Overview
Background
Dr Aaron Ghiloni is the author of Islam as Education: Pedagogies of Pilgrimage, Prophecy, and Jihad (2019) and John Dewey among the Theologians (2012). He is the editor of World Religions and their Missions (2015), a comparative religion textbook now in a second edition (2022). He is Associate Editor of the journal Religious Education.
Dr Ghiloni has research interests in Islam, Christianity, interreligious studies, John Dewey, and education–religion dialogues.
Dr Ghiloni has taught the following subjects within UQ’s Studies in Religion discipline: History of the Supernatural, Belief and Unbelief, World Religions, Spirituality in the Everyday, and Western Religious Thought from the Middle Ages to the Present. He supervises doctoral students working in religion and culture.
Availability
- Dr Aaron Ghiloni is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Christian Studies
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Islamic Studies
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Pragmatism, especially the philosophy of John Dewey
Works
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2013
Journal Article
On writing interdisciplinary theology
Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2013). On writing interdisciplinary theology. Practical Theology, 6 (1), 9-33. doi: 10.1179/pra.6.1.bp158hp6266484mr
2013
Journal Article
'Gumboot religion': religious responses to an Australian natural disaster
Ghiloni, Aaron J. and Shaw, Sylvie (2013). 'Gumboot religion': religious responses to an Australian natural disaster. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 7 (1), 27-48. doi: 10.1558/jsrnc.v7i1.27
2012
Book
John Dewey among the theologians
Ghiloni, Aaron (2012). John Dewey among the theologians. New York, United States: Peter Lang Publishing. doi: 10.3726/978-1-4539-0589-0
2011
Journal Article
Is formation education?
Ghiloni, Aaron (2011). Is formation education?. Journal of Christian Education, 54 (3), 29-41. doi: 10.1177/002196571105400305
2011
Journal Article
Interreligious education: what would Dewey do?
Ghiloni, Aaron J. (2011). Interreligious education: what would Dewey do?. Religious Education, 106 (5), 476-493. doi: 10.1080/00344087.2011.613345
2010
Other Outputs
Theology as Education: John Dewey in Dialogue with Christian Doctrine
Aaron J. Ghiloni (2010). Theology as Education: John Dewey in Dialogue with Christian Doctrine. PhD Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion & Classics, The University of Queensland.
2009
Journal Article
A Deweyan reading of the doctrine of creation
Ghiloni, A. J. (2009). A Deweyan reading of the doctrine of creation. Journal of Christian Education, 52 (1), 45-55. doi: 10.1177/002196570905200106
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Aaron Ghiloni is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Completed supervision
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
Wide-Awake In God's World: Bible Engagement For Teenage Spiritual Formation In A Culture Of Expressive Individualism
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