Secularisation and British literature, 1600-1800. This project uses a new model of European secularisation, to develop an innovative account of British literary history in the 17th and 18th centuries. It shows that important literary movements and genres in the period knew no opposition between religion and secularity, thereby enabling a more nuanced understanding of secularisation.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE130101688
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$295,363.00
Summary
The Song of Songs in Victorian literature and culture. What do literary and artistic references to the Bible tell us about love, marriage and gender? Discussing the influence of the biblical book, the Song of Songs, on literature and culture in the Victorian era, the project will answer this question.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150100676
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$352,350.00
Summary
From Sivasasana to Agama: The (Trans)formation of Balinese Hindu Canon. This project is an interdisciplinary study of the foundational textual canon underpinning the reformed version of Hinduism that developed on Bali from the early 20th century. It aims to provide a new perspective on modern and contemporary Balinese Hinduism in the light of the premodern Hindu religious discourse, analysing neglected sources of textual and historical data. The approach is designed to do justice to the sophisti ....From Sivasasana to Agama: The (Trans)formation of Balinese Hindu Canon. This project is an interdisciplinary study of the foundational textual canon underpinning the reformed version of Hinduism that developed on Bali from the early 20th century. It aims to provide a new perspective on modern and contemporary Balinese Hinduism in the light of the premodern Hindu religious discourse, analysing neglected sources of textual and historical data. The approach is designed to do justice to the sophisticated and centuries-old Balinese tradition of translation and exegesis of Sanskrit sources from the Indian Subcontinent, which still plays an important role in contemporary Bali.Read moreRead less
The history of inebriation and reason from Plato to the Latin Middle Ages. This project aims to uncover the undetected but pervasive dichotomy between spiritual inebriation and physical drunkenness from antiquity to the Middle Ages. While Christian theologians, inspired by Plato, celebrated inebriation as a metaphor for a hyper-rational state in which the soul transcends the limitations of reason, Christian moralists, inspired by Stoic philosophy, condemned physical drunkenness as fall from reas ....The history of inebriation and reason from Plato to the Latin Middle Ages. This project aims to uncover the undetected but pervasive dichotomy between spiritual inebriation and physical drunkenness from antiquity to the Middle Ages. While Christian theologians, inspired by Plato, celebrated inebriation as a metaphor for a hyper-rational state in which the soul transcends the limitations of reason, Christian moralists, inspired by Stoic philosophy, condemned physical drunkenness as fall from reason. The project will analyse the cultural and intellectual history of inebriation with the aim of changing appreciation of how medieval thinkers inherited and transformed pagan classical ideas about drinking. Inebriation provides a hitherto unexplored path to rewriting the history of reason, urging us to consider our culturally-ingrained reactions to drinking.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140101577
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$364,362.00
Summary
Like frogs around a pond: Maritime Religion and Seafaring Gods of Ancient Greek Culture. Maritime religion is an important but overlooked factor in ancient Greek culture. Cults of seafaring gods throughout classical antiquity included rituals of embarkation, prayers at sea and offerings for a safe arrival, all of which contributed to establishing and maintaining a collective Greek cultural identity around the Mediterranean Sea. This project aims to assemble both textual and archaeological eviden ....Like frogs around a pond: Maritime Religion and Seafaring Gods of Ancient Greek Culture. Maritime religion is an important but overlooked factor in ancient Greek culture. Cults of seafaring gods throughout classical antiquity included rituals of embarkation, prayers at sea and offerings for a safe arrival, all of which contributed to establishing and maintaining a collective Greek cultural identity around the Mediterranean Sea. This project aims to assemble both textual and archaeological evidence for ancient Greek maritime religion; to explore the significance of cults of seafaring gods for ancient Greek ethnic identity, migration and colonisation; and to contextualise ancient Greek maritime religion with comparable modern customs.Read moreRead less