Janet Morrissey began her teaching career with the NSW
Department of Education as an English/History teacher at
Blacktown Girls’ High School and completed it as a teacher of
Society & Culture, Studies of Religion and General Studies at
Edmund Rice College Wollongong. In the years between, she
raised four children and did post-graduate studies in Religious
Education at Australian Catholic University and Aboriginal
Studies at University of South Australia. As well as each edition
of Living Religion, she worked on the four books in the Out of the
Desert series. Janet has been involved with Studies of Religion
since the syllabus was in draft form.
Adam Taylor majored in Religious Studies at the University of
Sydney, with a focus on new religious movements, early Judaism
and the origins of Christianity. He later undertook postgraduate
studies in theology at the same university, before completing
Masters and Doctoral studies at the Australian Catholic
University. He has undertaken study at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem
and has published work in the area of Jewish-Christian relations.
He has been involved in the co-authorship of each of the previous
editions of Living Religion, as well as teaching the course for
nearly two decades. He is also a former senior HSC marker in
Studies of Religion. Adam holds an honorary fellowship at the
University of Melbourne.