
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. As a humanities researcher my 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 |
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500316 | Philosophy of religion | 50 |
500207 | History of ideas | 50 |
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
Title | Organisation / Department |
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Senior Lecturer | University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Australia |
Senior Lecturer | University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Australia |
Academic appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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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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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 |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (3 outputs)
Chapter (4 outputs)
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2021 | Stanley T, 'Urban Surveillance: The Hidden Costs of Disneyland', The Many Faces of the City: Exploring the Metropolis, Common Ground, Champaigne (2021) | ||||
2021 | Stanley T, 'Religious Print in Settler Australia', The Spirit of the Antipodes: Religion and the Study of Religion in Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand, ATF Press, Adelaide (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]
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Journal article (19 outputs)
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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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2020 |
Stanley T, 'Religious Interactions in Deliberative Democratic Systems Theory', Religions, 11 1-16 (2020) [C1]
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2019 |
Stanley TW, 'On Unity, Liberty and Charity', Political Theology, 20 103-111 (2019) [C1]
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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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2006 |
Stanley T, 'From Habermas to Barth and back again', JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE, 48 101-126 (2006) [C1]
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Conference (13 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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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) | ||
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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 | 5 |
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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 |
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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 | C3112 - Aust Not for profit |
Category | 3112 |
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
New Staff Grant$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 | 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
Completed6
Current5
Current Supervision
Commenced | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2020 | Masters | Speaking for God: The Individual Freedoms of the Female Voice Graced by the Divine | 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 |
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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 |
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.
Dr Timothy Stanley
Position
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
Studies of Religion
Contact Details
timothy.stanley@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4921 7927 |
Links |
Personal webpage Research and Innovation Cluster |
Office
Room | CT229 |
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Building | CT Building |
Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |