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Author : Philip Hughes
Publisher : Christian Research Associati
ISBN 13 : 0980827515
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Shaping Australia's Spirituality written by Philip Hughes and published by Christian Research Associati. This book was released on 2010 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Bouma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139459389
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (593 download)
Download or read book Australian Soul written by Gary Bouma and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Soul challenges the idea that religious and spiritual life in Australia is in decline. This fascinating book describes the character of religious and spiritual life in Australia today, and argues that, far from petering out, religion and spirituality are thriving. Gary Bouma, the leading expert on the state of religious life in Australia, provides the most up-to-date facts and figures and compares the 'tone' of Australian religious practices with those of other countries. Australians might be less vocal and more reticent about their religion than Americans are, but their religious and spiritual beliefs are no less potent. Australian Soul describes and analyses our religious and spiritual life in detail as well as providing a series of case studies that illustrate the range of practices and beliefs in Australia today. Australian Soul predicts a vital future for religion and spirituality.
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ISBN 13 : 9780511295324
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Australian Soul written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Possamai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000529614
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Religion and Change in Australia written by Adam Possamai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book offers a panoramic overview of the enduring significance of religion in modern Australian society. Applying sociological perspectives and contemporary theories of religion in society, it challenges conventional assumptions around the extent of secularisation in Australia and instead argues that religious institutions, groups, and individuals have proved remarkably adaptable to social change and continue to play a major role in Australian life. In doing so, it explores how religion intersects with a wide range of other contemporary issues, including politics, race, migration, gender, and new media. Religion and Change in Australia explores Australia’s unique history regarding religion. Christianity was originally imported as a tool of social control to keep convicts, settlers, and Australian Aboriginal peoples in check. This had a profound impact on the social memory of the nation, and lingering resentment towards the "excessive" presence of religion continues to be felt today. Freedom of religion was enshrined in Section 116 of the Australian Constitution in 1901. Nevertheless, the White Australia Policy effectively prevented adherents of non-Christian faiths from migrating to Australia and the nation remained overwhelmingly Christian. However, after WWII, Australia, in common with other western societies, appears to have become increasingly secularised, as religious observance declined dramatically. However, Religion and Change in Australia employs a range of social theories to challenge this securalist view and argues that Australia is a post-secular society. The 2016 census revealed that over half of the population still identify as Christian. In politics, the socially conservative religious right has come to exert considerable influence on the ruling Liberal-National Coalition, particularly under John Howard and Scott Morrison. New technologies, such as the Internet and social media, have provided new avenues for religious expression and proselytisation whilst so-called "megachurches" have been built to cater to their increasing congregations. The adoption of multiculturalism and increased immigration from Asia has led to a religiously pluralist society, though this has often been controversial. In particular, the position of Islam in Australia has been the subject of fierce debate, and Islamophobic attitudes remain common. Atheism, non-belief, and alternative spiritualities have also become increasingly widespread, especially amongst the young. Religion and Change in Australia analyses these developments to offer new perspectives on religion and its continued relevance within Australian society. This book is therefore a vital resource for students, academics, and general readers seeking to understand contemporary debates surrounding religion and secularisation in Australia.
Author : Gary D. Bouma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Australian soul : religion and spirituality in a the twenty-first century written by Gary D. Bouma and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Frame
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 1742240380
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Losing My Religion: Unbelief in Australia written by Tom Frame and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this challenging and provocative book, Tom Frame, one of Australia's best-known writers on religion and society, examines diminishing theological belief and declining denominational affiliation. He argues that Australia has never been a very religious nation but that few Australians have deliberately rejected belief - most simply can't see why they need to be bothered with religion at all. He contends that vehement campaigning against theistic belief is the product of growing disdain for religious fundamentalism and a vigorous commitment to personal autonomy. Losing My Religion contends tha.
