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Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry
Established in 2014 to advance the University's strategic goal of making ACU world-leading institutions for studies in religion, philosophy, and history, IRCI comprises three collaborative and interdisciplinary research programs: Biblical and Early Christian Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Religion and Theology.
Our global team of scholars are experts in the fields of religion, theology, history, and literature.
You are warmly invited to join us for online sessions to hear more about our PhD and MPhil programs. The Virtual Open Day includes the chance to hear from members of our research community across each of the institute’s programs, as well as opportunities for individual appointments with researchers. Please Click Here for more information on the Virtual Open Day Sessions and Individual Appointments.
We are now accepting applications from prospective domestic and international candidates for study commencing in Research Term C 2022. Applications close 11.59pm 24 April 2022 AEST. For further information, please click on the link below.
A major focus of research in this program is the extent to which different strands of early Christianity aimed to define themselves in relation to Jewish and Greco-Roman religious, philosophical, rhetorical, social, and cultural heritages.
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The purpose of this program is to understand the origins of the modern world and to reframe the way it is understood through dynamic reinterpretations of the medieval and early modern past.
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The IRCI’s Religion and Theology program supports constructive work in the study of religion that incorporates a wide range of methodologies.
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ACU’s Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions approaches emotions studies in an interdisciplinary mode from the perspectives of religion, philosophy, history, health humanities and literature from antiquity to today.
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Due to COVID-19 the Rome seminars originally scheduled for 2020 will be rescheduled once international travel bans are lifted.
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Fitzroy, VIC, 3065.