Onya Nun!

Presenting Onya Nun!, the inaugural academic research endeavor singularly focused on Theravadin Buddhist nuns within the Australian context.

This volume, an abridged iteration of a doctoral dissertation, offers a rigorous poststructural discourse analysis derived from empirical interviews with Australian Buddhist monastics and lay adherents.

The work meticulously examines global gender inequities confronting Buddhist women, viewed through the unique socioreligious landscape of Australian Theravada Buddhism.

Onya Nun! constitutes an indispensable resource for Buddhist monastics, lay practitioners, and scholars, providing an unprecedented historical repository.

In adherence to research ethics and for archival integrity, all interview transcripts are appended, thereby preserving the authentic voices and lived experiences of Australian nuns.

Roy Sneddon is a Scottish-born Australian living in Adelaide, South Australia. Following a long involvement with academia, he has achieved a BGenSt (Griffith University), MHlthAdm (Flinders University), and a PhD (University of Adelaide).

His interest in Buddhism was sparked some thirty years ago in Japan when, while desperate for something to read, he found a discarded Buddhist text translated to English. This moment of happenstance eventually culminated in his doctoral research: Exploring Gender Equity Issues facing Theravada Buddhist Nuns in Australia, for which Roy travelled the country yarning with local nuns and monks.

Now with his thesis completed, Roy can happily return to his meditation practices: motorcycle rides, Wing Chun Kung Fu and beekeeping.

The Decline and Fall of Judeo-Christian Civilisation

What happens when the values that once held a culture together crumble to dust? In this uncompromising collection, Murray turns a sharp eye to the fractures of modern life.

JAMES A MURRAY WAS born in Melbourne and grew up in Queensland, the great-grandson of Irish, Scottish, and Cornish migrants who settled in Australia in the midnineteenth century.

Over the years, his passions have included music, bushwalking, and raising his two children.

Now living in solitude in a remote corner of the Northern Territory, he spends his days writing and playing online chess.

Are we on the Right Path or the Wrong One ?

In any society, self-examination is not a luxury — it is a necessity.

FINLAY MACRITCHIE is an internationally recognised scientist and Emeritus Professor of Grain Science & Industry at Kansas State University, USA. He previously worked at CSIRO in Australia for 30 years and held visiting professorships in universities across Europe and South America. He has published over 150 scientific papers and five books. He has been a member of the Editorial Boards of Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, Cereal Chemistry and Journal of Cereal Science and was Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Cereal Science (2008 – 2018). Professor MacRitchie’s awards include the F.B. Guthrie Medal of the Cereal Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and the Thomas Burr Osborne Medal and George W. Scott Blair Memorial Award of the American Association of Cereal Chemists (now AACC International). In 2020, Stanford University listed him among the world’s top 2% of researchers.

SYLVIA MACRITCHIE-HOOK is a qualified marketing and communications specialist with over 25 years of professional experience. Her background includes work across various sectors, including publishing and media in London, Sydney, and San Francisco. She has also held roles at top-tier law firms, in higher education, and within the Catholic sector. Most recently, she served in a senior management role at a prominent Catholic organisation in Australia. Currently, she is a Ramsay Scholar at Australian Catholic University, pursuing a Master of Liberal Arts (Western Civilisation).