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
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
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
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

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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Book (6 outputs)

Year

Citation

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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]

2022

Stanley T, Religion after Deliberative Democracy, Routledge Press, London (2022) [A1]

Citations	Scopus - 1

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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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]

2015

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

Citations	Scopus - 19

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Journal article (22 outputs)

Year

Citation

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2023

Stanley T, 'Barth's Repetition', Modern Theology, 39 (2023) [C1]

DOI	10.1111/moth.12845

2021

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

DOI	10.1080/21567689.2021.1877670

2021

Stanley T, 'Religious Print in Settler Australia and Oceania', Religions, 12 1-14 (2021) [C1]

DOI	10.3390/rel12121048

2021

Stanley T, 'Religious Print in Settler Australia and Oceania', RELIGIONS, 12 (2021) [C1]

DOI	10.3390/rel12121048

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 - 3

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 - 2Web 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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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	6
Total funding	$137,500

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20231 grants / $6,000

Understanding Religion through the Eyes of Others$6,000

This funding supports a textbook study of religion through the eyes of others. It draws students into perennial debates that evoke intersubjective habits of mind capable of engaging today’s diverse societies.

Funding body: Australian Research Theology Foundation

Funding body	Australian Research Theology Foundation
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

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

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
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
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

Current4

Current Supervision

Commenced	Level of Study	Research Title	Program	Supervisor Type
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
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

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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.