Publications for Carole Cusack
Publications for Carole Cusack
2016
Cusack, C. (2016). Archaeology and the 'World
Religions' Paradigm: The European Neolithic,
Religion, and Cultural Imperialism. In
Christopher R. Cotter and David G. Robertson
(Eds.), After World Religions: Reconstructing
Religious Studies, (pp. 153-167). Oxford and
New York: Routledge.
Cusack, C. (2016). Gender Roles, Gendered
Bodies, and Resisting Gendered Identities. In
Jason H. Prior and Carole M. Cusack (Eds.),
Religion, Sexuality, and Spirituality [4-volume
reprint series]. Oxford: Routledge.
Cusack, C. (2016). Invention in 'New New'
Religions. In James R. Lewis and Inga Bardsen
Tollefsen (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of New
Religious Movements, Volume II, (pp. 237-247).
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cusack, C. (2016). Methodology in the Study of
Religion, Sexuality and Spirituality. In Jason H.
Prior and Carole M. Cusack (Eds.), Religion,
Sexuality, and Spirituality [4-volume reprint
series], (pp. 12-18). Oxford: Routledge.
Prior, J., Cusack, C. (2016). Religion, Sexuality,
and Sexuality: An Introduction. In Jason H.
Prior and Carole M. Cusack (Eds.), Religion,
Sexuality, and Spirituality [4-volume reprint
series], (pp. 1-11). Oxford: Routledge.
Prior, J., Cusack, C. (2016). Religion, Sexuality,
and Spirituality [4-volume reprint series].
Oxford: Routledge.
Cusack, C., Farley, H. (2016). Religion, the
Occult, and the Paranormal [4-volume reprint
series]. Oxford: Routledge. <a
href="https://www.routledge.com/Religion-theOccult-and-the-Paranormal/Cusack-Farley/p/boo
k/9781138015098">[More Information]</a>
Cusack, C. (2016). Religion, the Occult, and the
Paranormal in Historical Contexts: Ancient,
Medieval, Modern. In Carole M. Cusack and
Helen Farley (Eds.), Religion, the Occult, and
the Paranormal [4-volume reprint series], (pp.
1-6). Oxford: Routledge.
Cusack, C., Farley, H. (2016). Religion, the
Occult, and the Paranormal: An Introduction. In
Carole M. Cusack and Helen Farley (Eds.),
Religion, the Occult, and the Paranormal
[4-volume reprint series], (pp. 1-10). Oxford:
Routledge.
Cusack, C. (2016). Religion, The Occult, and the
Paranormal: Method, Theory, and Definitions.
In Carole M. Cusack and Helen Farley (Eds.),
Religion, the Occult, and the Paranormal
[4-volume reprint series], (pp. 11-17). Oxford:
Routledge.
Sutcliffe, S., Cusack, C. (2016). The Problem of
Invented Religions. London and New York:
Routledge. <a
href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Problemof-Invented-Religions/Sutcliffe-Cusack/p/book/9
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2015
Buljan, K., Cusack, C. (2015). Anime, Religion
and Spirituality: Profane and Sacred Worlds in
Contemporary Japan. Sheffield, United
Kingdom: Equinox Publishing. <a
href="http://www.equinoxpub.com/home/animereligion-spirituality/">[More Information]</a>
Cusack, C. (2015). Apocalypse in Early UFO
and Alien-Based Religions: Christian and
Theosophical Themes. In Erik Tonning,
Matthew Feldman, David Addyman (Eds.),
Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse, (pp.
339-353). Leiden: Brill.
Cusack, C. (2015). Foreword. In David W. Kim
(Eds.), Religious Transformation in Modern
Asia: A Transnational Movement, (pp. xi-xiv).
Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
Cusack, C., Sutcliffe, S. (2015). G. I. Gurdjieff
and the Study of Religion/s. International
Journal for the Study of New Religions, 6(2),
109-115. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.v6i2.29039
">[More Information]</a>
Cusack, C. (2015). Intentional Communities in
the Gurdjieff Teaching. International Journal for
the Study of New Religions, 6(2), 159-178. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.v6i2.28875
">[More Information]</a>
Cusack, C. (2015). Lab Rats and Tissue Samples:
The Human in Contemporary Invented
Religions. In Kennet Granholm, Marcus
Moberg, Sofia Sjo (Eds.), Religion, Media, and
Social Change, (pp. 175-188). New York:
Routledge.
