Getting knocked back for a publication is not a concern, in and of itself, but the issue is how today’s academics are not yet understanding the emerging scholarship of cognition histories and cognition sociology. Below is such a rejection letter....
Concepts in Religious Thought Series
The Sociology of Teen Challenge (Qld) Inc. An Academic Paper on Cognition Histories
Teen Challenge (Qld) Inc. existed as a youth charity and a set of programs in drug rehabilitation. It is also a case study of a regional Christian organisation working out its thinking for 40 years. The Sociology of Teen Challenge (Qld) Inc....
The Concept of the Level Playing Field
NDB. The Level Playing Field Saturday, 3 August 2024 ONLINE APPLICATION TO WHOM IT CONCERNS Dear Friend, Attached is the draft essay, “The Concept of the Level Playing Field.” I am the sole author and disclaim all...
Draft SoFiA Position Statement (1 July 2024)
“SOFiA is a network of Australians interested in openly exploring issues of life and meaning through reason, philosophy, ethics, religion, science and the arts. We want to explore for ourselves what we can believe and how we can find meaning in our lives.” ...
Why the Disciplines and No Apologetics? Part 2: The History and Future of Apologetics Courses in Christian colleges: The Historiographical Challenges from Marc Bloch (1886-1944)
The History and Future of Apologetics Courses in Christian colleges: The Historiographical Challenges from Marc Bloch (1886-1944). By Neville Buch, Ph.D., MPHA 2023 PESA Conference INTRODUCTION The paper is an examination on the history and future of...
Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi: The Homogeneous Trap
Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi makes claims of “dogmatic affirmation of diversity as a sacred value by an equally one-sided assertion of homogeneity”. It is ‘culture-history warfare’ dribble. He has selectively used Garsten (2017) on the case of the French...
2023-2025 NDB Book Project Priorities
In 2021, I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2021-2023. I had started this strategy in 2018, when I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2018-2020. The gap year of 2020 in book planning was a reset from...
The Wake-Up Message to the Head-in-the-Sand Culture-History Warriors
The Wake-Up Message to the Head-in-the-Sand Culture-History Warriors…the world has changed and you are left at its margins, raging with no clear intelligence. You have become marginalised in understanding the new world, as you are marginalised in your poverty,...
Conspiratorial Force, mostly no, mundane force of inertia, mostly yes…
As perspectivism -- that we perceive as a perspective in the moment; each person can decide for themselves how the world is. It is then the argument of social reality of each. I do not see how direct realism is possible, however, our theoretical orientation cannot be...