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Quarterly Essay 22 Voting for Jesus

Author : Amanda Lohrey
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921825219
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 22 Voting for Jesus written by Amanda Lohrey and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2006-06-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Hillsong Church to the Family First Party, Australia appears to be experiencing an evangelical revival. In Voting for Jesus, Amanda Lohrey investigates that revival – its shape and scope, and what it means for the mainstream churches and the nation's politics. She talks to young believers and analyses the machinations of the Christian Right. She discusses, with humour and insight, the appeal of the megachurch, the changing image of Jesus and the political theories of George Pell and Peter Jensen. Voting for Jesus is also an essay about the use and abuse of religion in party politics. Examining the success of Family First, Lohrey argues that Christians in politics have far less influence than they would like – the government uses them when convenient and otherwise disregards them. Blending individual interviews with political argument, she makes a subtle case for the blessings of secularism and the variety of spiritual encounters it makes possible. ‘[W]hen Peter Costello waved his arms in the Hillsong auditorium and Steve Fielding was catapulted into the Senate, Christian spokesmen were quick to claim that Australia was undergoing a religious revival, though no-one thought to relay this information to Pope Benedict XVI. In August 2005, the Pope issued a dire warning: mainstream Christianity was dying out more quickly in Australia than anywhere else in the world.’ —Amanda Lohrey, Voting for Jesus ‘What a treat it was to read Voting for Jesus! Amanda Lohrey provides a rich analysis of the intersection of Christianity and politics at the 2004 election: full of humanity, sincerity and salience.” —Tim Costello ‘When I first saw this Quarterly Essay in the National Library Bookshop, I thought impatiently, "What the hell does Amanda Lohery know about Christianity?" The unequivocal answer is "A damn sight more than I expected!" I found the essay insightful, provocative, and at times quite brilliant.’ —Paul Collins Amanda Lohrey has written two Quarterly Essays, Groundswell: The Rise of the Greens and Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia. She is also the author of the novella Vertigo and of the short story collection, Reading Madame Bovary, which won the Fiction Prize and the Steele Rudd Short Story Award in the 2011 Queensland Literary Awards. Her novel, The Philosopher's Doll, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In 2012 she was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award.

Believers

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868408316
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Believers written by Paul Collins and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with World Youth Day 2008.

Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion

Author : Patrick Michel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004216413
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion written by Patrick Michel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main goal of the second issue of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, devoted entirely to religion and politics, is precisely to question the sense of a reconstruction of the mutual and simultaneous relations between these two spheres of social life. What does this process mean and where is it taking us?

Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion

Author : Patrick Michel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900420928X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion written by Patrick Michel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main goal of the second issue of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, devoted entirely to religion and politics, is precisely to question the sense of a reconstruction of the mutual and simultaneous relations between these two spheres of social life. What does this process mean and where is it taking us?

Quarterly Essay 30 Last Drinks

Author : Paul Toohey
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921825294
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 30 Last Drinks written by Paul Toohey and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2008-06-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mal Brough and John Howard announced the Northern Territory intervention in mid-2007, they proclaimed a child abuse emergency. In this riveting piece of reportage and analysis, Paul Toohey unpicks the rhetoric of emergency and tracks progress. One year on, have children been saved? Will Labor continue with the intervention? What are the reasons for the social crisis - the neglect and the violence - and how might things be different? Toohey argues that the real issue is not sexual abuse, but rather a more general neglect of children. He criticises the way both white courts and black law have viewed violent crime by Aboriginal men. He examines the permit system and the quarantining of welfare money and argues that due to Labor's changes to these, the intervention is now effectively over - though the crisis persists. In Last Drinks, Paul Toohey offers the definitive account of how the Territory intervention came about and what it has achieved. ‘What if the greatest threat to a home came not from outside its walls but from within? Such was the charge levelled against Aborigines on 21 June 2007, the day the intervention was announced.’ —Paul Toohey, Last Drinks Paul Toohey is chief northern correspondent for the Australian. He won a Walkley Award for his first Quarterly Essay, Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention. He was previously a senior writer at the Bulletin and is the author of three books: God’s Little Acre, Rocky Goes West and The Killer Within. He has won the Graham Perkin journalist of the year award and a Walkley award for magazine feature writing. He lives in Darwin.

