Peter Donovan
Biographic Data
| ID | 285944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Donovan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Donovan |
| SIGNATURE | DONOVAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3374-0753 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Toilet Paper, Minced Meat and Diabetes Medicines
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the management of non-communicable diseases in health systems around the world. This study aimed to understand the impact of COVID-19 on diabetes medicines dispensed in Australia. Publicly available data from Australia's government subsidised medicines program (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme), detailing prescriptions by month dispensed to patients, drug item code and patient category, was obtained from January 2…
Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian, and Kidarite coins
Music as an Aid to Philosophizing about Religion
Music and religion have long been experienced together, yet music’s significance for implicit religion awaits thoroughgoing study. This paper tackles a related task: using music as an example to help develop a philosophical approach to religion as a whole, which is broad and flexible enough to do justice to contemporary religious studies, including the study of implicit religion and spirituality. D.Z. Phillips’s (Wittgenstein-influenced) “contemp…
Making Moonta
In the second half of the nineteenth century, South Australia's Moonta was the centre of a major copper mining industry. Many hundreds of Cornish miners and their families settled there, making the district arguably 'the largest Cornish community beyond Land's End'. As this paper seeks to demonstrate, although Moonta had much in common with other Cornish settlements, throughout the world, it sought early on to distinguish itself as 'Australia's L…
The Intolerance of Religious Pluralism
The pluralistic approach to religions has come in for some serious criticism in recent writings. I shall consider two examples in particular. The first is the book Christian Uniqueness Reconsidered. The Myth of a Pluralistic Theology of Religions , edited by Gavin D'Costa. This is a collection of essays offered in response to The Myth of Christian Uniqueness , edited by John Hick and Paul Knitter. The second example is an essay by Paul Morris, ‘J…
Neutrality in Religious Studies
‘Open-minded’, ‘detached’, ‘objective’, ‘disinterested’, ‘impartial’, ‘non-partisan’ and ‘independent’ are terms typically used when Religious Studies seeks to present itself as an academic discipline. Phrases like ‘methodological agnosticism’, ‘suspension of judgement’, and ‘procedural neutrality’ are also found, in attempts to formulate an appropriate methodology. Seldom are those terms and phrases precisely defined, or the differences between …
Do Different Religions Share Moral Common Ground
Do followers of different religions share common ground at the level of their morality, despite their disagreements over doctrine and metaphysical beliefs? A typical statement of this view was made recently by the Dalai Lama
A Land Full of Possibilities
INTRODUCTIONWhen I commenced work on this history in 1970, the Northern Territory was largely ignored by people outside its bounds, except perhaps for the anthropologists. Australians generally were as ill-informed about the Territory as people overseas are of Australia: it was good place for holiday, but not place to be taken seriously. During the last decade, the situation has changed dramatically, not least because of the attention focused on …
Interpreting Religious Experience
Chinese Communist Materials at the Bureau of Investigation Archives, Taiwan
During the long years of civil strife in China the Nationalist authorities amassed extensive materials on their Communist adversaries. Now stored in government institutions on Taiwan, these materials are an excellent source for the study of the Chinese Communist movement. Among them is the Bureau of Investigation Collection (BIC), which holds over 300,000 volumes of primary documents on the Chinese Communist movement.The purpose of Chinese Commun…
Australia and the Great London Dock Strike
A Land Full of Possibilities
INTRODUCTIONWhen I commenced work on this history in 1970, the Northern Territory was largely ignored by people outside its bounds, except perhaps for the anthropologists. Australians generally were as ill-informed about the Territory as people overseas are of Australia: it was good place for holiday, but not place to be taken seriously. During the last decade, the situation has changed dramatically, not least because of the attention focused on …
Australia and the Great London Dock Strike
Australia and the Great London Dock Strike
Chinese Communist Materials at the Bureau of Investigation Archives, Taiwan
During the long years of civil strife in China the Nationalist authorities amassed extensive materials on their Communist adversaries. Now stored in government institutions on Taiwan, these materials are an excellent source for the study of the Chinese Communist movement. Among them is the Bureau of Investigation Collection (BIC), which holds over 300,000 volumes of primary documents on the Chinese Communist movement.The purpose of Chinese Commun…
Interpreting Religious Experience
A Land Full of Possibilities
INTRODUCTIONWhen I commenced work on this history in 1970, the Northern Territory was largely ignored by people outside its bounds, except perhaps for the anthropologists. Australians generally were as ill-informed about the Territory as people overseas are of Australia: it was good place for holiday, but not place to be taken seriously. During the last decade, the situation has changed dramatically, not least because of the attention focused on …
Do Different Religions Share Moral Common Ground
Do followers of different religions share common ground at the level of their morality, despite their disagreements over doctrine and metaphysical beliefs? A typical statement of this view was made recently by the Dalai Lama
Neutrality in Religious Studies
‘Open-minded’, ‘detached’, ‘objective’, ‘disinterested’, ‘impartial’, ‘non-partisan’ and ‘independent’ are terms typically used when Religious Studies seeks to present itself as an academic discipline. Phrases like ‘methodological agnosticism’, ‘suspension of judgement’, and ‘procedural neutrality’ are also found, in attempts to formulate an appropriate methodology. Seldom are those terms and phrases precisely defined, or the differences between …
The Intolerance of Religious Pluralism
The pluralistic approach to religions has come in for some serious criticism in recent writings. I shall consider two examples in particular. The first is the book Christian Uniqueness Reconsidered. The Myth of a Pluralistic Theology of Religions , edited by Gavin D'Costa. This is a collection of essays offered in response to The Myth of Christian Uniqueness , edited by John Hick and Paul Knitter. The second example is an essay by Paul Morris, ‘J…
Making Moonta
In the second half of the nineteenth century, South Australia's Moonta was the centre of a major copper mining industry. Many hundreds of Cornish miners and their families settled there, making the district arguably 'the largest Cornish community beyond Land's End'. As this paper seeks to demonstrate, although Moonta had much in common with other Cornish settlements, throughout the world, it sought early on to distinguish itself as 'Australia's L…
Music as an Aid to Philosophizing about Religion
Music and religion have long been experienced together, yet music’s significance for implicit religion awaits thoroughgoing study. This paper tackles a related task: using music as an example to help develop a philosophical approach to religion as a whole, which is broad and flexible enough to do justice to contemporary religious studies, including the study of implicit religion and spirituality. D.Z. Phillips’s (Wittgenstein-influenced) “contemp…
Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian, and Kidarite coins
Toilet Paper, Minced Meat and Diabetes Medicines
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the management of non-communicable diseases in health systems around the world. This study aimed to understand the impact of COVID-19 on diabetes medicines dispensed in Australia. Publicly available data from Australia's government subsidised medicines program (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme), detailing prescriptions by month dispensed to patients, drug item code and patient category, was obtained from January 2…
History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (3 works) · Religious Education and Schools (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works)