Keywords: Spirit Of Religion
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AUSTRALIA
WYD pilgrims, like Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, know that in the act of travelling, they will learn things about themselves that they could never learn from books and sermons. Pilgrims are warriors whose battles are internal and spiritual.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris McGillion
- 16 July 2008
3 Comments
Australians see themselves more as a sunburnt people than as people of a sunburnt country. The Aboriginal smoking ceremony during the Papal Mass introduced a distinctive spirituality where reflection upon the physical environment is key. (April 1995)
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RELIGION
- James McEvoy
- 25 June 2008
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A teacher at a Catholic college joked that students turned to Madonna — the pop icon, not the religious one — for spiritual inspiration. Western society may seem to trivialise religion, but a culture of authenticity has developed in which people seek their own way and deepest fulfilment.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 26 May 2008
1 Comment
The text is from Professor Frank Brennan's 2008 Institute of Justice Studies Oration from 22 May 2008.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tom Cranitch
- 28 April 2008
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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
- Adrian Gibb
- 23 April 2008
11 Comments
Through a scientific imbalance, I, and about ten percent of my world's populace, am unable to experience anything beyond normal human intellectual capacity. We became mediators, lecturers, scientists and editors — anything which required a complete lack of spiritual moral parameters.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Shahram Akbarzadeh
- 01 April 2008
10 Comments
Recently it was widely reported that the Vatican is updating its 'list' of sins. Less publicity has been given to the re-interpretation projects of Islamic religious authorities — activities that challenge stereotypes of Islamic law as fixed and static.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Rosemary Crumlin
- 22 January 2008
At Turkey Creek, George Mung had carved a statue out of a piece of tree, a work of extraordinary beauty. Here it was, sitting on top of a hot-water system. 'You take it,' he said, 'I'll do another one.' (Eureka Street March 1991)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 13 December 2007
The recurrence of the ‘big' issues of politics, religion, and sexuality in Best Australian Essays 2007 is predictable enough. But the essays become more interesting when we see particular trends, such as surveillance and the individual's right to privacy, emerge in each.
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RELIGION
- James McEvoy
- 31 October 2007
7 Comments
Our secular age is schizophrenic, or better, deeply cross-pressured. People are not conscious of a need for religion, yet they are moved to know that there are dedicated believers, like Mother Teresa.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 05 June 2007
6 Comments
There can be no peace unless believers and atheists share an equal place in the public square of a free and democratic society.
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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 18 May 2007
26 Comments
The term “atheist” seems too respectable for the position occupied by commentators such as Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. They are anti-theists, opposed in principle to every last attachment to the divine, leading many to accuse them of a kind of inverted fundamentalism that lacks the core modern virtue of tolerance or respect for others.
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