Dr Timothy Stanley

Senior Lecturer

School of Humanities and Social Science (Studies of Religion)

Email:timothy.stanley@newcastle.edu.au
Phone:(02) 4921 7927

Career Summary

Biography

My work addresses philosophical and historical studies of the world's religions. The courses I teach feature in the university's Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education (Secondary) degrees. Current projects investigate: the history of religious books; religion in deliberative democratic theory; and, the critique of metaphysics. For 2019-21 I am cluster leader for Historical, Cultural and Critical Inquiry in the university's School of Humanities and Social Science.

Qualifications

PhD, University of Manchester - England
Master of Arts, University of Manchester - England

Keywords

History of Religious Ideas
Intellectual History
Philosophy of Religion

Languages

Greek (Working)
German (Working)
Hebrew (Working)

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
500316	Philosophy of religion	40
500321	Social and political philosophy	30
430314	History of religion	30

Professional Experience

Academic appointment

Dates	Title	Organisation / Department
1/1/2015 -	Senior Lecturer	School of Humanities and Social Science \| University of Newcastle Australia
1/8/2010 - 31/12/2014	Lecturer	School of Humanities and Social Science \| University of Newcastle 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
PHIL2030	Philosophy of Religion University of Newcastle - School of Humanities and Social Science The course examines a number of issues which came to the fore in the ancient, medieval, early modern and enlightenment periods such as proofs for the existence of God, the nature of religion, the relation of religion and scientific inquiry, and the sources of the concept of transcendence. Thinkers to be considered may include Aurelius Augustine, Avicenna, Moses Maimonides, Anselm, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche.	Course Convenor	22/2/2021 - 4/6/2021
PHIL1040	World Religions University of Newcastle - School of Humanities and Social Science 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, Origen, Rumi, Dogen, Julian of Norwich, Theodor Herzl, Mohandas Gandhi, and Vine Deloria Jr.	Course Convenor	22/2/2021 - 4/6/2021
PHIL2040	Suffering: Comparative Studies University of Newcastle - School of Humanities and Social Science The course investigates diverse reflections upon the nature of human and other forms of suffering. It develops comparative methodologies in the academic study of religion and philosophy in order to help students evaluate divergent viewpoints on the topic. Thinkers discussed may include Gottfried Leibniz, Al Ghazali, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Nagarjuna, Arthur Schopenhauer, René Girard, Simone Weil and Emmanuel Levinas.	Course Convenor	26/7/2021 - 5/11/2021

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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Book (4 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2022	Stanley T, Religion after Deliberative Democracy, Routledge Press, London (2022)
2017	Stanley TW, Writing Faith, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 154 (2017) [A1]
2015	Stanley TW, Religion after secularization in Australia, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 233 (2015) [A3]
2010	Stanley T, Protestant Metaphysics after Karl Barth and Martin Heidegger, SCM Press, London, United Kingdom, 288 (2010) [A1]
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Chapter (5 outputs)

Year

Citation

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2023

Stanley T, 'Religion, Science, and Popular Beliefs', A Cultural History of Historiography in the Modern Age, 1920-Present, Bloomsbury Press, New York (2023)

2022

Stanley T, 'The Far Side of Religion', Religion and Senses of Humour, Equinox Press, Sheffield (2022)

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]

2015

Stanley TW, 'Introduction', Religion after Secularization in Australia, Palgrave MacMillan, New York vii-xiv (2015) [B2]

Citations	Scopus - 12

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Journal article (19 outputs)

Year

Citation

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2021

Stanley T, 'Applying Arendt's Vita Activa to Religion', POLITICS RELIGION & IDEOLOGY, 22 1-16 (2021) [C1]

DOI	10.1080/21567689.2021.1877670

2020

Stanley T, 'Religious Interactions in Deliberative Democratic Systems Theory', Religions, 11 1-16 (2020) [C1]

DOI	10.3390/rel11040210

2019

Stanley TW, 'On Unity, Liberty and Charity', Political Theology, 20 103-111 (2019) [C1]

DOI	10.1080/1462317X.2019.1558712

2019

Stanley TW, 'The Pragmatist Question of Sovereignty', Political Theology, 20 139-156 (2019) [C1]

DOI	10.1080/1462317X.2018.1559006

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]

DOI	10.1111/heyj.12079

2016

Stanley TW, 'Bonhoeffer's Anti-Judaism', Political Theology, 17 297-305 (2016) [C1]

DOI	10.1080/10773525.2016.1187000
Citations	Scopus - 1

2015

Stanley TW, 'The Early Codex Book: Recovering its Cosmopolitan Consequences', Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches, 23 369-398 (2015) [C1]

DOI	10.1163/15685152-00233P04
Citations	Scopus - 1Web of Science - 2

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]

Citations	Scopus - 2Web of Science - 2

2010

Stanley T, 'Desire, Gift and Recognition: Christology and Postmodern Philosophy', Ars Disputandi, 10 128-131 (2010)

DOI	10.1080/15665399.2010.10820032

2009

Stanley T, 'Before Analogy: Recovering Barth's Ontological Development', New Blackfriars, 90 577-601 (2009) [C1]

DOI	10.1111/j.1741-2005.2009.01302.x

2008

Stanley T, 'Karl Barth and Jürgen Habermas: Transcendental Aporias of Global Civil Society', Political Theology, 9 477-502 (2008) [C1]

