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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Book Launch for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Some New World,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>by Professor Peter Harrison<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">The School of Philosophy & Theology and the Institute for Ethics & Society at the University of Notre Dame Australia are delighted to host a book launch for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Some
New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by UNDA Professorial Research Fellow Peter Harrison.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Published by Cambridge University Press,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Some New World</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>explores<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">the
modern problem of supernatural belief and the disjuncture between contemporary Western culture and medieval societies. In this masterful contribution to intellectual history, Peter Harrison overturns crucial misconceptions – ‘myths’ – about secular modernity,
challenging common misunderstandings of the past even as he reinvigorates religious thinking in the present.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/MPfTCANpgjCrn02W9iGCfgS?domain=cambridge.org" title="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/some-new-world/300E90A9C1F983C06D4859F2BD365474"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/some-new-world/300E90A9C1F983C06D4859F2BD365474</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Peter Harrison is Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Australia, and Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy at the University of Queensland.
From 2014 to 2019 he was an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, and prior to this, the Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. He is the author of numerous books on the history of science and religion, including<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The
Territories of Science</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Narratives of Secularization</i>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Sarah Irving-Stonebraker is Associate Professor of History and Western Civilisation at the Australian Catholic University. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge
and is the author of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire</i>, along with many journal articles and book chapters on the history of Britain and the colonial world and the intersection of religion,
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Date: May 30th 2024, 5:00pm<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Location: Moorgate Room,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">School of Philosophy
and Theology, University of Notre Dame Australia, 10 Grafton St, Chippendale</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">RSVP: David Bronstein,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:david.bronstein@nd.edu.au" title="mailto:david.bronstein@nd.edu.au"><span style="color:#0078D7">david.bronstein@nd.edu.au</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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