The History Question

Author : Inga Clendinnen
Publisher : Quarterly Essay
ISBN 13 : 1921825227
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The History Question written by Inga Clendinnen and published by Quarterly Essay. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third Quarterly Essay for 2006, Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do we want and need? Should our historians be producing the "objective record of achievement" that the Prime Minister has called for? For Clendinnen, historians cannot be the midwives of national identity and also be true to their profession: history cannot do the work of myth. Clendinnen illuminates the ways in which history, myth and fiction differ from one another, and why the differences are important. In discussing what good history looks like, she pays tribute to the human need for story telling but notes the distinctive critical role of the historian. She offers a spirited critique of Kate Grenville's novel The Secret River, and discusses the Stolen Generations and the role of morality in history writing. This is an eloquent and stimulating essay about a subject that has generated much heat in recent times: how we should record and regard the nation's past. "Who owns the past? In a free society, everyone. It is a magic pudding belonging to anyone who wants to cut themselves a slice, from legend manufacturers through novelists looking for ready-made plots, to interest groups out to extend their influence." —Inga Clendinnen, The History Question

Money Doctrines Ð Traditional versus Word of Faith Teaching

Author : Kieran James
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244953880
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book Money Doctrines Ð Traditional versus Word of Faith Teaching written by Kieran James and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a significant volume of scholarly work conducted recently within the accounting literature on the role of money, investment and accounting within religious organizations. However, scant attention has been paid to modern Pentecostal understandings of money, investment and accounting. In this book we study the major money-related doctrines of American husband-and-wife televangelist Faith Teachers Kenneth and Gloria Copeland. We find the unique Copeland interpretation of ÒTreasures in HeavenÓ (Matthew 6:20) to be a complete inversion of the traditional or Anglican theological interpretation. While the traditional interpretation is that this verse refers to future rewards available after death, the Copelands argue that it refers to rewards existing now in the heavenly places in what they refer to as the believerÕs Òheavenly bank accountÓ. The Copelands also believe in a literal Òhundredfold returnÓ on monetary and other gifts made Òfor the gospelÕs sakeÓ (Mark 10:29-30).

Money Doctrines: Traditional versus Word of Faith Teaching

Author : Kieran James
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 024405469X
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Money Doctrines: Traditional versus Word of Faith Teaching written by Kieran James and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a significant volume of scholarly work conducted recently within the accounting literature on the role of money, investment and accounting within religious organizations. However, scant attention has been paid to modern Pentecostal understandings of money, investment and accounting. In this book we study the major money-related doctrines of American husband-and-wife televangelist Faith Teachers Kenneth and Gloria Copeland. We find the unique Copeland interpretation of "Treasures in Heaven" (Matthew 6:20) to be a complete inversion of the traditional or Anglican theological interpretation. While the traditional interpretation is that this verse refers to future rewards available after death, the Copelands argue that it refers to rewards existing now in the heavenly places in what they refer to as the believer's "heavenly bank account". The Copelands also believe in a literal "hundredfold return" on monetary and other gifts made "for the gospel's sake" (Mark 10:29-30).

Worship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal Congregations

Author : Tanya Riches
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004400273
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Worship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal Congregations written by Tanya Riches and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal Congregations: (Re)imagining Identity in the Spirit conducts ethnographic research into three Australian Pentecostal congregations with Aboriginal senior leadership pastor couples.

