Rachael Kohn

Rachael Linda Kohn is a Canadian-born Australian author, broadcaster, and public intellectual. From July 1992 to December 2018 she produced and presented programs on religion and spirituality for ABC Radio National, including The Religion Report, Religion Today, The Ark and, principally, The Spirit of Things from 1997 to December 2018. Kohn retired from the ABC in December 2018.

Early life and education Rachael Linda Kohn the child of a Holocaust survivors, as were many of her friends. Both of her parents are from Czechoslovakia. She also studied Buddhism in both degrees. She broadcast programs on Radio National and was senior religion producer, working across several programs, including The Religion Report, Religion Today, and The Spirit of Things. She created, produced, and presented The Spirit of Things from 1997 until 2018. "Coffee, Sex and Other Addictions: Health fads of the 19th Century" (2002), She produced, for The Spirit of Things, "The Monk and the Modern Girl" (2003).

Other roles and activities Kohn is co-founder, and was vice chair of (from 2012 until at least 2019), the International Association of Religion Journalists.

In 2005, she was listed in The Australian as one of "Australia's Top 50 Intellectuals.

Kohn was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 2019.

On 14 May 2024, she was made Doctor of the University by the Australian Catholic University.

Publications In addition to her books, The New Believers: Re-imagining God (2003) and Curious Obsessions in the History of Science and Spirituality (2007), on the online blog Pirate Wires.