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Major Publications:
Books
1. The Lancashire Witches: Persecution, Politics and Murder in Early Modern England (London:
I.B.Tauris) in press.
2. England’s First Demonologist: Reginald Scott and ‘The Discoverie of Witchcraft’ (London: I.B.
Tauris,) 2011.
3. Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
paperback edition) 2008.
4. Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, paperback
edition) 2008.
5. The Witches of Warboys: An extraordinary Story of Sorcery, Sadism, and Satanic Possession
(London: I.B.Tauris, 2008).
6. Demonic Possession & Exorcism in Early Modern England. (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2007, paperback edition).
7. The British Discovery of Buddhism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, paperback
edition).
8. Demonic Possession & Exorcism in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2004.
9. Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
10. Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
11. The British Discovery of Buddhism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
12. Heretic and Hero: Muhammad and the Victorians. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1989. Studies in
Oriental Religions Series, no.18.
13. Rudolf Otto: An Introduction to his Philosophical Theology. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1984. Studies in Religion Series.
14. Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine: An Investigation of the Study of Mysticism in World
Religions. Berlin: Mouton, 1982. Religion and Reason Series, no.26.
15. Ed. with P.G. Woolcock, Dissent in Paradise: Religious Education Controversies in South
Australia. Magill: Murray Park Sources in the History of South Australian Education, 1978.
Articles & Book Chapters
1.
“John Napier and the Mathematics of the ‘middle future’ Apocalypse,” Scottish Journal of
Theology 63(2009), pp.54-69.
2.
‘King James I and the Burning of Reginald Scot’s The Discoverie of Witchcraft: The Invention of
a Tradition,’ Notes and Queries 56(2009), pp.209-213.
3.
“John Mason and his Religion: An Enthusiastic Millenarian in late 17th Century England,” in
The Seventeenth Century 24(2009), 156-76.
4.
‘Thomas Brightman and the Origins of Philo-semitism: An Elizabethan Theologian and the
Restoration of the Jews to Israel’ in Reformation and Renaissance Review 9(2007), pp.3-25.
5.
“Adam, Pre-Adamites, and Extra-Terrestrial Beings in Early Modern Europe”, Journal of
Religious History 30 (2006), 163-74.
6.
“‘The Witches of Warboys’: A Bibliographical Note”, in Notes and Queries 52 (2005), 192-3.
7.
“Western Images of Islam”, 1700-1900, Australian Journal of Politics and History 49 (2003),
412-24.
8.
“Modern Imaginings of Islam”, St Mark’s Review 192(2003), pp.24-9. Reprinted in The
Sceptic 24 (2004), 6-10.
9.
“Fundamentalism, Christianity, and Religion”, The 2001 Sir Robert Madgwick Lecture,
Armidale: The University of New England, 2002. Broadcast on ABC Radio National,
Encounter, 7.4.02, http://www.abc.net.au/rn.relig/enc/stories/s520400.htm.
10.
“Druids, Patriarchs, and the Primordial Religion”, The Journal of Contemporary Religion 15
(2000), 379-94.
11.
“Religious Pluralism in the West”, Encounter: The Century Series, ABC Radio
National,1999, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/enc/stories/s28504.htm.
12.
“Changing Views of Heaven and Hell,” Asia Journal of Theology 13(1999), 159-71.
13.
“The Heathen in his Blindness’?” Cultural Dynamics 8 (1996), 137-145.
14.
“Rudolf Otto and Buddhism,” P. Masefield and D. Wiebe (eds.) Aspects of Religion: Essays
in Honour of Ninian Smart, New York: Peter Lang, 1994, 59-71.
15.
“El Occidente Medievale y el Budismo”. Revista de Estudios Budistas 7 (1994), 107-28.
Translation by Silvia De Alejandro of “The Medieval West and Buddhism”. Eastern Buddhist
19 (1986), 85-101.
16.
“Henry More and the Apocalypse”. Journal of the History of Ideas 54 (1993), 189-200.
17.
“The Contours of Hell in English Thought, 1660-1750”. Religion 22 (1992), 297-311.
18.
“The End of ‘Religious’ Pluralism?” N. Habel (ed.) Religion and Multiculturalism in Australia,
Adelaide: A.A.S.R., 1992, 47-55.
19.
“The Journey of the Soul in Seventeenth Century English Platonism”, History of European
Ideas 13 (1991), 775-91.
20.
“Towards an Understanding of the New Age”, St. Mark's Review 144 (1991), 2-5. Reprinted
in Evangelical Review of Theology 16 (1992), 205-10; in Australian Religious Studies
Review 6 (1993), 1-6; Murmurings, no.5 (1993), 5-12.
21.
“Mysticism & its Contexts: A Response to Steven Katz” in Sophia 27, (1988), 40-7.
Reprinted in R.K.C. Forman (ed.), The Problem of Pure Consciousness. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1990, 211-9.
22.
“The Buddha of Christendom: A Review of the Legend of Barlaam & Josaphat”. Religious
Studies 23 (1987), 391-406.
23.
“The Medieval West & Buddhism” Eastern Buddhist 19 (1986), 85-101.
24.
“Buddhism in the West: 300 BC - AD 400”. Journal of Religious History 14 (1987), 236-45.
25.
“The Buddha in the West: From Myth to History”. Religion 16 (1986), 305-22.
26.
“The Encounter between Buddhism & Christianity in Victorian England”. Asia Journal of
Theology 1 (1987), 79-89.
27.
“The Buddha in the West, 1800-1860”. Perspectives on Language & Text. E.W. Conrad &
E.G Newing (eds), Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1986, 381-92.
28.
“Buddhism & `the Oriental Mind’”. P. Bilimoria & P. Fenner (eds.), Religions & Comparative
Thought. Delhi: Sri Satguru, 1988, 293-315.
29.
“Wilfred Cantwell Smith as Theologian of Religions”. Harvard Theological Review 76 (1983),
335-44.
30.
“Rudolf Otto: Buddhism & Christianity, Compared & Contrasted”. Translated & edited with
introduction. Buddhist-Christian Studies 4 (1984), 87-101.
31.
“Rudolf Otto: The Context of His Thought”. Scottish Journal of Theology 36 (1983), 347-62.
32.
“Rudolf Otto: Life & Work”. Journal of Religious History 14 (1983), 305-21.
33.
”Rudolf Otto & the Kantian Tradition.” Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und
Religionsphilosophie 25 (1983), 52-67.
34.
“John Hick's Copernican Theology.” Theology 86 (1983), 36-41.
35.
“A Note on Theologizing about Religions.” The Journal of Theological Studies 32 (1981),
178-80.
36.
“T.M. & Education: A Critique.” The Forum of Education 39 (1980), 41-6. With B. Reay & M.
Bossley.
37.
“In Defence of a Mystical Ontology.” Religious Traditions 3 (1980), 50-1.
38.
“Mystical Experience, the One & the Many: Towards a New Theory.” Darshana International
20 (1980), 42-9.
39.
“W.T. Stace, Mysticism & Philosophy: A Critique.” The Journal of Religious Studies 7 (1979),
92-106.
40.
“On the Varieties of Mystical Experience.” Sophia 18 (1979), 1-9. Reprinted in V.C. Hayes
(ed.), Religious Experience in World Religions. Adelaide: AASR 1980, 103-11.
41.
“Karl Barth & Anthropocentric Theology.” Scottish Journal of Theology 31 (1978), 435-47.
42.
“Wittgenstein & Religion.” Sophia 16 (1977), 24-7.
43.
“Winch & Wittgenstein.” Religious Studies 12 (1976), 473-82.