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Professor Emeritus Gary D Bouma

Academic Background
Present Appointments
Career Highlights
Research Interests
Work in Progress
Recent Publications
Personal

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Emeritus Professor of Sociology
UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations – Asia Pacific
Chair, Standing Committee on Ethics in Research Involving Humans

Academic Background

PhD(Sociology) Cornell, United States 1970
MA (Social Psychology) Cornell, United States 1968
BD (History of Dogma and Church and Society) Princeton Theological Seminary, United States 1966
BA (Greek and Philosophy) Calvin, United States 1963
Western Michigan University, 1960‑1961

Present Appointments

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University 2008
UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations – Asia Pacific 2005

Career Highlights

Australian Soul awarded ‘first prize’ by Australasian Theological Forum
Chair of the Board of Management, Parliament of the World’s Religions 2009 Melbourne.
Honorary Fellow, Mannix College.
Deputy Vice Chancellor and Vice President (Acting), Monash University 2002 - 2004
Awarded the Australian Intercultural Society's (AIS) Peace Award for Inter-faith Relations
Visiting Fellow, Reshaping Australian Institutions Project, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University 1994-2000
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor Monash University 1979-1995
Assistant/Associate Professor, and Head, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University, Canada 1970-1979
Associate Priest in the Anglican Parishes of St John's Toorak, St Andrews Brighton and St Martin's Hawksburn, St Dunstan's Camberwell and St John’s East Malvern in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne.
Chair of the Christian Research Association.
Editorial Board, Australian Social Monitor
Editorial Board, British Journal of Sociology
Editorial Board Australian Religious Studies Review

Research Interests

Professor Bouma's research has primarily focussed on the interaction between religion and society in Western societies including Canada, The United States, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Current work includes a major study of religious plurality in multicultural Australia making strategic comparisons with other societies; research into gender and the management of religious diversity focussing on women and Islam in China, Malaysia and Japan; an attempt to delineate Australia's religious institution and continuing work on Post-Modernity as a context for interfaith dialogue and theological reflection.

Work in Progress

Religion, Cultural Diversity and Social Cohesion
Comparative Organisational Varieties in Globalising Religions
The Management of Religious Diversity in plural, secular, post-modern societies
Theories of Social Cohesion in Multicultural and Multifaith Societies

Recent Publications

Books

2008 'The Challenge of Religious Revitalisation and Religious Diversity to Social Cohesion in Secular Societies' pp 13-16 in B Turner (ed) Religious Plurality and Civil Society. Singapore: Singapore University Press.
2007 'Cultural Diversity, Religious Plurality and Government Policy in Australia' Pp 173-91in John Hinnels (ed), Religious Reconstruction in the South Asian Diasporas. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2007 'The Settlement of Zen in Australia' Pp 30-44 in R Pereira and H Matsuoka (Eds) Japanese Religions in and Beyond the Japanese Diaspora. Berkeley CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
2007 'Globalization, Social Capital and the Challenge to Harmony of Recent Changes in Australia's Religious and Spiritual Demography: 1947-2001' Pp 375-91 in A Hassem and A Sarwal (eds) Australian Studies Now. New Delhi: Indialog Publications.
2007 'Religion and law in Social Life' Pp 75-79 in Swee Hin Toh (Ed) Living under Religious and Civil Law. Brisbane: Griffiths University Interfaith Centre.
2007 'Religious Resurgence and Diversity and Social Cohesion in Australia'. Pp 80-89 in James Jupp and John Nieuwenhuysen (eds) Social Cohesion in Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press . (With Rod Ling).
2007 'Religious Resurgence, Conflict and the Transformation of Boundaries' in Beyer and Beaman (eds) Religion, Globalization and Culture. Amsterdam: Brill.
2006 'Australia's Changing Religious Landscape: 1947-2001' pp34-42 in Helen Richmond and Myong Duk Yang (Eds) Crossing Boarders: Shaping Faith, Ministry and Identity in Multicultural Australia. UCA Assembly & NSW Board of Mission.
2007 Democracy in Islam. London: Routledge. With Sayed Khatab
2006 Australian Soul: Religion and Spirituality in the 21st Century. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. In press
2004 Religion, Cultural Diversity and Safeguarding Australia. Canberra: DIMIA. With Desmond Cahill, Hass Dellal, and Michael Leahey
2004 The Research Process, 5th revised edition Melbourne: Oxford University Press. with Rod Ling.
2000 The Research Process, 4th revised edition Melbourne: Oxford University Press. vi+242Pp.
1999 Managing Religious Diversity: From Threat to Promise. Erskineville,NSW: Australian Association for the Study of Religions. Editor. 154 Pp.
1999 Religion in an Age of Change. Kew: Christian Research Association. co-editor with Harry Ballis. 175 Pp.
1997 Many Religions All Australian: Religious Settlement, Identity and Cultural Diversity.
Melbourne: Christian Research Association. Editor. xvi+220 Pp.
1996 The Research Process, 3rd revised edition. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. i-viii+238 Pp.
1996 Believe It or Not: Australian Spirituality and the Churches in the 90s. Melbourne: Christian Research Association. i-viii + 117pp. with Philip Hughes, Craig Thompson and Rohan Pryor.
1995 A Handbook of Social Science Research, 2nd revised edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. xvi + 247pp. with B. Atkinson.
1994 Mosques and Muslim Settlement in Australia. Canberra: Bureau of Immigration, Population and Multicultural Studies xii + 112 Pp.

