Dr Timothy Stanley
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci (Philosophy)
- Email:timothy.stanley@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4921 7927
Career Summary
Biography
My work addresses novel topics in philosophy of religion. Through funded research publications, I’ve generated apt new models of how religion interacts with technological change, deliberative democracy and the critique of metaphysics. Future work is planned on situated religious cognition. The courses I teach evaluate diverse thinkers from around the world to help students respond to religious strife in multicultural democracies. From 2024-26, I am the Deputy Head of School Teaching and Learning in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. My work contributes towards SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Manchester - England
- Master of Arts, University of Manchester - England
Keywords
- Academic Responses to Religious Diversity
- Deliberative Democracy
- Ethical Technology
- Extended Mind Theory
- Hermeneutics
- Metaphysics
- Methodology in the Study of Religion
- Political and Social Theory
- Print/Codex Information Technology
- Scientific Studies of Religion
- Secularisation Theory
- Situated Religious Cognition
- Tolerance and Antibigotry Studies
Languages
- Greek (Working)
- German (Working)
- Hebrew (Working)
Fields of Research
Code | Description | Percentage |
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500306 | Ethical theory | 20 |
500316 | Philosophy of religion | 40 |
500321 | Social and political philosophy | 20 |
500207 | History of ideas | 20 |
Professional Experience
Academic appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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1/1/2015 - | Senior Lecturer | School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences Australia |
1/8/2010 - 31/12/2014 | Lecturer | School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences Australia |
1/8/2008 - 1/8/2010 | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow | The University of Manchester School of Arts, Histories and Cultures United Kingdom |
Teaching
Code | Course | Role | Duration |
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PHIL1042 |
Virtual Religion The University of Newcastle - School of Humanities, Creative Industries, and Social Sciences In several popular films, streamed media and video games philosophical and religious themes such as sacrifice, forgiveness, redemption and apocalypse have been explored with great care and depth. So too, new virtual reality technologies are being employed to evoke religious experiences of the sacred and transcendent. This course will explore a sampling of virtual religious experiences in order to help students begin to interpret their visual styles, narrative constructions, technological interactions, historical contexts and salient themes. |
Course Convenor | 22/7/2024 - 1/11/2024 |
PHIL1040 |
World Religions The University of Newcastle - School of Humanities, Creative Industries, and Social Sciences This course provides an introduction to the principal features of the world's major religions through reference to key events, characters, beliefs and related phenomena. With regard to each tradition, there will be a focus on both historical and contemporary events relevant to the understanding of religion today. Thinkers discussed may include Philo of Alexandria, Origen of Caesarea Maritima, Shankara, Dogen Zenji [Kigen], Muhammad Rumi, Julian of Norwich, Theodor Herzl, Mohandas Gandhi, and Vine Deloria Jr. |
Course Convenor | 19/2/2024 - 31/5/2024 |
PHIL2030 |
Philosophy of Religion The University of Newcastle - School of Humanities, Creative Industries, and Social Sciences The course examines a number of issues in philosophy of religion which came to the fore in the ancient, medieval, early modern, enlightenment, and later periods. Topics to be discussed may include proofs for the existence of God, various conceptions of transcendence, the nature of the self, the concept of religion, and the relation between religious and scientific forms of inquiry. Thinkers to be considered may include Aurelius Augustine, Avicenna, Moses Maimonides, Anselm, Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Soren Kierkegaard, Martin Buber, Simone Weil and Jacques Derrida. |
Course Convenor | 19/2/2024 - 31/5/2024 |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (6 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
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2024 | Stanley T, Understanding Religion through the Eyes of Others: Case Studies of Key Thinkers, Routledge Press, London (2024) | ||||
2022 | Stanley T, Printing Religion after the Enlightenment, Lexington Books | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham (2022) [A1] | Nova | |||
2022 |
Stanley T, Religion after Deliberative Democracy, Routledge Press, London (2022) [A1]
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Nova | |||
2017 | Stanley TW, Writing Faith, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 154 (2017) [A1] | Nova | |||
2015 | Stanley TW, Religion after secularization in Australia, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 233 (2015) [A3] | ||||
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Chapter (5 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
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2024 | Stanley T, 'The Far Side of Religion', Religion and Senses of Humour, Equinox Press, Sheffield (2024) | ||||
2024 | Stanley T, 'Religion, Science, and Popular Beliefs', A Cultural History of Historiography in the Modern Age, 1920-Present, Bloomsbury Press, New York (2024) | ||||
2021 | Stanley T, 'Urban Surveillance: The Hidden Costs of Disneyland', The Many Faces of the City: Exploring the Metropolis, Common Ground, Champaigne (2021) | ||||
2015 | Stanley TW, 'Utopia and the Public Sphere', Religion after Secularization in Australia, Palgrave MacMillan, New York 191-210 (2015) [B1] | Nova | |||
2015 |
Stanley TW, 'Introduction', Religion after Secularization in Australia, Palgrave MacMillan, New York vii-xiv (2015) [B2]
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Journal article (22 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | |||||
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2023 |
Stanley T, 'Barth's Repetition', Modern Theology, 39 (2023) [C1]
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2021 |
Stanley T, 'Applying Arendt's Vita Activa to Religion', POLITICS RELIGION & IDEOLOGY, 22 1-16 (2021) [C1]
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Nova | ||||||
2021 |
Stanley T, 'Religious Print in Settler Australia and Oceania', Religions, 12 1-14 (2021) [C1]
