Fieldwork on G. I. Gurdjieff and the “Work”

Authors

  • Carole M. Cusack University of Sydney

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/firn.32186

Keywords:

George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, esotericism, the Fourth Way

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Author Biography

  • Carole M. Cusack, University of Sydney

    Carole M. Cusack is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney. She trained as a medievalist and her doctorate was published as Conversion Among the Germanic Peoples (Cassell, 1998). Since the late 1990s she has taught in contemporary religious trends, publishing on pilgrimage and tourism, modern Pagan religions, new religious movements, and religion and popular culture. She is the author of Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (Ashgate, 2010), The Sacred Tree: Ancient and Medieval Manifestations (Cambridge Scholars, 2011) and Anime, Religion and Spirituality: Profane and Sacred Worlds in Contemporary Japan (with Katharine Buljan, Equinox 2015). She is editor of Literature & Aesthetics (the journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics).

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Published

2016-11-07

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2016): Special Issue: Fieldwork on G. I. Gurdjieff and the “Work”

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How to Cite

Cusack, C. (2016). Fieldwork on G. I. Gurdjieff and the “Work”. Fieldwork in Religion, 11(1), 5-9. https://doi.org/10.1558/firn.32186