Book Chapters

2006 'The religious contribution of Dutch migrants to multicultural Australia'. in Nonja Peters (ed) The Dutch Downunder - 1606-2006. Perth: University of Western Australia Press.
2005 'Religion' chapter 42 (Vol 1 pp 351-354) in Ulrich Ammon, Norbert Dittmar, Klaus Mattheier and Peter Trudgill (Eds) Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook for the Science of Language and Society. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
2004 'The Emerging Role of Religion in Public Policy In the Asia Pacific' pp 67-79 in M Vicziany, D Wright-Neville and P. Lentini (Eds) Regional Security in the Asia Pacific: 9/11 and After. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
2003 'Transnational Factors Affecting the Study of Religion' in Moberg (Ed) Review of Social Scientific Studies of Religion, 14:211-228.
2003 'Social Justice Issues in the Management of Religious Diversity in Australia' chapter 23 n JT Richardson (Ed) Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe. New York: Kluwer Academic.
2003 'Religion and Spirituality', Pp 626-637 in I McAllister, S Dowrick and R Hassan (Eds) The Cambridge Hadbook of Social Sciences in Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2002 'Religion and Spiritualtiy', Pp 426-442 in R. Jureidini and M Poole (Eds) Sociology: Australian Connections, Third Edition. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.
2001 'Muslims Managing Religious Diversity' Pp 53-72 in Abdullah Saeed and Shahram Akbardazeh (eds) Muslim Communities in Australia: University of New South Walses Press. (with Joan Daw and Riffat Munawar).
2001 'Globalisation and Localisation: Pentecostals and Anglicans in Australia and the United States' Pp 83-92 in C Cusack and P Oldmeadow (Eds) The End of Religions? Religion in an Age of Globalisation, University of Sydney Press.
2000 'A Socio-demographic History of the Rise of Religious Diversity in Australia: 1947-1998' Pp 78-88 in Hu Zhuanglin (Ed) A Bright Prospect of Sino-Australian Cooperation (Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Australian Studies) Beijing: (Chinese) Australian Studies Association.
2000 'Religion and Spirituality' Pp 386-402 in R Jureidini and M Poole (Eds) Sociology: Australian Connections, Second Edition. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.
2000 `Japanese Religion in Australia: Mahikari and Zen in a Multicultural Society' Pp 74 - 112 in Peter Clarke (Ed), Japanese New Religions in the World. London: Curzon Press (with W Smith and S Vasi).
1999 `Mapping Religious Contours' Pp. 5-11 in P H Ballis and G D Bouma (eds) Religion in an Age of Change Kew: Christian Research Association.
1999 `Sociology and Theology in the Re-imagination of God' Pp 12-22 in P H Ballis and G D Bouma (eds) Religion in an Age of Change Kew: Christian Research Association.
1998 `New Religions in Australia: Cultural Diffusion in Action' pp 203-212 in Madeleine Cousineau (ed.) Religion in a Changing World: Comparative Studies in Sociology London: Praeger.

