Associate Professor Tom Aechtner
Associate Professor in Religion and Science
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Biography
Associate Professor
School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Queensland
Biography
Tom Aechtner is the University of Queensland’s Associate Professor in Religion and Science. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, an MA in Religious Studies from the University of Calgary, and a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Alberta. His primary work lies in contemporary science-and-religion discourse, with a focus on religiously motivated antievolutionism, vaccine hesitancy, mass persuasion, and public perceptions of science.
Honoraria Titles
Major Prizes
Religion, Philosophy & History Interests
Christianity-Protestantism
Science & Technology Interests
Evolution
Website
https://uq.academia.edu/TomAechtner
Publications
Media and Science-Religion Conflict: Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars
Routledge 2020
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429356544
Religion, Trust, and Vaccine Hesitancy in Australia: An Examination of Two Surveys
2022
Co-authors: Jeremy Farr
Volume:35:2
Pages:218–244
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JASR/article/view/22476
Creationism with an Australian Accent: Politics, Schools, and Global Exportation
2021
Volume:12:1
Pages:124-148
http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503591933-1
Distrust, Danger, and Confidence: A Content Analysis of the Australian Vaccination-Risks Network Blog
2020
Pages:1-20
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0963662520963258
COVID 19 Vaccine Uptake: A Précis of Formative Research Findings for Queensland Health
2021
Pages:1-5
https://www.academia.edu/50836432/COVID_19_Vaccine_Uptake_A_Pr%C3%A9cis_of_Formative_Research_Findings_for_Queensland_Health
Cues, Values and Conflict: Reassessing Evolution Wars Media Persuasion
2020
Volume:8 (2)
Pages:249-284
https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/SetF/article/view/SetF.2020.0
Improving Evolution Advocacy: Translating Vaccine Interventions to the Evolution Wars
2020
Volume:55 (1)
Pages:27-51
https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12577
Convergent antievolutionism and the Hare Krishnas
2019
Co-authors: Oliver Zambon
Volume:17 (3)
Pages:292-296
https://doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2019.1632516
Teaching Warfare: Conflict and Complexity in Contemporary University Textbooks
University of Pittsburgh Press 2019
Editors:Bernard Lightman
Pages:160-180
https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945741/
Science and Religion Perspectives at St. John’s University of Tanzania (SJUT)
2018
Co-authors: Malcolm S. Buchanan
Volume:33 (2)
Pages:337-345
https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12395
Vaishnavism, Antievolutionism, and Ambiguities: Revisiting ISKCON's Darwin-Skepticism
2018
Co-authors: Oliver Zambon
Volume:53 (1)
Pages:67-94
https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12395
Social Scientists
Johns Hopkins University Press 2018
Editors:Jeff Hardin, Ronald L. Numbers and Ronald A. Binzley
Pages:302-323
Terrorism in the Evolution Wars: Mass Media and Human Nature
2016
Volume:14 (4)
Pages:495-517
https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2016.1177346
Challenging the Darwin Skeptics: Examining Proevolutionist Media Persuasion
2016
Volume:15 (2)
Pages:78-99
https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2016.1177346
Galileo Still Goes to Jail: Conflict Model Persistence within Introductory Anthropology Materials
2015
Volume:50 (1)
Pages:209-226
https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12149
Health, Wealth, and Power in an African Diaspora Church in Canada
Palgrave Macmillan 2015
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137485496
Darwin-Skeptic Mass Media: Examining Persuasion in the Evolution Wars
2014
Volume:13 (4)
Pages:187-207
https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2014.971559
Standing at the Crux: Pentecostalism and Identity Formation in an African Diaspora Christian Community
Brill 2012
Editors:Michael Wilkinson
Pages:171-194
https://brill.com/view/title/22097
Online in the Evolution Wars: An Analysis of Young Earth Creationist Cyber-Propaganda
2010
Volume:23 (3)
Pages:277-300
https://doi.org/10.1558/arsr.v23i3.277
