......
Book News
31 Aug 2021
Congratulations to PaCT scholar Dr Jione Havea on the publication of his edited book of essays titled MEDIAting Theology published by Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. According to the publisher: This collection engages the challenges and opportunities for doing theology in the context or age of media. The intersection of media with theology is reciprocating: media boosts theology in its functions to inform, connect and educate; theology humbles the globalizing media with a.....
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