Cusack, C. (2015). Making Familiar the
Unfamiliar: Teaching RLST 2626 Witchcraft,
Paganism and the New Age at the University of
Sydney. Spotlight on Teaching: Religious Studies
News, January 2015, 30-34. <a
href="http://rsn.aarweb.org/spotlight-on/teaching
/new-alternative-religions/guest-editors-introduct
ion">[More Information]</a>
Cusack, C. (2015). The Messiah is a Salesman,
Yet Consumerism is a Con(spiracy): The Church
of the SubGenius, Work, and the Pursuit of Slack
as a Spiritual Ideal. Nova Religio: journal of
alternative and emergent religions, 19(2), 49-64.
<a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2015.19.2.49"
>[More Information]</a>
Publications for Carole Cusack
Cusack, C. (2015). Two Scottish Romanesque
Parish Churches: St Athernase, Leuchars and St
Cuthbert, Dalmeny. Journal of the Sydney
Society for Scottish History, 15, 97-122.
2014
Cusack, C. (2014). Gurdjieff and Katherine
Mansfield Redux: Alma de Groen's The Rivers
of China. Journal for the Academic Study of
Religion, 27(3), 325-345. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jasr.v27i3.325">
[More Information]</a>
Cusack, C. (2014). Individual Suicide and the
End of the World: Destruction and
Transformation in UFO and Alien-Based
Religions. In James R. Lewis, Carole M.
Cusack (Eds.), Sacred Suicide, (pp. 91-108).
Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing.
Cusack, C. (2014). Invented Religions. In
George D Chryssides, Benjamin E Zeller (Eds.),
The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious
Movements, (pp. 291-294). London: Bloomsbury
Academic.
Cusack, C. (2014). Medicine and Mythology:
Health and Healing in Indo-European Myths.
Mentalities: an interdisciplinary journal, 26(1),
1-11. <a
href="http://mentalitiesjournal.com/wp-content/u
ploads/2014/05/CUSACK-Medicine-and-Mythol
ogy-1.pdf">[More Information]</a>
Cusack, C., Norman, A. (2014), Religion,
Pilgrimage and Tourism. 4-volume reprint
series, Routledge.
Cusack, C. (2014). Representations of
Indigenous Australian Religions in New South
Wales (NSW) Higher School Certificate Studies
of Religion Textbooks. In Bengt-Ove
Andreassen, James R. Lewis (Eds.), Textbook
Gods: Genre, Text and Teaching Religious
Studies, (pp. 117-133). Sheffield, UK: Equinox
Publishing.
Lewis, J., Cusack, C. (2014). Sacred Suicide.
Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing.
<a
href="https://www.routledge.com/Sacred-Suicid
e/Cusack-Lewis/p/book/9781409450863">[More
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Cusack, C., Kirby, D. (2014), Sects, Cults and
New Religions. 4-volume reprint series,
Routledge.
Cusack, C. (2014). Special Issue: G. I. Gurdjieff.
Journal for the Academic Study of Religion,
27(3).
2013
Cusack, C. (2013). Enlightenment Concepts,
Medieval Contexts. In James L. Cox (Eds.),
Critical Reflections on Indigenous Religions,
(pp. 65-80). Farnham, UK: Ashgate.
Cusack, C. (2013). History, Authenticity, and
Tourism: Encountering the Medieval While
Walking Saint Cuthbert's Way. In Alex Norman
(Eds.), Journeys and Destinations: Studies in
Travel, Identity, and Meaning, (pp. 1-21).
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing.
Sutcliffe, S., Cusack, C. (2013). Introduction:
Making it (all?) up - 'invented religions' and the
study of 'religion'. Culture and Religion: an
international, interdisciplinary journal, 14(4),
353-361. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2013.