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Nova | ||||||
2021 |
Stanley T, 'Religious Print in Settler Australia and Oceania', RELIGIONS, 12 (2021) [C1]
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2020 |
Stanley T, 'Religious Interactions in Deliberative Democratic Systems Theory', Religions, 11 1-16 (2020) [C1]
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Nova | ||||||
2019 |
Stanley TW, 'On Unity, Liberty and Charity', Political Theology, 20 103-111 (2019) [C1]
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Nova | ||||||
2019 |
Stanley TW, 'The Pragmatist Question of Sovereignty', Political Theology, 20 139-156 (2019) [C1]
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2016 |
Stanley TW, 'Faithful Codex: A Theological Account of Early Christian Books', Heythrop Journal: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy and Theology, 57 9-28 (2016) [C1]
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2016 |
Stanley TW, 'Bonhoeffer's Anti-Judaism', Political Theology, 17 297-305 (2016) [C1]
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2015 |
Stanley TW, 'The Early Codex Book: Recovering its Cosmopolitan Consequences', Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches, 23 369-398 (2015) [C1]
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2013 | Stanley TW, 'A Serious Man', The Bible and Critical Theory, 9 27-37 (2013) [C1] | |||||||
2012 |
Stanley TW, 'Barth after Kant?', Modern Theology, 28 423-445 (2012) [C1]
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Nova | ||||||
2006 |
Stanley T, 'From Habermas to Barth and back again', JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE, 48 101-126 (2006) [C1]
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Other (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2019 | Pihlström S, Kahn J, Farneth M, Stanley T, 'Special Issue: Pragmatism and Political Theology', Special Issue: Pragmatism and Political Theology ( issue.2 pp.103-175): Taylor & Francis (2019) |
Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 6 |
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Total funding | $137,500 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20231 grants / $6,000
Understanding Religion through the Eyes of Others$6,000
Funding body: Australian Research Theology Foundation
Funding body | Australian Research Theology Foundation |
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Project Team | TIMOTHY STANLEY |
Scheme | Australian Research Theology Foundation |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2023 |
Funding Finish | 2023 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | C3200 – Aust Not-for Profit |
Category | 3200 |
UON | N |
20181 grants / $20,000
Religious Print after the Enlightenment$20,000
Funding body: Library Council of NSW
Funding body | Library Council of NSW |
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Project Team | Doctor Timothy Stanley |
Scheme | Australian Religious History Fellowship |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2018 |
Funding Finish | 2019 |
GNo | G1800604 |
Type Of Funding | C3200 – Aust Not-for Profit |
Category | 3200 |
UON | Y |
20131 grants / $1,500
The American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, USA 23-26 November 2013$1,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Doctor Timothy Stanley |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2013 |
Funding Finish | 2013 |
GNo | G1300771 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20121 grants / $100,000
Religion in Political Life Research Program$100,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Timothy Stanley |
Scheme | Round 3 Research Program Funding |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2012 |
Funding Finish | 2013 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20111 grants / $5,000
Stanley - New Staff Grant 2011$5,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Doctor Timothy Stanley |
Scheme | FEDUA New Staff Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2011 |
Funding Finish | 2011 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20101 grants / $5,000
Stanley - New Staff Grant 2010$5,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Timothy Stanley |
Scheme | New Staff Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2010 |
Funding Finish | 2011 |
GNo | G1001043 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Current Supervision
Commenced | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2024 | Masters | Fortuna Favours the Bold: Religion and Legitimacy in the Flavian Dynasty (69-96CE) | M Philosophy (Classics), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | Free Will After Extended Mind Theory | PhD (Philosophy), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2019 | PhD | On the Russian Origins of Lev Shestov's Critique of Reason | PhD (Philosophy), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2017 | PhD | Table Top Gaming using Social Existential Theory | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2017 | Honours | Mad Max: Fury Hope | Philosophy & Religious Studies, College of Human and Social Futures, University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2017 | Honours | Buddhist and Lacanian Desire | Philosophy & Religious Studies, College of Human and Social Futures, University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2016 | Honours | Origen's Midrash Pesher | Philosophy & Religious Studies, College of Human and Social Futures, University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2013 | Honours | Kant in Rawls | Philosophy & Religious Studies, College of Human and Social Futures, University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2012 | Honours | Law and Ethics in Bonhoeffer | Philosophy & Religious Studies, College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2012 | PhD | An Investigation of Contrasting Approaches to Worship within Australian Baptist Churches to Explore the Role of Apollonian and Dionysian Concepts of Art Play in Understanding the Differences. A Case Study Approach | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
News
News • 30 Oct 2017
Historians awarded State Library fellowships
UON researchers Dr Julie McIntyre and Dr Tim Stanley have each been awarded a prestigious 2018 NSW State Library Fellowship.
Dr Timothy Stanley
Position
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
Philosophy
Contact Details
timothy.stanley@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4921 7927 |
Link | Personal webpage |
Office
Room | SR169 |
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Building | Social Sciences Building (SR) |
Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |