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Research

Research focus

Religion and Religious Studies
Curriculum and Pedagogy
History and Archaeology
History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
Language, Communication and Culture

Highlights

Historical aspects of Christianity up to the time of Constantine,Christian Scriptures,Religious pluralism and its impact on Religious Education

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Books

Year	Output
2017	Crotty, R 2017, The Christian survivor: how Roman Christianity defeated its early competitors, Springer, Singapore. 3
2016	Crotty, R 2016, Jesus, his mother, her sister Mary and Mary Magdalene: the gnostic background to the gospel of John, David Lovell Publishing, Melbourne, Australia.
2015	Crotty, R & Lovat, T 2015, Islam: Its beginnings and history, its theology and Its importance today, ATF Theology, Australia.
2015	Crotty, R 2015, Peter the Rock: what the Roman Papacy was, and what it might become, Spectrum Publications, Australia.
2015	Lovat, T & Crotty, R 2015, Reconciling Islam, Christianity and Judaism: Islam's special role in restoring Convivencia, Springer, New York. Open access 11
2012	Crotty, R 2012, Three revolutions: three drastic changes in interpreting the Bible, ATF Press, Adelaide.
2009	Lovat, T, Toomey, R, Clement, N, Crotty, R & Nielsen, T 2009, Values education, quality teaching and service learning, David Barlow Publishing, NSW, Australia.

Chapters

Year	Output
2023	Crotty, R 2023, 'Ethics or etiquette in academic research: Honorandi Causa LXX Diem Natalem Terentii Lovat', in Dianne Rayson (ed.), Education, Religion, and Ethics – A Scholarly Collection, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, ch. 20, pp. 263-268.
2023	Crotty, R 2023, 'Values education as an ethical dilemma about sociability', in T Lovat et al. (eds), Second International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing, Springer, Switzerland, pp. 739-752.
2020	Crotty, R 2020, 'Creation myths: a deeper truth for today's religionists', in R Sarre & P Babie (eds), Religion matters: the contemporary relevance of religion, Springer, Singapore, ch. 3, pp. 41-52. Open access
2014	Crotty, R 2014, 'Fosco Antonio in his religious context', in J Gatt-Rutter & P Willis, A Soul for Australia? Reading Fosco Antonio's My Reality.
2013	Crotty, R 2013, 'Human and religious values in society: a relativistic perspective', in J Arthur & T Lovat (eds), The Routledge international handbook of education, religion and values, Routledge, USA, ch. 21, pp. 251-262.
2013	Crotty, R 2013, 'The near-sacrifice of Isaac: Jewish and Christian perspectives', in AH Cadwallader (ed.), Where the Wild Ox Roams: Biblical Essays in Honour of Norman C. Habel, The University of Sheffield, UK, ch. 13, pp. 192-209.
2012	Crotty, R 2012, 'Hagar/Hajar, muslim women and Islam: reflections on the historical and theological ramifications of the story of Ishmael's mother', in T Lovat (ed.), Women in Islam: reflections on historical and contemporary research, 1, Springer, Netherlands, ch. 12, pp. 165-184. 5
2012	Crotty, R 2012, 'Religious myth as the leading discourse in religious education: a reflection based on Abrahamic religions', in van der Zee, Theo (ed.), New perspectives in religious and spiritual education, Waxmann, Germany, ch. 9, pp. 149-164.
2010	Crotty, R 2010, 'Values education as an ethical dilemma about sociability', in T Lovat (ed.), International research handbook on values education and student wellbeing, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 631-643.
2009	Crotty, R 2009, 'The mythopoetic character of religious belief', in P Willis (ed.), Spirituality, mythopoesis and learning, Post Pressed, Australia, ch. 7, pp. 88-103.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2013	Crotty, R 2013, 'Sigillum Confessionis: the Seal of Confession in today's Roman Catholic Church', Ethics: Contemporary Perspectives, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 57-70.

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Organisation	Country
Australian Catholic University	AUSTRALIA
University of Canberra	AUSTRALIA
University of Newcastle	AUSTRALIA

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My field of teaching is mainly Religion Studies - the history and culture of early Christianity; the interface of Judaism and Christianity in the first two centuries CE.

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