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Dr Al Gabay

 

Position: Honorary Associate
Room: 302 Arts Building
Campus: Bendigo
Tel: +61 3 5444 7421
Fax: +61 3 5444 7970
Email: a.gabay@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA (Calif); PhD (LaT)

Teaching Responsibilities

  • British 19th Century History
  • Australian 19th Century History
  • United States History Research interests

Research Interests

Include religion in the l8th Century, especially the role of the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg in the 'covert' Enlightenment in England and on 19th Century Spiritualism in Australia, the U.S. and Britain; and biography in History. I am currently combining these interests in a major study of the relationship between psychical research and the budding discipline of psychology in the late Victorian period.

Selected Publications

  • 'The Seance in 1870s Melbourne: Experience and Meanings', Journal of Religious History, vol. 13, no. 2, December 1984.
  • 'Alfred Deakin', in Australians: An Historical Dictionary, part of Australia 1788-1988, A Bicentennial History (Reference), 10 vols.
  • 'The Private Writings of Alfred Deakin', Historical Studies, vol. 22, no. 89, October 1987.
  • 'Alfred Deakin and Swedenborg: An Australian Experience', Journal of Religious History, vol. 16, no. 1, June 1990.
  • 'Alfred Deakin and Swedenborg: An Australian Experience', in E.J. Brock et al (Eds.), Swedenborg and His Influence, Proceedings of the Swedenborg Symposium '88, Bryn Athyn, The Academy of the New Church, 1988.
  • The Mystic Life of Alfred Deakin, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1992.
  • 'Alfred Deakin and the Source(s) of Inspiration', Voices, National Library of Australia , June 1994.
  • 'The Friends of Alfred Deakin', in Makers of Miracles, Melbourne University Press [in press]
  • 'Swedenborg, Mesmer and the "Covert" Enlightenment', New Philosophy, July-December, 1997, Vol. C, Nos. 3 & 4, pp. 619-690.
  • 'William Gay the Bendigo Poet and Federation', The New Federalist, No. 2, December 1998.
  • Messages from Beyond: Spiritualism and Spiritualists in Melbourne 's Golden Age 1870-1890, Melbourne University Press Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press, 2001.
  • Covert enlightenment: eighteenth-century counterculture and its aftermath, West Chester , Pa. Swedenborg Foundation, c2005.
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