Carole M. Cusack is an

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religious historian The history of religion is the written record of human religious feelings, thoughts, and ideas. This period of religious history begins with the invention of writing about 5,200 years ago (3200 BCE). The prehistory of religion involves the stu ...

and author specialising in Early Medieval Northwestern Europe,

western esotericism Western esotericism, also known as the Western mystery tradition, is a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society. These ideas and currents are united since they are largely distinct both from orthod ...

, and trends in contemporary religion. Cusack received her bachelor's degree in religious studies from the

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in 1986 and her PhD in 1986. She obtained a Master of Education in Educational Psychology in 2001. Cusack has been employed at the

as a lecturer in religious studies since 1989 and has published a number of books during her career.

Selected bibliography

* ''Conversion Among the Germanic Peoples'' (1998) * ''This Immense Panorama: Studies in Honour of Eric J. Sharpe'' (1999), editor, with Peter Oldmeadow * ''The End of Religions? Religion in an Age of Globalization'' (2001), editor, with Peter Oldmeadow * ''Religion and Retributive Logic: Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf'' (2010), editor, with Christopher H. Hartney * ''Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith'' (2010) * ''The Sacred Tree: Ancient and Medieval Manifestations'' (2011) * * ''The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic: Unattended Moments'' (2017), editor, with

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