Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by publication year
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The Bible as a ‘pretty good political handbook’: an examination of the way that George W Bush’s evangelical faith has shaped his political agenda
Published 2004-01-01Open 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 -
Grounding the Angels: An Attempt to Harmonise Science and Spiritism in the Celestial Conferences of John Dee
Published 2006-01-01The retrospective catechisation of largely bygone beliefs is a naturally difficult assignment. An even more slavish task attends those philosophies which are not merely antiquated but which belonged, during their time of ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Faith in the Market: Religion, Secularisation, and Economics
Published 2012-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
To Believe In Love: The Religious Significance of the Romantic Love Myth in Western Modernity
Published 2012-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
An Investigation of Affective Liminal Experience as found in Rafael Bonachela’s most recent works for the Sydney Dance Company
Published 2016-05-10Open AccessThesis, Honours