Doctor Vassilios Adrahtas

Vassilis Adrahtas teaches Islamic Studies at Western Sydney University and Ancient Greek Religion and Myth at the University of NSW. He holds a PhD in the Sociology of Religion from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece, and a PhD in Studies in Religion from the University of Sydney. He has been teaching at a number of universities both in Australia and overseas since 2002. His specialisation is in the Political Phenomenology of Early Christianity, Patristics, Byzantine Philosophy, the History of Religions and Indigenous Australian Studies. He has authored and co/edited more than ten books.  

His most recent publications are ‘John Damascene’s Reception and Interpretation of the Corpus Areopagiticum’, in S. Ables (ed.) John of Damascus: More than a Compiler (Brill 2023); ‘Intellectual Hegemony, Conversion Discourse and Early Christian Apologetic Literature’, in Religions 2021, 12(9), 782; Islam, Civility and Political Culture (Palgrave Macmillan 2021, co-edited with M. Milani); ‘The Feminine in the Poetry of Yunus Emre: A Case Study in the Hierophanic Dialectics of Mystical Islamic Experiences’, in Religions, 12(9), 727; ‘Translating Crisis into Logic: John Damascene’s Iconic Conceptualization of History vis-a-vis Late Neoplatonic Symbolism’, in E. Anagnostou-Laoutides & K. Parry (eds) Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy (Brill 2020).

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