Religious Studies 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.

Featured projects Duration
Improving Vaccination Rates in Australia: Analysing Media, Religion and Policy
Westpac Bicentennial Foundation Research Fellowship
2017–2019
Teaching science-religion conflict
Summer Research Scholarship
2015–2016
Cosmology, the earth and politicised territory in the Mahābhārata
Summer Research Scholarship
2015–2016
Freedom and Protection in Medieval Monasteries
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers
2015–2016
Making it Real, Taking Learning Outside the Classroom