Studies in Religion at UQ is one of only two Australian research bodies within the country dedicated to world-class scholarship in religion and culture. The discipline’s primary research strengths lie in the history of religions, the global impact of both eastern and western religious thought, and analyses of contemporary religious movements. These strengths are associated with staff specialties in the history of religious ideas in South Asian contexts, Christian spirituality and pastoral care, as well as the sociology of religion and science-religion discourse.

Research Statements (2016)

Featured projects Duration
Improving Vaccination Rates in Australia: Analysing Media, Religion and Policy
Westpac Bicentennial Foundation Research Fellowship
20172019
Cosmology, the earth and politicised territory in the Mahābhārata
Summer Research Scholarship
20152016
Teaching science-religion conflict
Summer Research Scholarship
20152016
Freedom and Protection in Medieval Monasteries
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers
20152016
Making it Real, Taking Learning Outside the Classroom