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Professor Carole M Cusack carole.cusack@sydney.edu.au Carole’s research and teaching interests include European paganisms, medieval Christianity, new religious movements, and contemporary religious and spiritual trends. She has published on medieval missionaries, holy trees, invented religions, and the ways in which new and alternative religions produce culture (art, architecture, music, and so on). She edits the Journal of Religious History with Chris Hartney, and teaches units including RLST 2626 Witchcraft, Paganism and the New Age, RLST 2631 Celtic and Germanic Mythology, and RLST 2605 Christianity and the Medieval World, and contributes to RLST 1002, RLST 1005, RLST 3601 and Honours units. TAFF Professor Iain Gardner iain.gardner@sydney.edu.au Iain was trained in early Christian literature and the history of religions at the University of Manchester, undertaking research work on ancient manuscripts in Berlin and Vienna, and had extensive experience teaching in both Britain and Western Australia before coming to the University of Sydney. He works on a number of major international research projects in areas as diverse as Egypt and south China, and has edited many original manuscripts in ancient languages, such as Coptic, from collections around the world. Though he is fascinated by all areas of the history of religions, his research interests are particularly in the world of late antiquity, in the many spiritual practices and religions of the ancient world. He is especially interested in those alternative forms of Christianity represented by apocryphal and gnostic literature that often flourished in places like the monasteries of the Egyptian desert or spread along the trade-routes of Asia and Africa. Dr Christopher Hartney christopher.hartney@sydney.edu.au Chris teaches and writes on the intersection of culture, politics, and religion in the 20th century. He researches New Religions in Vietnam, particularly the religion of Caodaism, and multiculturalism generally. He keeps his finger on the academic pulse by co-editing two scholarly journals, The Journal of Religious History, and Aesthetics, a journal of culture and beauty. With charisma and verve Chris teaches a range of thought-provoking courses in the department including RLST 2620 Religion and Violence: Faith and Blood, RLST 2625 Religion and the Arts, and RLST 2628 Religion and Film. 20
Dr Jay Johnston jay.johnston@sydney.edu.au Inspired by concepts of the self that challenge the traditional boundaries of the human being, Senior Lecturer Dr Jay Johnston is an interdisciplinary researcher who utilises her training in religious studies, continental philosophy, gender studies and art history to investigate theories of the intermediary, or ‘in between’, and its role in religious belief and practice (especially magic and esoteric traditions). This includes examining the way material culture evidences relations across metaphysical or faith boundaries or is identified as the physical locus of an intermediary agent. In particular she rethinks theories of embodiment, agency, image and materiality and their use in the construction of individual identity and the negotiation of cultural difference. Dr Johnston’s previous research has focused on energetic concepts of embodiment (subtle bodies) and diverse spiritual epistemologies. Dr Alex Norman alex.norman@sydney.edu.au Alex is a part-time lecturer for the Department of Studies in Religion, as well as the Managing Editor of the Journal of Sociology and a sessional lecturer and tutor in sociology at the University of Western Sydney. He researches the intersection of tourism and religion, and while many people think this does not include pilgrimage, he argues that it does. Alex also has an abiding interest in all things to do with new religious movements, and is presently working on a book-length project investigating how such movements have included travel in their practice. One day he would like to run an undergraduate unit on religions and cosmology. TAFF ACADEMIC COORDINATORS FOR 2014 Chair of Department, Semester 1: Professor Carole M Cusack Chair of Department, Semester 2: Professor Iain Gardner Undergraduate Coordinator: Professor Iain Gardner Honours Coordinator: Dr Jay Johnston Postgraduate Coordinator: Dr Christopher Hartney 21
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