839952">[More Information]</a>
Cusack, C. (2013). Play, narrative and the
creation of religion: Extending the theoretical
base of 'invented religions'. Culture and
Religion: an international, interdisciplinary
journal, 14(4), 362-377. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2013.
838797">[More Information]</a>
Cusack, C. (2013). Religion-Making and
Art-Making: Identifying Convergences Between
Cognitive Evolutionary and Social
Constructionist Models of Human Evolution.
Literature and Aesthetics, 23(3), 97-110.
Cusack, C. (2013). Richard Wagner's 'Der Ring
des Nibelungen': Medieval, Pagan, Modern.
Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception,
3(2), 329-352. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/rsrr3-2-584">[
More Information]</a>
Cusack, C. (2013). Scotland's Sacred Tree: The
Fortingall Yew. Journal of the Sydney Society for
Scottish History, 14, 106-120.
Sutcliffe, S., Cusack, C. (2013). Special Issue:
Invented Religions. Culture and Religion: an
international, interdisciplinary journal, 14(4). <a
href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcar20/14/
4#.VaX1bEWKtxU">[More Information]</a>
Cusack, C. (2013). Special Issue: New
Scholarship on Contemporary Religion From
Australia and New Zealand. Alternative
Spirituality and Religion Review, 4(1). <a
href="http://www.pdcnet.org/collection-anonym
ous/browse?fp=asrr&fq=asrr%2FVolume%2F89
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Cusack, C. (2013). The Romance of Hereditary
Monarchs and Theocratic States: Ethiopia and
Emperor Haile Selassie I in Rastafarianism and
Tibet and the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin
Gyatso, in Western Buddhism. Alternative
Spirituality and Religion Review, 4(1), 122-146.
Publications for Carole Cusack
2012
Cusack, C. (2012). "And the Building Becomes
Man": Meaning and Aesthetics in Rudolf
Steiner's Goetheanum. In Carole Cusack and
Alex Norman (Eds.), Handbook of New
Religions and Cultural Production, (pp.
173-191). Leiden: Brill.
Cusack, C. (2012). Charmed Circle: Stonehenge,
Contemporary Paganism, and Alternative
Archaeology. Numen-International Review for
the History of Religions, 59(2-3), 138-155. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852712X630
752">[More Information]</a>
Cusack, C. (2012). Cognitive Narratology and
the Study of New Religions. Alternative
Spirituality and Religion Review, 3(2), 154-171.
the Chaos Paradigm and the Power of Parody.
International Journal for the Study of New
Religions, 2(1), 125-145. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.v2i1.125">[
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Cusack, C. (2011). New religions and the science
of archaeology: Mormons, the Goddess and
Atlantis. In Lewis, James R. and Hammer, Olav
(Eds.), Handbook of Religion and the Authority
of Science, (pp. 765-796). Leiden: Brill.
Cusack, C. (2011). Pagan Saxon Resistance to
Charlemagne's Mission: "Indigenous" Religion
and "World" Religion in the Early Middle Ages.
The Pomegranate: The International Journal of
Pagan Studies, 13(1), 33-51. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13i1.33"
>[More Information]</a>
Cusack, C., Norman, A. (2012). Handbook of
New Religions and Cultural Production. Leiden:
Brill.
Cusack, C. (2011). Religion and Celebrity.
Australian Religion Studies Review, 24(3).
Prior, J., Cusack, C. (2012). Identity and Ruins:
Personal Integration and Urban Disintegration
Understood Through a Touristic Lens. Literature
and Aesthetics, 22(1), 156-170.
Cusack, C. (2011). Some Recent Trends in the
Study of Religion and Youth. Journal of
Religious History, 35(3), 409-418. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9809.201
1.01078.x">[More Information]</a>
Cusack, C. (2012). Media Coverage of
Scientology in the United States. In Diane
Winston (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of
Religion and the American News Media, (pp.
303-315). New York: Oxford University Press.
Cusack, C. (2012). The Gods on Television:
Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan, Politics and
Popular Piety in Late Twentieth-century India.
In Adam Possamai (Eds.), Handbook of
Hyper-real Religions, (pp. 279-297). Leiden:
Brill.
