Scriptures in the Study of G. I. Gurdjieff and the “Work”

Authors

  • Carole M. Cusack University of Sydney

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/post.21411

Keywords:

Gurdjieff

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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 researches and teaches on contemporary religious trends (including pilgrimage and tourism, modern Pagan religions, NRMs, and religion and popular culture). Her books include Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (Ashgate, 2010) and (with Katharine Buljan) Anime, Religion, and Spirituality: Profane and Sacred Worlds in Contemporary Japan (Equinox, 2015). In 2016 she became Editor of Fieldwork in Religion, and she is also Editor of Literature & Aesthetics (journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics).

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2022-02-01

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2021): Special Issue: Scriptures in the Study of G. I. Gurdjieff and the “Work”

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Cusack, C. M. . (2022). Scriptures in the Study of G. I. Gurdjieff and the “Work”. Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts, 12(2), 147–149. https://doi.org/10.1558/post.21411