DOI	10.1558/poth.v9i4.477

2008

Stanley T, 'Speaking Credibly? Communicating Christian Particularism in Postmodern Contexts', International Review of Mission, 97 21-30 (2008) [C1]

2008

Stanley T, 'Returning Barth to Anselm', Modern Theology, 24 413-437 (2008) [C1]

DOI	10.1111/j.1468-0025.2008.00465.x

2007

Stanley T, 'Heidegger on Luther on Paul', Dialog: a journal of theology, 46 41-45 (2007) [C1]

DOI	10.1111/j.1540-6385.2007.00306.x

2006

Stanley T, 'From Habermas to Barth and back again', JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE, 48 101-126 (2006) [C1]

DOI	10.1093/jcs/48.1.101
Citations	Scopus - 1Web of Science - 1

2006

Stanley T, 'Urban Surveillance: The Hidden Costs of Disneyland', International Journal of the Humanities, 3 117-124 (2006) [C1]

2006

Stanley T, 'Punch-Drunk Masculinity', Journal of Men s Studies: a scholarly journal about men and masculinities, 14 235-242 (2006) [C1]

DOI	10.3149/jms.1402.235

2005

Stanley T, 'Redeeming the Icons', The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, 6 39-62 (2005) [C1]

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Conference (13 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2017	Stanley T, 'Supplementing Arendt', Boston, MA, USA (2017)
2013	Stanley TW, 'Suspending the Political: Scholem, Barth and Qutb', The American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, Baltimore, USA (2013) [E3]
2012	Stanley TW, 'What Is This Strange Technological Thing Called the Bible?', Bible and Critical Theory Seminar, Auckland, NZ (2012)
2010	Stanley TW, 'Canon after Codex', American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, Atlanta (2010) [E1]
2010	Stanley TW, 'Why Protestant Metaphysics Today?', Theology Research Seminar, St. Andrews, UK (2010) [E2]
2010	Stanley TW, 'The Return of the Scroll: From Codex to Google', Valuing Theological Education Conference, The University of Oxford (2010) [E2]
2009	Stanley TW, 'Seinsweise in Barth's Theology', Society for the Study of Theology, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2009) [E3]
2006	Stanley TW, 'Karl Barth and Jürgen Habermas: Christianity in Civil Society', American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, Washington DC (2006) [E1]
2006	Stanley TW, 'Heidegger's Hidden Theology', 16th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion, Tübingen, Germany (2006) [E1]
2006	Stanley TW, 'Barth's Prolegomena to Any Future Protestant Metaphysics which Can Possibly Pretend to Be a Science', Belief and Metaphysics Conference, The Centre of Philosophy and Theology in partnership with the Instituto de Filosofia Edith Stein de Granada, Granada, Spain (2006) [E1]
2006	Stanley TW, 'The Post-Ontological Paul?', Society of Biblical Literature Annual Conference, Washington DC (2006) [E1]
2005	Stanley TW, 'Urban Surveillance: From Concentration Camps to Disneyland', Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (2005) [E1]
2005	Stanley TW, 'Cyber-Space of Possibles', The Cyberspace 2005 Conference , Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (2005) [E1]
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Other (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
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)

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Grants and Funding

Summary

Number of grants	5
Total funding	$131,500

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20181 grants / $20,000

Religious Print after the Enlightenment$20,000

The project investigates how a new form of religious print came to be recognised in the Enlightenment era. It evaluates the State Library of NSW’s Richardson Collection of rare Bibles and early printed religious works.

Funding body: Library Council of NSW

Funding body	Library Council of NSW
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
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
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

New Staff Grant$5,000

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body	University of Newcastle
Project Team	Doctor Timothy Stanley
Scheme	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
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

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Research Supervision

Number of supervisions

Completed6

Current7

Current Supervision

Commenced	Level of Study	Research Title	Program	Supervisor Type
2021	PhD	The Virtue of Sacrifice in Germanic Pagan Societies	PhD (Classics), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle	Co-Supervisor
2021	PhD	'Mary, Our Mother: Marian Devotion in the Development of Malta's Nationalism'	PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle	Co-Supervisor
2020	Masters	Athena's Gaze: The Crime and Punishment of Sexual Violence	M Philosophy (Classics), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle	Co-Supervisor
2020	Masters	Playing with Fire: Interpretations of Fire in Pre-Christian, European Religious and Poetic Texts	M Philosophy (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle	Co-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
2019	PhD	The Necromancers: Interpretations of modern spiritualism as magic, occultism, nercromancy and witchcraft.	PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle	Co-Supervisor
2017	PhD	Authenticity After Jean-Paul Sartre and Gabriel Marcel	PhD (Philosophy), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle	Principal Supervisor

Past Supervision

Year	Level of Study	Research Title	Program	Supervisor Type
2017	Honours	Mad Max: Fury Hope	Philosophy & Religious Studies, School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle	Sole Supervisor
2017	Honours	Buddhist and Lacanian Desire	Philosophy & Religious Studies, School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle	Sole Supervisor
2016	Honours	Origen's Midrash Pesher	Philosophy & Religious Studies, School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle	Sole Supervisor
2013	Honours	Kant in Rawls	Philosophy & Religious Studies, School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle	Sole Supervisor
2012	Honours	Law and Ethics in Bonhoeffer	Philosophy & Religious Studies, School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The 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

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News

Historians awarded State Library fellowships

October 30, 2017

UON history researchers Dr Julie McIntyre and Dr Tim Stanley have each been awarded a prestigious 2018 NSW State Library Fellowship.