Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1093265

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP1093265

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Pre-Christian Religions of the North: A History of Research and Reception. The Australian community, like others that share a predominantly Western culture, is indebted to the conceptual world of pre-Christian Nordic religions for many fundamental ideas, artistic and literary expressions and significant misconceptions: consider the fantasies of Tolkien, the significance of naming a boat Loki in the 2008 Sydney-to-Hobart yacht race, and the underlying ideology of Nazism. This project will reveal our community's general debt to Nordic religions through a study of how people have understood and used them from the Middle Ages until now, thereby revealing one of our culture's major influences.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 14-01-2010

End Date: 12-01-2013

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $357,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Literary Studies | Other European | Religion And Religious Traditions Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Studies in human society |

Other Keywords

Literary Studies | Other European | Religion And Religious Traditions Not Elsewhere Classified | Studies in human society

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