Cusack, C. (2011). The Sacred Tree: Ancient and
Medieval Manifestations. Newcastle, UK:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Cusack, C. (2011). The Western Reception of
Buddhism: Celebrity and Popular Cultural Media
as Agents of Familiarisation. Australian Religion
Studies Review, 24(3), 297-316. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/arsr.v24i3.297">
[More Information]</a>
2010
Norman, A., Cusack, C. (2012). The religion in
Olympic tourism. Journal of Tourism and
Cultural Change, 10(2), 124-136. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2012.
683956">[More Information]</a>
Cusack, C., Hartney, C. (2010). Introduction. In
Carole M. Cusack, Christopher Hartney (Eds.),
Religion and Retributive Logic: Essays in
Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf, (pp.
1-14). Leiden: Brill.
2011
Cusack, C. (2010). Invented Religions:
Imagination, Fiction and Faith. Surrey, England
UK: Ashgate.
Cusack, C. (2011). 'Celticity' in Australian
alternative spiritualities. In Olivia Cosgrove,
Laurence Cox, Carmen Kuhling, Peter
Mulholland (Eds.), Irelands New Religious
Movements, (pp. 281-299). Newcastle upon
Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Cusack, C. (2011). An Enlightened Life in Text
and Image: G. I. Gurdjieff's Meetings With
Remarkable Men (1963) and Peter Brook's
'Meetings With Remarkable Men' (1979).
Literature and Aesthetics, 21(1), 72-97.
Cusack, C., Hartney, C. (2010). Religion and
Retributive Logic: Essays in Honour of Professor
Garry W. Trompf. Leiden: Brill.
Cusack, C. (2010). Religion as something
absolutely ordinary. Mentalities: an
interdisciplinary journal, 24(1), 1-7.
Cusack, C. (2011). Discontinuous Meditations on
the Phenomenology of Religion. Mentalities: an
interdisciplinary journal, 25(Nos 1-2), 1-7.
Cusack, C., Prior, J. (2010). Religion, Sexuality
and Retribution: Placing the 'Other' in Sydney.
In Carole M. Cusack, Christopher Hartney
(Eds.), Religion and Retributive Logic: Essays in
Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf, (pp.
347-368). Leiden: Brill.
Cusack, C. (2011). Discordian Magic: Paganism,
Prior, J., Cusack, C. (2010). Spiritual dimensions
Publications for Carole Cusack
of self-transformation in Sydney's gay
bathhouses. Journal of Homosexuality, 57(1),
71-97. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0091836090344
5327">[More Information]</a>
Cusack, C. (2010). Sport. In Hecht, Richard D.
and Biondo, Vincent F. (Eds.), Religion and
Everyday Life and Culture, (pp. 915-943). Santa
Barbara: Praeger Publishers.
Cusack, C. (2010). Sydney Society of Literature
and Aesthetics. In Oppy, Graham and Trakakis,
Nick (Eds.), A Companion to Philosophy in
Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 528-529).
Clayton, VIC: Monash University Press.
Cusack, C. (2010). The Burry Man Festival,
South Queensferry: warding off evil spirits,
connecting with nature and celebrating local
identity. Journal of the Sydney Society for
Scottish History, 13(October 2010), 37-53.
Cusack, C. (2010). The Church of All Worlds
and pagan ecotheology: uncertain boundaries and
unlimited possibilities. Diskus: the on-disk
journal of international religious studies, 11(1),
1-11.
2009
Cusack, C. (2009). Celebrity, the popular media
and Scientology: making familiar the unfamiliar.
In Lewis, James S (Eds.), Scientology, (pp.
389-409). New York, USA: Oxford University
Press.
Books.
Cusack, C. (2008). Foreword. In John R. C.
Martyn (Eds.), King Sisebut and the culture of
Visigothic Spain, with translations of the lives of
Saint Desiderius of Vienne and Saint Masona of
Mérida, (pp. i-ii). Lewiston, New York;
Queenston, Ontario; Lampeter, Wales: The
Edwin Mellen Press.
