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ProfessorIain Gardner

Professor Emeritus

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Professor Emeritus
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTs

  • Early Christianity and ancient Christianity in Africa and Asia
  • Gnostic and Coptic Studies
  • Papyrology
  • Manichaeism
  • Magic in Late Antiquity

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Liturgical texts and practices in the ancient world
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Apr 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Franzmann M,
    • Gardner I,
    • Mikkelsen G
  • GRANT
    Seth, God of Confusion: the archaeology of a cult centre in Egypt
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hope C,
    • Bowen G,
    • Gardner I
  • GRANT
    The function of images in magical papyri and artefacts of ritual power from Late Antiquity.
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2012
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    The digital restoration of the Dublin Kephalaia codex and its importance for the history of religion
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2009
    People funded by this grant:
    • Dilley P,
    • BeDuhn J,
    • Gardner I
  • GRANT
    Mission and Inculturation: the Manichaean and Nestorian experience in China- a textual, iconographical and epigraphical investigation.
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2005
    People funded by this grant:
    • Lieu S,
    • Gardner I
  • GRANT
    Manichaean & Medieval Christian (Nestorian & Catholic) remains in Quanzhou (S.China) - an epigraphical,iconographical & historical investigation
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2002
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hunter E,
    • Eccleston L,
    • van Tongerloo A,
    • Gardner I,
    • Sims-Williams N
  • GRANT
    An investigation of the processes of social and cultural change in the Christianisation of 4th century Egypt
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2000
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gardner I,
    • Franzmann M