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Group for Religious and Intellectual Traditions

School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle NSW

GRIT is a research group based in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle. The collaborative work of this group focuses on the cultural and historical study of religion and other intellectual traditions drawing on interdisciplinary and disciplinary approaches from anthropology, classics, history, philosophy, religious studies, sociology and theology. The group provides an informal forum for the exchange of ideas relating to the influence of religion, ethics, reason and philosophy in historical and contemporary contexts in Europe, Australia and the Asia-Pacific regions. The comparative and cross-disciplinary study of religion is an area of growing international and national significance. GRIT undertakes research of national importance which for the understanding of religious and intellectual traditions in Australia, providing cutting edge interpretations of the changing religious cultures of the today’s world and the worlds of the past.