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    Academic Biography

    1985  Bachelor of Arts Double Honours (1st plus medal in Music, 2A Psychology) (University of Sydney)

    1993  PhD (University of Sydney)

    1994  Bachelor of Theology Honours 2A (ACT); Diploma of Ministry (MTC)

    2001  Master of Professional Education and Training (Open and Distance Education specialism) (Deakin)

    2001  Deaconed (Anglican Church of Australia, Diocese of the Northern Territory)

    2002  Priested (Anglican Church of Australia, Diocese of the Northern Territory)

    PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

    1985  Research Assistant, Department of Music, University of Sydney (half-time)

    1985  MTS,  St Barnabas’, Broadway (half-time)

    1986-90 Ph.D. studies, including fourteen months fieldwork in central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory;  part-time tutoring and casual lecturing in Music and Aboriginal Performing Arts, University of Sydney

    1991-93 Student, Moore College

    1994  Missionary-in-training, St Andrew’s Hall, CMS

    1995-06 Missionary, CMS in the Diocese of the NT

    1995-01 Theology Lecturer and Dean of Anglican Students, Nungalinya College, Darwin

    1998  Academic Dean, Nungalinya College

    1999  Act. Theology Co-ordinator, Nungalinya College

    2000-01 Theology Co-ordinator, Nungalinya College

    2002-06 Aboriginal Ministry Development Officer, Diocese of the Northern Territory

    2002-06 Honorary Assistant Priest, Christ Church Cathedral, Darwin

    2006  Honorary Locum Tenens, St Luke’s Palmerston

The Rev Dr Gregory (Greg) Anderson

Head of Missions Department


“Mission is a great model for ministry”

Greg teaches mission subjects.  His research interests include Aboriginal Christian faith, missional/emerging churches, the Christian/Muslim interface, dessert recipes, ways to beat squash opponents fifteen years younger than him and cryptic crossword solutions.

greg.anderson@moore.edu.au

Articles

‘Striking a Balance: Limited Variability in Performances of a Clan Song Series from Central Arnhem Land’, in The Essence of Singing and the Substance of Song: Recent Responses to the Aboriginal Performing Arts and Other Essays in Honour of Catherine Ellis, Oceania Monographs 41, 1995, 12-26.

Review of The Didjeridu: From Arnhem Land to Internet, Karl Neuenfeldt (ed.), John Libbey, Sydney, 1997, in Media Australia International, 1997.

Review of Allan Marett, Linda Barwick and Lysbeth Ford, Rak Badjalarr: Wangga Songs for North Peron Island by Bobby Lane, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2001, in Musicology Australia (26), 2003, 136-39.

‘Musical Times: The Interplay between Metrical Time and Real Time in a Central Arnhem Land Clan Song Series’, in Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, Song and Dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land, F. Magowan and K. Neuenfeldt (eds.). Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005.

Review of Wurrurrumi Kun-Borrk: Songs from Western Arnhem Land by Kevin Djimarr. The Indigenous Music of Australia CD 1. Sydney University Press, 2007. CD and booklet, in Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2007/2.

Book: Aboriginal Ceremonies and the Bible, published by St Matthew’s, Ngukurr, NT.

Article on guidance, AFES Salt magazine, first quarter 2008

Monographs

“Supporting and developing Aboriginal ministry” in One Land, One Saviour (ed. P. Carroll and S. Etherington, Sydney: CMS Australia, pp.27-37

Murlarra: A Clan Song Series of Central Arnhem Land. Ph.D. Thesis accepted by the University of Sydney, 1993.

Arnhem Land Aboriginal Christian Dance. A research paper presented at the National Conference of the Australian Association of Liturgy, Adelaide, 1998.

Developing Theology Among Vernacular-Speaking Indigenous Australians. A research report by Greg Anderson and Peter J. Carroll funded by the Australian Research Theology Foundation, 2005.

Integrating Indigenous People with Diocesan Structures. A research project funded by Anglican Church of Australia General Synod Research Office, 2005.

Paper for School of Theology 2008 on Aboriginal understanding of spiritual powers

Participant, Institute of Teaching and Learning three-day course on Principles and Practice of University Teaching and Learning, University of Sydney, February 2007

Hymnology and the Romantic Movement

Indigenous Christian spiritual expression