Peter Kurti

Peter Kurti is Director of the Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program and is also Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Law and Business at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He has written extensively about issues of religion, liberty, culture and civil society in Australia, and appears frequently as a commentator on television and radio. In addition to having written many newspaper articles, he is also the author or editor of a number of books, including The Tyranny of Tolerance: Threats to Religious Liberty in Australia; Euthanasia: Seven Questions about Voluntary Assisted DyingSacred & Profane: Faith and Belief in a Secular Society; and Beyond Belief: Rethinking the Voice to Parliament. Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an ordained minister in the Anglican Church of Australia.

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Reason, Repentance, and the Individual: Recovering the Religious Roots of Western Civilisation
Peter KurtiNovember 23, 2017OP160

Reason, repentance, and the individual are three of the principal roots of Western civilization. They...

The Tyranny of Tolerance. Threats to Religious Liberty in Australia
Peter KurtiJune 18, 2017Connorcourt Publishing

It was a confident expectation for more than a century that religion — its beliefs,...

Terror in the Name of God: Confronting acts of religious violence in a liberal society
Peter KurtiJune 10, 2017OP154

Acts of violence perpetrated in the name of religion have been reported with great prominence...

The Battle of Ideas: can the beliefs that feed terrorism be changed?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Denis Dragovic, Tanveer Ahmed, Peter KurtiSeptember 19, 2016OP149

Defeating violent Islamic extremism has been a high priority for all western countries, including Australia,...

The Democratic Deficit: How Minority Fundamentalism Threatens Liberty in Australia
Peter KurtiJuly 12, 2016Research Report 16

We are faced with a new kind of fundamentalism – call it ‘minority fundamentalism.’ It...

Hallowed Institutions: Religion and The Roots of Liberty and Prosperity
Peter KurtiFebruary 12, 2016OP144

God appears to be resurgent in 21st century societies around the world. As our awareness...

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