Dr Aaron Ghiloni

Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Studies in Religion

a.ghiloni@uq.edu.au

Dr Aaron Ghiloni is the author of Islam as Education: Pedagogies of Pilgrimage, Prophesy, and Jihad (2019) and John Dewey among the Theologians (2012). He is the editor of World Religions and their Missions (2015), and an 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.

Publications

Books (2)

Book Chapters (5)

Journal Articles (10)

Thesis (1)

Books

Ghiloni, Aaron J. Islam as education: pedagogies of pilgrimage, prophecy, and jihad. Lanham, MD USA: Fortress Academic, 2019.

Ghiloni, Aaron John Dewey among the theologians. New York, United States: Peter Lang Publishing, 2012.

Book Chapters

Ghiloni, Aaron (2015). Holistic education. In George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport (Ed.), Encyclopedia of christian education (pp. 595-597) Lanham, NJ, United States: Rowman and Littlefield.

Ghiloni, Aaron (2015). Inter-religious education. In George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Christian Education (pp. 648-650) Lanham, United States: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Ghiloni, Aaron (2015). Pragmatism. In George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport (Ed.), Encyclopedia of christian education (pp. 976-979) Lanham, NJ, United States: Rowman and Littlefield.

Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2015). The varieties of religious mission. In Aaron J. Ghiloni (Ed.), World religions and their missions (pp. 1-14) New York, NY, United States: Peter Lang.

Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2015). Towards the comparative study of mission. In Aaron J. Ghiloni (Ed.), World religions and their missions (pp. 265-305) New York, NY, United States: Peter Lang.

Journal Articles

Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2019) Teaching democracy by teaching supernaturalism. Religions, 10 8: 482. doi:10.3390/rel10080482

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) 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.

Areas of research

Religion and Culture