Keywords: Religion And Violence
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael McVeigh
- 11 December 2006
A new Generation Y study says that today's young people have grown up in a very skeptical and cynical society. Therefore they're isolated, and don’t feel too good about believing in, or belonging to, anything.
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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 11 December 2006
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Instead of all those Baroque paintings of the baby Jesus in arms, the work of art that best captures the spirit of Christianity is arguably Andres Serrano's controversial Piss Christ.
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RELIGION
- Daniel Madigan
- 18 September 2006
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Pope Benedict is learning the hard way that interreligious dialogue these days is a complex and delicate business. Though he has now affirmed his respect for Muslims, his decision to quote a polemical medieval text against Muhammad and the Qur’an during a lecture last week remains puzzling.
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AUSTRALIA
- Katharina Weiss
- 07 August 2006
To fight wars we have to deny our own and others’ humanity. Israeli Defence Force commander General Dan Halutz was asked about his feelings when he piloted a plane dropping bombs on people in Gaza in 2002. His reply was that he felt 'a light bump to the plane'.
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ENVIRONMENT
Australia is in a one-in-a-century drought. In India, water is always scarce and the conflict over its management rife—a precise illustration of what not to do. Maybe we can learn?
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AUSTRALIA
- Tom Griffiths
- 05 July 2006
Historians are fighting a mini war over frontier history and the number of Aboriginal dead. Tom Griffiths argues for a different approach.
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RELIGION
- Dan Madigan, Abdullah Saeed and Frank Brennan
- 24 June 2006
Dan Madigan, Abdullah Saeed and Frank Brennan examine religious conflict in Australia
as part of the Jesuit Seminar Series.
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RELIGION
- Abdullah Saeed
- 24 June 2006
September 11, 2001 changed the life of Muslims in the West, including Australia. Muslims in Australia today, their beliefs, values, practices and institutions, are under the microscope. There is a fear among many Muslims in Australia that is difficult to explain. In turn, Muslims are feared by many non-Muslim Australians, many of them Christians.
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MEDIA
- Jan Forrester
- 05 June 2006
Conventional journalism portrays war as a zero sum game, a series of violent exchanges between contending parties. ‘War reporting’ requires clear winners and losers, and the media interprets the events contributing to conflict accordingly.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 14 May 2006
In this edited extract from the 2006 Manning Clark Lecture, ‘5 R’s for the Enlargers: Race, Religion, Respect, Rights and the Republic’, Frank Brennan focuses on respect.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael McGirr
- 11 May 2006
While Dan Brown and Mel Gibson can draw a crowd, Michael McGirr finds their stories still miss the mark.
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AUSTRALIA
Morag Fraser meets recent travellers to East Timor.
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