Handbook of Scientology

Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004330542
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Scientology written by James R. Lewis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Scientology brings together a collection of fresh studies of the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religions. In recent years, increasing scholarly attention has been directed at the Church of Scientology, resulting in a small tsunami of new scholarship. We have finally reached a point in time where a book on Scientology need not restrict itself to basics. Thus, for example, the historical chapters in the present volume are not really aimed at providing elementary facts on Scientology’s background, but, rather, focus on understanding how the Church of Scientology developed over the years. In short, the Handbook of Scientology will provide a wealth of new information on a topic that one might otherwise have thought exhausted. Contributors are Matthew Charet, Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Carole M. Cusack, Bernard Doherty, Marco Frenschkowski, Liselotte Frisk, Kjersti Hellesøy, Don Jolly, James R. Lewis, Renee Lockwood, András Máté-Tóth, Gábor Dániel Nagy, Johanna Petsche, Erin Prophet, Susan Raine, David G. Robertson, Mikael Rothstein, Lisbeth Tuxin Rubin, Nicole S. Ruskell, Shannon Trosper Schorey, Michelle Swainson, Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen, Hugh G. Urban, Donald A. Westbrook, and Benjamin Zeller.

Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004425799
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins Rocha, Hutchinson and Openshaw argue that Australia has made and still makes important contributions to the ways in which Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianities have developed worldwide.

Asking Big Questions

Author : Grenville J. R. Kent
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630873179
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Asking Big Questions written by Grenville J. R. Kent and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do educated urban people think about God, and why? What factors--logical, emotional, experiential, or intuitive--incline them towards belief or towards unbelief? How do they balance these factors? Why do many seem to be "swing voters," comfortable sitting on the fence, unmotivated to move far either way? What common ground do they share with Christianity? What are their objections to Christian belief and practice, and their misunderstandings? Why do many people describe intuitive and emotional attraction to believing in God, but resist it intellectually? What apologetic approaches would make most sense, specifically to educated urban Australians? What media products do they enjoy and trust? And how should these insights influence apologetics? Grenville Kent asks these questions in one Australian demographic to help target Big Questions, a documentary film series for Christian apologetics. Anyone interested in apologetics, evangelical media, and the application of marketing research to evangelism will be interested in this study.

Climate Politics And The Climate Movement In Australia

Author : Verity Burgmann
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522861350
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Climate Politics And The Climate Movement In Australia written by Verity Burgmann and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is the hottest topic of the twenty-first century and the climate movement a significant global social movement. This book examines the broad context of Australian climate politics and the place of the climate movement within it. Acting ‘from above’ are the most powerful forces—corporations and governments, both Labor and Coalition—with the media framing the issues. Climate movement actors ‘in the middle’ include the Australian Greens, major environmental and climate organisations, think-tanks, academics, public intellectuals and the union movement. Acting ‘from below’ are the numerous local climate action groups and various regional and national networks. This lowest level is the primary location of the climate movement; and grassroots mobilisation the source of its vitality. To advocate a safe climate and climate justice, the book ends by offering a vision for an alternative Australia based upon the principles of social equity and environmental sustainability.

Hate Speech and Freedom of Speech in Australia

Author : Katharine Gelber
Publisher : Federation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781862876538
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book Hate Speech and Freedom of Speech in Australia written by Katharine Gelber and published by Federation Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hate speech laws have existed in various forms in Australia for well over a decade. Unlike other countries, such as the United States and Canada, they have not faced constitutional hurdles to their existence. The general acceptance of hate speech laws in Australia opens intellectual space for the exploration of a range of interesting questions regarding the laws' operation, the underlying values they pursue and the context within which hate speech is occurring. How should the regulation of hate speech be balanced against Australia's political and cultural commitment to freedom of speech? Who are the hate speakers and how does their speech manifest? What types of hate speech are targeted by existing laws? How are these laws enforced? How can the laws be changed to improve governments' response to hate speech? How does the emergence of bills of rights affect the regulation of hate speech? Drawing on a broad range of academic and practical experts, this book addresses these questions. The essays in first part of this book outline the landscape within which hate speech regulation occurs. They include consideration of the legal, policy and historical context for vilification, the ways in which the language of hatred is changing, and a new look at the longstanding debate about the tension between freedom of speech and hate speech as a conflict between liberty and equality. In part two, the book considers the practice of hate speech regulation in a variety of Australian institutions and includes practical perspectives from the legal profession. In the final part the essays consider hate speech regulation within a broader human rights framework, taking into account the emergence of bills of rights in Australian states.