Articles - Peer Reviewed:

2008 'The Challenge of Religious Revitalisation to Multicultural and Multifaith Australia', The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations. Volume 8 (http://www.Diversity-Journal.com)
2005 'Patterns of religious residential concentration in Victoria: Changes 1996-2001' People and Place 13, 4:1-11. (with Ian Dobson).
2005 'The challenge of religious revitalisation to educating for shared values and interfaith understanding' New Horizons in Education,
112:32-4.
2004 'A Comparative Study of the Management of Religious Diversity: Melbourne and Hong Kong' International Journal of Sociology, 19:5-24. With A Singleton.
2003 'Globalization, Social Capital and the Challenge to Harmony of Recent Changes in Australia's Religious and Spiritual Demography: 1947
2001. Australian Religious Studies Review, 16,2:55-68.>
2003 'Transnational Factors Affecting the Study of Religion' in Moberg (Ed) Review of Social Scientific Studies of Religion, 14:211-228.
2003 'Work, Religious Diversity and Islam' in Chris Nyland (Ed), Asia Pacific HRM. 41:51-61 with W Smith, Ali Haidar and Chris Nyland.
2003 'Estimating Religious Behaviour And Spirituality In Australia Using Time-Budget Data' Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 41:107-112 with D Lennon.
2002 'Globalization and Recent Changes in The Demography of Australian Religious Groups' People and Place, 10, 4:17-23.
2001 The Religious Contribution of Dutch Migrants to Multicultural Australia' Australian Religious Studies Review 14,2:59-68.
2000 'Religious Residential Concentrations in Australia' People and Place 8, 3:18-27 with P Hughes.
2000 `Gender and Religious Settlement: Families, Hijabs and Diets' Journal of Intercultural Studies 2:160-175 with Jan Govan.
2000 `Exercising Our Duty of Care as Researchers for Those We Diagnose to be `At Risk' Australian Universities 43,2:32-37 with Benedict Canny.
2000 `Christian Mission in Multicultural Australia' South Pacific Journal of Mission Studies, 23:23-26.
1999 `Social Justice Issues in the Management of Religious Diversity in Australia' Social Justice Research, 12:283-295.
1999 `From Hegemony to Plurality: Managing Religious Diversity in Modernity and Post-modernity' The Australian Religious Studies Review 12,2:7-27.
1998 `Distinguishing Institutions and Organisations in Social Change' Journal of Sociology 34,3:232-244.
1998 `The New Europe and Church State Relations: The Case of Euro-Anglicans' Journal of Church and State 26, 2:181-190.
1998 `Religion and Age in Australia' People and Place 6(1):18-25. with Philip Hughes.
1997 `How Religions Become Australian' Migration Action XIX(1):37-41.
1997 `Increasing Diversity in Religious Identification in Australia: Comparing 1947, 1991 and
1996 Census Reports' People and Place 5,3:12-18.
1997 `The Settlement of Islam in Australia' Social Compass 44(1):71-82.
1996 `God, Spock and the New Physics: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Recent Changes in Theology.' Australian Religious Studies Review. 9,1:60-70.

