Dr Paul Martin

Biography/ Background

I have been working in the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences since June 2007.

I previously worked at the University of South Australia, initially in the Library, from 1989 to 1999, and then in the Division of Business and Enterprise, from 1999 to 2005, as Administrator of the Centre of Business Analysis and Research (CoBAR).

Qualifications

BA(LIM)

MA (Rel. Stud.), 'The Dynamic of Sexuality in the Mystic Way: A Comparative Investigation into the Divine Imagery in the Texts The Flowing Light of the Godhead and Saundaryalahari'

PhD (UQ), 'The Art of Mysticism: An Inquiry into the Notion of Ineffability in (Cataphatic) Mystical Experience'

 

Research Interests

1. Art and Aesthetics

2. Continental Philosophy (Phenomenology and Post-structuralism)

3. Comparative Mysticism  (Christian, Hindu, and Jewish)

4. Physical Sciences and Mystical Theology

 

 

 

Research Funding

I received a 16-week finishing scholarship from the University of Queensland, August to November 2006.

Publications

Journal Papers (Refereed)

Martin, P. and Metcalfe, M. 2001, 'Informing the knowledge workers', Reference Services Review, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 267-75.

Martin, P. 2001, 'Love and beauty in the presence of God: pathways through beguine and tantric mysticisms', Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 23-63.

Martin, P. 2004, 'The body in the realm of desire: gendered images on the horizon of the divine', Mystics Quarterly, vol. 30, nos. 3-4, pp. 99-125.

Papers Under Review

Martin, Paul C., 'Highlighting the Sensible Topography of Divinity' [at Feminist Theology]

Working Paper

Martin, Paul C. 2009, 'The Erotic Imaginary of Divine Realization in Kabbalistic and Tantric Metaphysics'.

Conference Papers (Unrefereed)

'Shekhinah and Shakti: Prismatic References for the Realisation of the Infinite God', Australian Association of Jewish Studies 20th Anniversary Conference 2008, '"A People that dwells apart"? Exploring the Boundaries of Jewishness', 17-18 February 2008, Monash University, Melbourne.

'The Artfulness of Mystical Perspective', The Australian Association for the Study of Religions 2006 Conference, 'Celebrating the Past, Anticipating the Future', 7-9 July 2006, Adelaide, University of South Australia. Also delivered at Alternative Expressions of the Numinous, 18-20 August 2006, Brisbane, University of Queensland.

'Metaphor and the Mirror of Comparison', at The Australian Association for the Study of Religions Conference, 5-7 July 2002, University of New England, Armidale.

 

 

 

Professional Associations

American Academy of Religion

Community Engagement

I am a member of the Library Operations Group at Sophia, an ecumenical feminist spirituality centre founded by the Dominican Sisters of South Australia, and located at Cumberland Park.

 

 

Entry last updated: Friday, 21 Aug 2009