The University of Western Australia

Professor John Gordon

Senior Honorary Fellow
Anthropology and Sociology

Contact details

Address

Anthropology and Sociology
The University of Western Australia (M257)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2067

Email

John.Gordon@uwa.edu.au

Qualifications

BA Georgia, MA PhD Harv.

Key research

My main research interests include the social and political influence of Christianity in Indonesia, the adoption of universal religions by indigenous peoples and the social impact of globalisation.

Publications

Gordon, J.L. 2005, Purity and pluralism: Syncretism as a theological problem among Indonesia's Muslims and Christians in Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change, Brill, Leiden

Magowan, F., Gordon, J.L. 2001, 'Introduction. Beyond Syncretism: Indigenous Expressions of World Religions', The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 12, 3, pp. 253-258.

Gordon, J. 1998 The resurgence of applied anthropology in a post-exotic world: An Australian perspective. Human Organization 57(2)127-133.

Gordon, J. 1980 The marriage nexus in Manggarai. In James J. Fox (ed.), The flow of life. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.

Gordon, J. 1971 Up top amongst none: Life in the Georgia Appalachians. (Part 4). In Russell C. Doll & M. Hawkins (eds), Educating the disadvantaged. AMS Press, New York.

Future research

I am currently working on a book with the provisional title 'Varieties of Indonesian Christian experience: An anthropological study of a minority religion in a Muslim nation' and co-editing a collection on indigenous expressions of world religions. In future I hope to initiate a project that investigates the usefulness of anthropology training in the modern corporate environment.

Research profile

Research profile and publications