Publications & Media

Journal Articles.

Gleeson, K. & Poulos, E. (2024) Religion and politics after marriage equality in Australia: contemporary challenges in the politics of religious freedom. Australian Journal of Political Science, 59(1), 72-77 (Introduction to Symposium).

Poulos, E. (2023) Three discourses of religious freedom: How and why political talk about religious freedom in Australia has changed. Religions, 2023, 14(5), 669.

McLeay, A., Poulos, E. & Richardson-Self, L. (2023). The shifting Christian Right discourse on religious freedom in Australia. Politics and Religion, 16(2), 197-218.

Poulos, E. (2021). ‘The bell was tolling’: The framing of religious freedom in The Australian editorials 2015-2019. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 26(3), 428-448.

Poulos, E. (2020). The power of belief: Religious freedom in Australian parliamentary debates on same-sex marriage. Australian Journal of Political Science, 55(1), 1-19.

Poulos, E. (2019). Constructing the problem of religious freedom: An analysis of Australian government inquiries into religious freedom. Religions, 10(583), 1-17.

Poulos, E. (2018). Protecting freedom/protecting privilege: Church responses to anti-discrimination law reform in Australia. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 24(1), 117-133.

Other Selected Publications.

Book Chapter

Poulos, E. (2023). The turn to belief: When religious freedom undermines religious diversity. In: Freedom of Religion and Religious Pluralism, pp. 123-146, edited by M. J. H. Bhuiyan and C. M. Zoethout, Brill

Book Review

Poulos, E. (2022). Charles McCrary, Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 36(1), 145–147.

PhD Thesis

Poulos, E. (2021). The politics of belief: The rise of religious freedom in Australia. Macquarie University, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations (awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Academic Excellence.

Edited Book

Coghill, C. & Poulos, E. (eds) (2016) For a World Reconciled: Justice statements from the Uniting Church in Australia 1977-2015. Sydney: Uniting Church in Australia Assembly.

Selected Public Commentary.

‘Breaking the dinner table taboo: religion and politics’. God Forbid, ABC Radio National, guest panellist with Jan Ali, Western Sydney University and Patrick Parkinson, University of Queensland, 28 July 2023.

‘Andrew Thorburn’s Essendon exit wasn’t a religious freedom failure it was a recruitment failure’. The Guardian, 8 October 2022.

‘Did the Morrison government change the relationship between religion and politics in Australia?’. The Conversation, 25 September 2022.

‘Church, God and Guns’. God Forbid, ABC Radio National, guest panellist with David T. Smith, University of Sydney, 12 June 2022.

‘New religious discrimination bill will cause damage to Australian society that will be difficult to heal’. The Conversation, 24 November 2021.

‘The debate about religious discrimination is back, so why do we keep hearing about religious “freedom”?’. with Louise Richardson-Self & Shari Lembryk, The Conversation, 19 November 2021.

‘Religious freedom in Australian parliamentary same-sex marriage debates’. Inherently Human – Critical Perspectives on Law, Gender and Sexuality, 25 February 2019.