Keywords: Religious Symbols
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AUSTRALIA
- Tom Cranitch
- 28 April 2008
16 Comments
With Anzac Day over, and the 100th anniversary of the
Gallipoli campaign just under a decade away, it's time to re-examine, re-frame, and hopefully tame the Anzac legend. You don't need to be an expert to understand that 'Anzac'
has a stranglehold over Australian public life.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 28 March 2008
3 Comments
Adherents of many religious groups are interviewed about their beliefs, practices, ethical framework and attitude to contemporary Australian society. Their stories often try to make points of contact between religious practice and Western culture.
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RELIGION
- Paul Collins
- 13 June 2007
8 Comments
We live in a world where the dogmas of economic rationalism and consumerism rule supreme. Rather than physical penance, today's asceticism involves a deliberate downsizing and an abandonment of infinite expansion as the measure of success.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 16 April 2007
11 Comments
The proliferation of flags, the singing of national anthems, and the desire to make Anzac Day emblematic of Australian values, all diminish the real humanity of those who have died, in order to allow another generation to inflate its image of itself.
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AUSTRALIA
- Julian Madsen
- 27 February 2007
1 Comment
Heated disputes arose in Egypt late last year following comments by the Culture Minister Farouk Hosni that the rising number of Egyptian women wearing the Islamic headscarf or hijab was a "regressive" trend.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Anthony Ham
- 23 December 2006
The Madrid barrio of Lavapiés has always been peopled with immigrants. The easy coexistence of tradition and diversity there is especially important, on a continent made suddenly uneasy by its burgeoning immigrant populations.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 18 September 2006
The unrelated cases of the Melbourne schoolgirl, and the Scottish goalie, both invoke two principles that are normally kept quite separate—the right of individual self-expression, and the right of religious freedom.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Tolkien’s epic resists allegory, but Dorothy Lee found it open to mythological and spiritual exploration.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Morgan, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert, Steven Columbus
- 07 July 2006
On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.
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EDUCATION
- Robin Jeffrey
- 04 July 2006
It is crucial that Australia increases its knowledge of Asia
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 04 July 2006
Andrew Hamilton surveys four books on power and the Catholic Church.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alana Harris
- 18 June 2006
Christine Trimingham Jack’s Growing Good Catholic Girls: Education and Convent Life in Australia brings back memories for Alana Harris.
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