| Intro | Australian linguist and Anglican priest |
| A.K.A. | Mark John Durie |
| Is | Linguist |
| From | Australia |
| Type |
Literature Social science |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 1958 |
| Age: | 62 years |
Mark Durie (born 1958, Dogura, Papua) is an Australian pastor and scholar in linguistics and theology.
Life and career
Mark Durie was educated at Canberra Grammar School in Canberra, Australia, and studied Pure Mathematics, Germanic Languages and Linguistics by the Australian National University (honours supervisors: Harold Koch and Hans Kuhn). He was awarded a PhD at the Australian National University in 1984 (PhD supervisor: William A. Foley). Subsequently he held visiting scholarships and fellowships at the University of Leiden (1984), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985), the University of California, Los Angeles (1986), Stanford University (1986) and the University of California, Santa Cruz (1986). From 1987 to 1997 he held positions of postdoctoral fellow, lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and associate professor at the University of Melbourne. Ordained an Anglican deacon and priest at St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne in 1999, he has served on the staff of St Mark’s Camberwell and St Hilary’s Kew. He holds a BTh (Hons), and DipTh from the Australian College of Theology and in 2016 completed a ThD with the Australian College of Theology and Melbourne School of Theology with a thesis entitled “Qur’ānic Theology and Biblical Reflexes in the Qur’ān”. He is now vicar of Oaktree Anglican Church in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Durie has published articles and books on the Acehnese language of Aceh, Indonesia, linguistics, and interfaith relations. He was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1992.
Works
Journal articles
- Durie, Mark. “The So-Called Passive of Acehnese.” Language. Linguistic Society of America, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Mar., 1988), pp. 104–113 – Available at Jstor: http://www.jstor.org/stable/414788
- (Archive) “(Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde).” Foris Publications, 1985. ISBN 9067650749, ISBN 978-9067650748.
- Durie, Mark. “Proto-Chamic and Acehnese mid vowels : towards Proto-Aceh-Chamic.” 1988. (Archive)
- Durie, Mark. “Control and decontrol in acehnese.” [sic] Australian Journal of Linguistics. Volume 5, Issue 1, 1985. p. 43-53. Published online: 14 August 2008. DOI:10.1080/07268608508599335.
- Durie, Mark. “Grammatical Relations in Acehnese.” Studies in Language, 1987. vol. 11, no2, pp. 365–399. ISSN 0378-4177. DOI 10.1075/sl.11.2.05dur.
Books
- Daud, Bukhari and Mark Durie. Kamus bahasa Aceh (Volume 151 of Pacific linguistics). Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1999. ISBN 0858835061, 9780858835061.
- The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom. Deror Books, 2010.
Opinion articles
- Creed of the Sword. (Archive) The Australian. 23 September 2006.
- Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God?
- From Broken Hill to Martin Place: Individual Jihad Comes to Australia, 1915 to 2015