Professor Iain Gardner
FAHA
Professor of Studies in Religion
A20 - John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney
Telephone | +61 2 9351 4484 |
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Biographical details
Professor Iain Gardner was trained in early Christian literature and the history of religions at the University of Manchester, undertaking research work on ancient manuscripts in Berlin and Vienna, and had extensive experience teaching in both Britain and Western Australia before coming to the University of Sydney. He works on a number of major international research projects in areas as diverse as Egypt and south China, and has edited many original manuscripts in ancient languages such as Coptic from collections around the world.
He comments: 'Whilst I am fascinated by all areas of the history of religions, my research interests are particularly in the world of late antiquity, in the many spiritual practices and religions of the ancient world, and especially those alternative forms of Christianity represented by apocryphal and gnostic literature that often flourished in places like the monasteries of the Egyptian desert or spread along the trade-routes of Asia and Africa.'
Research interests
- Early Christianity and ancient Christianity in Africa and Asia
- Gnostic and Coptic Studies
- Papyrology
- Manichaeism
- Magic in Late Antiquity
Current research students
Project title | Research student |
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The religious experience of perpetual gaming | Benn BANASIK |
Animal Grief | Teya BROOKS PRIBAC |
�There Goes Marvell, The Cambridge Platonist!�: On Marvell and Religion | Morgan JACKSON |
Selected grants
2015
- Seth, God of Confusion: the archaeology of a cult centre in Egypt; Hope C, Bowen G, Gardner I; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2012
- The function of images in magical papyri and artefacts of ritual power from Late Antiquity.; Johnston J, Gardner I, Kindt J, Whitehouse H, Hunter E; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2009
- The digital restoration of the Dublin Kephalaia codex and its importance for the history of religion; Gardner I, Dilley P, BeDuhn J; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2005
- Mission and Inculturation: the Manichaean and Nestorian experience in China- a textual, iconographical and epigraphical investigation.; Lieu S, Gardner I; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2002
- Manichaean & Medieval Christian (Nestorian & Catholic) remains in Quanzhou (S.China) - an epigraphical,iconographical & historical investigation; Lieu S, Hunter E, Franzmann M, Eccleston L, Gardner I, Niu R, van Tongerloo A, Sims-Williams N; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2000
- An investigation of the processes of social and cultural change in the Christianisation of 4th century Egypt; Gardner I, Franzmann M; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Large Research Grants (LRG).
Selected publications
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Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings: Studies on the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Codex (Brill, 2015)
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A Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power (Brepols Publishers, 2014)
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Coptic Documentary Texts from Kellis, Volume 2: P. Kellis VII (Oxbow Books, 2014)
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Medieval Christian and Manichaean Remains from Quanzhou (Zayton) (Brepols Publishers, 2012)
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Kellis Literary Texts Volume 2 (Oxbow Books, 2007)
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From Palmyra to Zayton: Epigraphy and Iconography (Brepols Publishers, 2005)
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Manichaean Texts From The Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
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