Associate Professor Carole Cusack

Associate Professor Carole Cusack

BA
MEd
PhD

 

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+61 2 9351 6837

Address

Room N413
A20 - John Woolley

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  • Faculty of Arts Excellence in Teaching Award (2004)
  • CHASS Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision Award (2006)

  • Research Interests

    • Medieval Christianity
    • European Mythology
    • Theories of Conversion
    • Western Esotericism
    • Contemporary Religious Trends

    Publications

    • Publications (refereed)
    • Carole M. Cusack and Jason H. Prior, "Religion, Sexuality and Retribution: Placing the 'Other' in Sydney," in Carole M. Cusack and Christopher H. Hartney (eds), Religion and Retributive Logic: Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf (under consideration with Brill).
    • Carole M. Cusack and Christopher H. Hartney (eds), Religion and Retributive Logic: Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf(under consideration with Brill).
    • Carole M. Cusack, "The Goddess in Contemporary Paganism," in James R. Lewis (ed.), The Brill Handbook of Contemporary Paganism, Leiden, Brill, 2008, in press.
    • Carole M.Cusack, "Fiction, Feminism and the 'Celtic Church': The Sister Fidelma Novels of Peter Tremayne," in Pamela O'Neill (ed.), The Celts in Legend and Reality, in press.
    • Carole M. Cusack and Justine Digance, "The Melbourne Cup: Australian Identity and Secular Pilgrimage," Sport and Society, 2008, in press.
    • Carole M. Cusack, "Celebrity, the Popular Media, and Scientology: Making Familiar the Unfamiliar,' in James R. Lewis (ed.), Scientology, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, in press.
    • Carole M. Cusack and Jason Prior, "Ritual, Liminality and Transformation: Secular Spirituality in Sydney's Gay Bathhouses,' Australian Geographer, Vol. 39, No. 3, 2008 pp. 71-81.
    • Carole M. Cusack, 'Introduction,' in John R. C. Martyn (ed. and trans.), King Sisebut and the Culture of Visigothic Spain, Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 2008, pp. i-ii.
    • Carole M. Cusack and Justine Digance, "Shopping for a Self: Pilgrimage, Identity-Formation and Retail Therapy," Chapter 11 in Graham St John (ed.), Victor Turner and Cultural Performance, Berghahn, 2008, pp. 227-241.
    • Carole M. Cusack, "Konkokyo (Golden Light Teachings) and Modernity: A Test of the Faivre-Hanegraaff Six-Point Typology of Western Esotericism," Australian Religion Studies Review, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2007, pp. 317-333.

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