Dr Aaron Ghiloni
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Studies in Religion
Dr Aaron Ghiloni is the author of Islam as Education: Pedagogies of Pilgrimage, Prophecy, and Jihad (2019) and John Dewey among the Theologians (2012). His textbook, World Religions and their Missions (2022; 2015), is available in a second edition. Aaron is Associate Editor for the journal Religious Education.
Dr Ghiloni has research interests in Islam, Christianity, interreligious studies, John Dewey, and education–religion dialogues.
Dr Ghiloni has taught the following subjects within UQ’s Studies in Religion discipline: History of the Supernatural, Belief and Unbelief, World Religions, Spirituality in the Everyday, and Western Religious Thought from the Middle Ages to the Present. He supervises doctoral students working in religion and culture.
Books
Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2019). Islam as education: pedagogies of pilgrimage, prophecy, and jihad. Lanham, MD, United States: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic.
Ghiloni, Aaron (2012). John Dewey among the theologians. New York, United States: Peter Lang Publishing. doi: 10.3726/978-1-4539-0589-0
Book Chapters
Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2015). The varieties of religious mission. World religions and their missions. (pp. 1-14) edited by Aaron J. Ghiloni. New York, NY, United States: Peter Lang. doi: 10.3726/978-1-4539-1419-9
Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2015). Towards the comparative study of mission. World religions and their missions. (pp. 265-305) edited by Aaron J. Ghiloni. New York, NY, United States: Peter Lang. doi: 10.3726/978-1-4539-1419-9
Ghiloni, Aaron (2015). Holistic education. Encyclopedia of christian education. (pp. 595-597) edited by George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport. Lanham, NJ, United States: Rowman and Littlefield.
Ghiloni, Aaron (2015). Inter-religious education. Encyclopedia of Christian Education. (pp. 648-650) edited by George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport. Lanham, United States: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Ghiloni, Aaron (2015). Pragmatism. Encyclopedia of christian education. (pp. 976-979) edited by George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport. Lanham, NJ, United States: Rowman and Littlefield.
Journal Articles
Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2021). Religious education scholars cannot assume they are talking about the same things. Religious Education, 116 (4), 319-320. doi: 10.1080/00344087.2021.1953270
Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2019). Teaching democracy by teaching supernaturalism. Religions, 10 (8), 482. doi: 10.3390/rel10080482
Ghiloni, Aaron (2019). Publishers' series on Christianity and the liberal arts. International Journal of Christianity and Education, 23 (1), 140-142. doi: 10.1177/2056997118815415
Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2019). Interfaith education for all: theoretical perspectives and best practices for transformative action. International Journal of Christianity and Education, 23 (1), 117-119. doi: 10.1177/2056997118813336
Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2019). Supernaturalism: what’s a Deweyan to do?. The Journal of School and Society, 6 (2), 69-80.
Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2017). Review of Bert Roebben, Theology Made in Dignity: On the Precarious Role of Theology in Religious Education, Louvain Theological and Pastoral Monographs, no. 44. Leuven/Paris/Bristol, CT (Peeters) 2016, viii–147 pp, ISBN: 978-90-429-3416-0. International Journal of Practical Theology, 21 (2), 326-328. doi: 10.1515/ijpt-2017-0025
Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2017). Can cosmopolitanism work religiously? A response to David T. Hansen. Religious Education, 112 (3), 217-224. doi: 10.1080/00344087.2017.1303302
Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2016). Book review: Engaged teaching in theology and religion. International Journal of Christianity and Education, 20 (2), 167-168. doi: 10.1177/2056997116640232
Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2016). Muhammad, Education, and Finitude. Religious Education, 111 (3), 288-306. doi: 10.1080/00344087.2015.1132519
Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2013). Reforming formation: educational theory in dialogue with theological education. Uniting Church Studies, 19 (2), 51-63.
Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2013). On writing interdisciplinary theology. Practical Theology, 6 (1), 9-33. doi: 10.1179/pra.6.1.bp158hp6266484mr
Ghiloni, Aaron J. and Shaw, Sylvie (2013). 'Gumboot religion': religious responses to an Australian natural disaster. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 7 (1), 27-48. doi: 10.1558/jsrnc.v7i1.27
Ghiloni, Aaron (2011). Is formation education?. Journal of Christian Education, 54 (3), 29-41. doi: 10.1177/002196571105400305
Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2011). Interreligious education: what would Dewey do?. Religious Education, 106 (5), 476-493. doi: 10.1080/00344087.2011.613345
Ghiloni, A. J. (2009). A Deweyan reading of the doctrine of creation. Journal of Christian Education, 52 (1), 45-55. doi: 10.1177/002196570905200106
Thesis
Aaron J. Ghiloni (2010). Theology as Education: John Dewey in Dialogue with Christian Doctrine. PhD Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion & Classics, The University of Queensland.