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Dr James Lancaster

Lecturer - Studies In Western Relig

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
j.lancaster@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 52099

Overview

Dr James A. T. Lancaster is an intellectual historian who received his PhD from the Warburg Institute, University of London. He is presently Lecturer in Studies in Western Religious Traditions in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, as well as the Editor (special issues) of Intellectual History Review. Previously, he was a UQ Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. As a member of the Editorial Board of the Oxford Francis Bacon edition, he has published widely on the philosophical and religious thought of Francis Bacon. His research and teaching interests and experience include the history of science and religion, the history of atheism and irreligion in the early modern period, and the history of the psychology of religion.

Qualifications

  • HBA, University of Toronto
  • Master of Arts, University of Toronto
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of London

Publications

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Grants

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Supervision

  • Fencing and Fightbooks: their Social and Cultural contexts in Early Modern England

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Constructing Godly Queenship in Post-Reformation Europe

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Songs of Comfort in a Valley of Tears: Seelsorge, Song, and the Thirty Years' War.

    Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Book

  • Evidence in the age of the new sciences

    James A. T. Lancaster and Richard Raiswell eds. (2018). Evidence in the age of the new sciences. Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-91869-3

  • Francis Bacon on Motion and Power

    Guido Giglioni, James A.T. Lancaster, Sorana Corneanu and Dana Jalobeanu eds. (2016). Francis Bacon on Motion and Power. Dordrecht: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-27641-0

Book Chapter

  • Evidence before science

    Lancaster, James A. T. (2018). Evidence before science. Evidence in the Age of the New Sciences. (pp. 1-29) edited by James A. T. Lancaster and Richard Raiswell. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-91869-3_1

  • Francis Bacon on the moral and political character of the universe

    Lancaster, James A. T. (2016). Francis Bacon on the moral and political character of the universe. Francis Bacon on motion and power. (pp. 231-248) edited by Guido Giglioni, James A.T. Lancaster, Sorana Corneanu and Dana Jalobeanu. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-27641-0_10

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PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Fencing and Fightbooks: their Social and Cultural contexts in Early Modern England

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Constructing Godly Queenship in Post-Reformation Europe

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Songs of Comfort in a Valley of Tears: Seelsorge, Song, and the Thirty Years' War.

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

This staff member is a UQ Expert for media in the following fields:

Science and Religion, Francis Bacon, History of Science, Psychology of Religion, Religious Belief, Atheism, Irreligion, no-religion

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