Recent Postgraduates in Religion

For a list of current postgraduates in the Religion Programme at Otago, see
"Postgraduate Study in Religion"

• Alistair Savai’i Knewstubb, 'Buddhist contemplative techniques will not cause a scientific revolution (MA, 2022)
• Luka Johnston, 'Religion and Sex Work: Sex workers perspectives on religion, identity, family and health in New Zealand and Australia' (MA, 2022)
• Gihani De Silva, 'Buddhist Nuns and Social Empowerment' (PhD, 2022)
• Thomas White, 'Contronymic Secularism: The Constitutional Politics of Religion in Fiji' (PhD, 2020)
• Holly Jones, 'Life-Prolonging Medical Care and Religiosity at the End of Life' (MA, 2020)
• Woramat Malasart, 'The Dhammakayanussati-katha: A Trace of “Siam's Boran Buddhism” from the Reign of Rama I (1782-1809 CE)' (MA, 2019)
• Keziah Wallis, 'The Bonds of Water: Strings of Connectedness in Bamar Buddhist Life' (PhD, 2018)
• Tongthida Krawengit, 'The Three Trials of Kruba Sriwichai' (MA, 2018)
• Masoumeh Rahmani, 'Drifting Through Samsara: Tacit Conversion and Disengagement in Goenka’s Vipassana Movement in New Zealand' (PhD, 2017)
• Linda Zampol D'Ortia, 'The Cape of the Devil: Salvation in the Japanese Jesuit Mission under Francisco Cabral (1570–1579)' (PhD, 2017)
• Helen Bradstock, '“Let’s Talk about Something Else”: Religion and Governmentality in New Zealand’s State Primary Schools' (PhD, 2016)
• Danilo Giambra, 'Mediated Representations: Japanese New Religions and Social Media' (MA, 2016)
• Phra Akbordin Rattana, 'On the Devotion to the Buddha in Paramanuchit’s Marabandha Episode of the Pa?hamasambodhi' (MA, 2016)
• Nicole Aaron, 'Let the “Dirty” Women Speak: The Agency and Divergent Aspirations of Devadasis and Development Interventions in Karnataka, India' (PhD, 2015)
• Phra Kiattisak, 'Mission, Meditation and Miracles: An Shigao in Chinese Tradition' (MA, 2015)
• Tenzin Mullin, 'The Shifting Narratives and Circling Bodhisattvas of Baoguo Si: A Study of Lay Buddhist Ritual at an Historic Temple on Mt. Emei, Sichuan China' (MA, 2013)
• Katharina Völker, 'Quran and Reform: Rahman, Arkoun, Abu Zayd' (PhD, 2012)
• Isara Treesahakiat, 'The Significance of Khruba Sriwichai's Role in Northern Thai Buddhism: His Sacred Biography, Meditation Practice and Influence' (MA, 2011)
• Lisa Knitter, 'Exploring Spirituality in a New Zealand Oncology Unit' (MA, 2011)
• Elizabeth Young, 'Politics and the End-Times: Pretribulational, Premillennial Dispensationalist Interpretations of the Bible and Current Events' (MA, 2010)
• Eric Repphun, 'Haunted: religious modernity and reenchantment' (PhD, 2009)
• Ron Fogel, 'Spirituality, Culture and Place: the Rainbow Temple in NSW, Australia' (MA, Anthropology-Religious Studies, 2009)
• Bindu Rajendren, 'Representing Identities through Theyyam Ritual and Performative Practices' (MDance Studies, 2009)