ISR Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Bernard Doherty joined ISR as a post-doctoral fellow in February of 2012. He is a graduate of Macquarie University, Sydney Australia, where his research focused on religion in the Greco-Roman world, with an emphasis on early Christianity. His dissertation focused on the social history of the Montanist movement, a small early Christian sect who begun in second century Asia Minor, and how sociological methods might help to augment and correct previous historical hypotheses regarding this movement.
His current work at the ISR involves continuing research into the social dynamics of early Christianity and how contemporary theory of NRMs and minority religious movements can serve a useful heuristic tool in this research. In addition to this Bernard is interested in the study of NRMs in Australia and how this compares with that in Europe and the United States, focusing in particular on legal and media issues.
Publications [available online]:
Is there room for Scientology amid Australia’s Religious Diversity, ABC Religion & Ethics, 20th of March 2012.
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/03/20/3459702.htm
Book Review: Stem Cells: Science, Medicine, Law and Ethics
Norman M. Ford & Michael Herbert. St Pauls Publications, 2003.
isbn 1 876 29574 0, rrp $19.95
http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=698
Classicum
Volume 35 Issue 2 (Oct 2009)
Prophets and Gravestones: An Imaginative History of Montanists and Other Early Christians [Book Review]
Doherty, Bernard (Reviewed by)1
Abstract: Review(s) of: Prophets and Gravestones: An Imaginative History of Montanists and Other Early Christians, by William Tabbernee, Hendrickson, Peabody MA, 2009.