On Eagles' Wings

Author : Michael Parsons
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556351275
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book On Eagles' Wings written by Michael Parsons and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a volume of practical, scriptural, and contemporary essays exploring the idea of strength in weakness in the context of Christian life and ministry. Biblical scholars, theologians, and Christian ministry practitioners have thought about the biblical paradigm of strength in weakness within their own areas of expertise and interest. Biblical scholars encounter the idea of strength in weakness in both Old and New Testament passages that suggest human weakness and divine strength. The people of Israel, a community reliant on grace, exemplify this theme. Mark's portrayal of Jesus Christ indicates that it is in weakness that Christ saves. Paul's paradigm for ministry suggests the same. Theological chapters engage this teaching of strength in weakness as it surfaces in Luther's life, in Calvin's view of prayer, in Barth's theology, and ultimately in the divine dealing with the world. Pastoral theology demonstrates this theme's foundational significance for a suffering church in its mission to the world as well as the theme's importance for preaching the leading of God's people today. Drawing together scholars from fields of biblical studies, systematic theology, and pastoral theology, On EaglesÕ Wings questions an overemphasis on power in today's church. The authors propose various ways that ministry and mission may be best engaged with a biblical humility and with reliance on God's grace.

Mr Isherwood Changes Trains

Author : Victor Marsh
Publisher : Clouds of Magellan
ISBN 13 : 1742980694
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Mr Isherwood Changes Trains written by Victor Marsh and published by Clouds of Magellan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British expatriate writer Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) moved to America prior to the Second World War and lived more than half his life in California, writing for the Hollywood studios. Famous initially for the stories he wrote during the rise of the Nazis, he attracted a second wave of interest in the 1970s with his 'out' autobiography 'Christopher and His Kind' (1976). But much less is known about Isherwood's writing during his forty years as a student of a guru from the Ramakrishna Order. In Mr Isherwood Changes Trains, Victor Marsh interrogates the assumptions and prejudices that have combined to disparage the sincerity of Isherwood's religious life. Marsh elucidates those features of Vedanta philosophy that enabled Isherwood to integrate the various aspects of his dharma: his vocation as a writer, and a spirituality not predicated on the repudiation of his sexuality. Marsh details the heartfelt search for a 'home-self' that found expression in later works such as 'My Guru and his disciple' and in what is seen as Isherwood's finest novel, 'A single man' (1964).

Secularisation in the Christian World

Author : Michael Snape
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317058291
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Secularisation in the Christian World written by Michael Snape and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of modernity to secularise has been a foundational idea of the western world. Both social science and church history understood that the Christian religion from 1750 was deeply vulnerable to industrial urbanisation and the Enlightenment. But as evidence mounts that countries of the European world experienced secularising forces in different ways at different periods, the timing and causes of de-Christianisation are now widely seen as far from straightforward. Secularisation in the Christian World brings together leading scholars in the social history of religion and the sociology of religion to explore what we know about the decline of organised Christianity in Britain, Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. The chapters tackle different strands, themes, comparisons and territories to demonstrate the diversity of approach, thinking and evidence that has emerged in the last 30 years of scholarship into the religious past and present. The volume includes both new research and essays of theoretical reflection by the most eminent academics. It highlights historians and sociologists in both agreement and dispute. With contributors from eight countries, the volume also brings together many nations for the first consolidated international consideration of recent themes in de-Christianisation. With church historians and cultural historians, and religious sociologists and sociologists of the godless society, this book provides a state-of-the-art guide to secularisation studies.