Studies in Religion: Recent submissions
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Messianic Ideas: Historical Sources, and some Contemporary Expectations of Fulfilment
Published 2004-01-01The aim of this work is to provide basic historical insights into the origins of the messianic myth and its future developments within various world religions (see our Table of contents). Issues of millenarian ideas in ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Spiritual Tourism: Religion and Spirituality in Contemporary Travel
Published 2004-01-01Tourism and pilgrimage have been said to be closely related1. However, the relationship between tourists and the religions and religious contexts they visit has been neglected. Why tourists travel to places of religious ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Men of Faith: Stravinsky, Maritain and the Ideal Christian Artifex
Published 2005-01-01In this paper I explore the relationship and mutual influences between Stravinsky and Maritain. Despite the connections between these two men, and the prominence which Stravinsky at least still holds, scholars have neglected ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Rethinking Plato’s Theory of Art: Aesthetics and the Timaeus
Published 2003-01-01The Timaeus presents a fascinating account of the cosmos. It includes a creation myth that introduces the figure known as the Demiurge who, despite the fact that he is the cause of the sensible world, is reverently attributed ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
An Examination of the Ideologies Underlying Nineteenth Century Scholarly Researches into the Viking Age
Published 1984-01-01This thesis concerns the (more or less) systematic rehabilitation of the Viking Period, which was undertaken by a collection of poets and philologists, scholars and amateurs, from the latter half of the eighteenth century ...Open AccessThesis, Honours