Monographs and Research Reports:

2008 Muslim Voices: Hopes and Aspirations of Muslim Australians. Centre for Muslim Minorities and Islam Policy Studies, Monash University. vi + 58pp. With Shahram Akbarzadeh, and Rachel Woodlock.
2008 Mapping Employment and Education among Muslim Australians. Centre for Muslim Minorities and Islam Policy Studies, Monash University. vi + 44pp. With Shahram Akbarzadeh, and Rachel Woodlock.
2007 Bouma, Gary, Sharon Pickering , Hass Dellal and Anna Halaffof Managing the Impact of Global Crisis Events on Community Relations in Multicultural Australia: Models and Processes. Report to Multicultural Affairs Queensland and Victorian Office of Multicultural Affairs. http://mp3.news.com.au/bcm/Multicultural/MAQ_Global_Crisis_bkgrnd_report.pdf
2007 Managing the Impact of Global Crisis Events on Community Relations in Multicultural Australia: Background Report. Melbourne and Brisbane: Multicultural Affairs Queensland and Victorian Multicultural Commission. 124pp. with Sharon Pickering, Anna halafoff, and Hass Dellal.
2007 Managing the Impact of Global Crisis Events on Community Relations in Multicultural Australia: Community Relations Tool Kit. Melbourne and Brisbane: Multicultural Affairs Queensland and Victorian Multicultural Commission. 124pp. with Sharon Pickering, Anna halafoff, and Hass Dellal.
2007 Bouma, Gary, Sharon Pickering , Hass Dellal and Anna Halaffof Managing the Impact of Global Crisis Events on Community Relations in Multicultural Australia: Models and Processes. Report to Multicultural Affairs Queensland and Victorian Office of Multicultural Affairs. http://mp3.news.com.au/bcm/Multicultural/MAQ_Global_Crisis_bkgrnd_report.pdf
2007 Globalization's New Challenge: Social Cohesion in Diverse Communities. Chatham House and Global Terrorism Research Centre at Monash University
2007 Introducing Australia: A Course for Clergy New to Australia. Project Summary. Monash University, PSI
2007 Social Integration of Muslims in Cobram. Centre for Muslim Minorities and Islam Policy studies, Monash University.
2006 'The beliefs and practices of The Brethren compared with those of other groups' expert opinion in the case of The Exclusive Brethren vs the Brisbane City Council before the High Court of Australia (No. B4 of 2006, Registry Brisbane).
2003 A Statement on Muslim Communities in Australia. Expert opinion given In the Matter of Islamic Council of Victoria Inc Vs Catch the Fire Ministries Inc before the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Antidiscrmination List No A392/5002. 50pp.
2002 An Opinion on Whether Scientology's Purification Rundown is a Religious Ritual. Sworn testimony before the Supreme Court of the ACT. iii + 74 pp.
2002 Do Muslims Constitute an Ethnic Group? Opinion on a case before the Victorian Supreme Court relating to religious and ethnic vilification. 5p
1999 `Promoting Freedom of Religion and Belief in our Region' Submission 15 to The Human Rights Sub-Committee, Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Thirty-ninth Parliament, Human Rights Sub-Committee, Volume One, Canberra: Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, pp 73-80.
1998 A Consultation of Victorian University Human Ethics Committees: A Conference Report Melbourne: Monash University Standing Committee on Ethics in Research on Humans. i-v+11pp.
1997 Religion and Cultural Diversity: A Report of the Conference Melbourne: Australian Multicultural Foundation.
1997 Religious Settlement: Immigration, Identity and Cultural Diversity. Draft Research Report to the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Canberra.
1995 Religious Tolerance in Australia. Religion in Australia Series, #3, Melbourne: World Conference on Religion and Peace. 28pp.
1995 Commencing Clergy Careers: Gender Differences among Anglican Priests and Deacons. a report to the Women's Commission of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia. Melbourne: General Synod. 35pp (released 1996).

Personal

Gary was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and moved to Canada on completion of his PhD and to Australia in 1979. An Anglican priest, he has been a religious professional in more than 8 denominations and particularly enjoys a small Anglican Parish in Brittany which he helped re-vitalise. He is married to Patricia Bouma and together they have 3 living children and 2 grandchildren. A keen sailor, cook and gourmand, he enjoys life in Melbourne.