Author : Timothy Stanley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137551380
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Religion after Secularization in Australia written by Timothy Stanley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion's persistent and new visibility in political life has prompted a significant global debate. One of this debate's key features concerns the nature and impact of secularization. This collection of essays draws together leading sociologists, historians, philosophers of religion, and political theorists in order to provide a broad and up-to-date account of religion after secularization. Contributors explore the meaning and conceptual legacies of religion, as well as the unique features of the Australian case such as religion as it relates to law, education, gender, media, and radical political movements. Intervening in the current debate, this book provides summative accounts of the historical, cultural, and legal interactions that have informed Australia’s relationship to religion and secularization. Contributors critically analyze and engage with secular political theory concerning the public sphere, while also dissecting deliberative politics and democratic practices. This book propels the debate over religion’s place in public life in new directions and promotes urgently needed public understanding.
Author : Philip J. Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781875223138
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Believe it Or Not written by Philip J. Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Mackay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781864590968
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Myth of an Australian Spirituality written by Hugh Mackay and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wayne Hudson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781525224317
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Australian Religious Thought written by Wayne Hudson and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides new perspectives on the relationship between religious thought and social reform in Australia. It argues that religious thought can be found in many intellectuals in Australia, both in the religiously inclined and in those who were not conventionally religious. Drawing together existing and new research, this book opens up new perspectives and re-thematises the field in six exploratory studies. Each study is revisionist in some respects. Shapes of disbelief are explored in intellectuals of many types. The concept of sacral secularity is used to complex and contest discussions of 'the secular' in Australia. Religious liberalism is interpreted as transnational and as often a source of social reform. Interactions between religious thought and philosophy are discussed in some detail, as is the development of theology, which has received relatively little attention from historians. Account is also taken of what might perhaps be called post-secular consciousness in many intellectuals. Taking religious thought more seriously suggests possible revisions to the way the national story has been told. There was more serious intellectual life in Australia than some historians have claimed, and a considerable part of it was in a broad sense 'religious'
Author : Andrew Singleton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350179574
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Freedoms, Faiths and Futures written by Andrew Singleton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do contemporary teenagers experience and understand religious, spiritual, gender and sexual diversity? How are their experiences mediated by where they go to school, their faith and their geographic location? Are their outlooks materialist, religious, spiritual, or do they have hybrid identities? Freedoms, Faiths and Futures: Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity offers powerful insight into how teenagers make sense of the world around them. Drawing on rich data from a major national study, this book creates new ways of understanding the complexity of young people's lives and how school education covering diversity best addresses their world. This book argues that school education focused on worldviews is founded on ways of thinking about young people that do not reflect the complexities of Generation Z's everyday experiences of diversity and their interactions with each other. It argues that certain kinds of education in schools can play a significant role in developing religious literacy, tolerance and positive attitudes to diversity.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004311459
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Christianity, Conflict, and Renewal in Australia and the Pacific written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural expressions of Christianity show great diversity around the globe. While scholarship has tended to consider charismatic practices in distinct geographical contexts, this volume advances the anthropology of Christianity through ethnographically rich, comparative insights from across the Australia-Pacific region. Christianity, Conflict, and Renewal in Australia and the Pacific presents new perspectives on the performative dynamics of Christian belief, conflict, and renewal. Addressing experiences of cultural and spiritual renewal, contributors reveal how tensions can arise between spiritual and political expressions of culture and identity, opening up alternative spaces for spiritual realization and religious change. These local processes further mobilize responses of individuals and groups to state forces and political reforms, in turn, influencing the shape of translocal and transnational Christian practices. Contributors are: Diane Austin-Broos, John Barker, Alison Dundon, Yannick Fer, Kirsty Gillespie, Jessica Hardin, Rodolfo Maggio, Fiona Magowan, Gwendoline Malogne-Fer, Debra McDougall, Joel Robbins, Carolyn Schwarz, and John Taylor.
Author : Viktor Zander
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110179811
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Identity and Marginality Among New Australians written by Viktor Zander and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems- both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.
Author : Philip Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Putting Life Together written by Philip Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary D. Bouma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780959691566
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Religious Factor in Australian Life written by Gary D. Bouma and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer Irene Teasdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646388519
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (885 download)
Download or read book Exploring Australian Spirituality written by Jennifer Irene Teasdale and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rainbow Spirit Elders
Publisher : Atf Press
ISBN 13 : 9781920691806
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (918 download)
Download or read book Rainbow Spirit Theology written by Rainbow Spirit Elders and published by Atf Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a source of genuine dialogue between Aboriginal and immigrant Christians who enjoy a rich life on what was once Aboriginal land.