Prior, J., Cusack, C. (2008). Ritual, liminality
and transformation: secular spirituality in
Sydney's gay bathhouses. Australian
Geographer, 39(3), 271-281. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0004918080227
0473">[More Information]</a>
2007
Cusack, C. (2007). Konkokyo (Golden Light
Teachings) and Modernity: A Test of the
Faivre-Hanegraaf Six-Point Typology of
Western Esotericism. Australian Religion Studies
Review, 20(3), 317-333.
Cusack, C. (2007). The Goddess Eostre: Bede's
Text and Contemporary Pagan Tradition(s). The
Pomegranate: The International Journal of
Pagan Studies, 9(1), 22-40.
2005
Cusack, C. (2005). Religion in Australian
Society: a place for everything and everything
and its place. Modern Greek Studies (Australia
and New Zealand), 13, 28-45.
Cusack, C., Digance, J. (2009). Pastoral care and
September 11: Scientology's nontraditional
religious contribution. In Lewis, James S
(Eds.), Scientology, (pp. 435-437). New York,
USA: Oxford University Press.
Cusack, C., Di Lauro, F., Hartney, C. (2005).
The buddha of suburbia : proceedings of the
eighth Australian and International Religion,
Literature and the Arts Conference 2004.
Sydney: RLA Press.
Cusack, C. (2009). Science fiction as scripture:
Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a strange land
and the church of all worlds. Literature and
Aesthetics, 19(2), 72-91.
Cusack, C. (2005). The Future of Australian
Secularism: Religion, Civil Society and the
American Alliance. Australian Review of Public
Affairs, 10(October).
Cusack, C., Digance, J. (2009). The Melbourne
Cup: Australian identity and secular pilgrimage.
Sport in Society, 12(7), 876-889. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1743043090305
3109">[More Information]</a>
2004
Cusack, C. (2009). The return of the Goddess:
mythology, witchcraft and feminist spirituality.
In Murphy Pizza and James R. Lewis (Eds.),
Handbook of contemporary paganism, (pp.
335-362). Leiden: Brill.
2008
Cusack, C., Digance, J. (2008). "Shopping for a
self": pilgrimage, identity-formation, and retail
therapy. In Graham St John (Eds.), Victor
Turner and contemporary cultural performance,
(pp. 227-241). Oxford, New York: Berghahn
Cusack, C. (2004). Esotericism, Irony And
Paranoia In Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum'.
In Edward Fitzpatrick Crangle (Eds.),
Esotericism and the Control of Knowledge, (pp.
63-85). Sydney: Department of Studies in
Religion, University of Sydney.
2003
Cusack, C. (2003). Australian Paganism:
Remnant of the Past or Way of the Future?
Australian Review of Public Affairs, 22(August).
Cusack, C. (2003). I’m Hopeful, You’re Hopeful
(We Hope). Australian Review of Public Affairs,
13(March).
Cusack, C., Digance, J. (2003). Religious,
Spiritual, Secular: Some American Responses to
Publications for Carole Cusack
September 11. Australian Religion Studies
Review, 16(2), 153-171.
Cusack, C. (2003). The Virgin Mary at Coogee:
A Preliminary Investigation. Australian Religion
Studies Review, 16(1), 116-129.
Cusack, C. (2003). Tradition and Change:
Australian Churches and the Future. Australian
Review of Public Affairs, 5(May).
2002
Digance, J., Cusack, C. (2002). Glastonbury: A
Tourist Town for All Seasons. In Graham
M.S.Dann (Eds.), The Tourist as a Metaphor of
the Social World, (pp. 263-280). UK: CABI
Publishing.
2001
Cusack, C., Oldmeadow, P. (2001). The End of
Religions? Religion in an Age of Globalisation.
Australia: Department of Studies in Religion,
University of Sydney.
Cusack, C. (2001). The Essence of Buddhism:
How to Bring Spiritual Meaning into Everyday.
Australia: Lansdowne Publishing.
1999
Cusack, C., Oldmeadow, P. (1999). This
Immense Panorama: Studies in Honour of Eric J.
Sharpe. Sydney: The University of Sydney.
1998
Cusack, C. (1998). Conversion Among the
Germanic Peoples. London: Cassell.