B.D. (Hons.) (London), M.A. (Lancaster), Ph.D. (Adelaide), F.A.H.A.

Professor of Studies in Religion.

Office: Forgan Smith 504
Phone: (+61 7) 3346 7412

Email: p.almond@uq.edu.au

Teaching
History of Western Religious Thought

Current research projects
Reading Genesis in Early modern England.
The Witches of Warboys: A micro-historical study

Selected recent publications
"The Witches of Warboys:  A Bibliographical Note," in Notes and Queries 52 (2005), pp.192-3.
"Western Images of Islam, 1700-1900", Australian Journal of Politics and History 49(2003), pp.412-24.
"Modern Imaginings of Islam", St Mark's Review 192(2003), pp.24-9.
Demonic possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England: Contemporary Texts in Cultural Context (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004).
"Adam and Eve in Seventeenth Century Thought" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
"Druids, Patriarchs, and the Primordial Religion," The Journal of Contemporary Religion 15(2000), 379-94.
"Fundamentalism, Christianity, and Religion," The 2001 Sir Robert Madgwick Lecture, Armidale: The University of New England press, 2002.
See Full List of Publications.