Keywords: Spirit Of Religion
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RELIGION
In 2005, Pope Benedict targeted Australians as world leaders in Godlessness. However a recent book argues that Australian spirituality is understated, wary of enthusiasm, authority, and characterised by "a serious quiet reverence".
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Scott Stephens
- 02 April 2007
1 Comment
Scorsese’s is a fallen world. Like Cain, his tortured characters are driven further into the wastelands – whether the desert or the untamed streets of New York – by their acts of almost mythical violence, until any remaining vestige of hope or virtue is finally extinguished.
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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 27 February 2007
3 Comments
I must confess to growing bored very quickly when I hear that our real problem today is the erosion of spirituality, of belief in a deeper dimension of life, and the consequent rampant materialism. From a properly Christian perspective, the problem today is not materialism, but religion itself.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Leonard
- 27 February 2007
1 Comment
This is the full text of a speech given by Richard Leonard SJ in Queensland on spirituality and cinema, on the occasion of the opening of a new spirituality centre.
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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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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 27 February 2007
9 Comments
Every attempt to curb capitalism's voracious appetite, to ‘humanize’ its world-wide dominion, to place the world economy back in the service of the greater good, and thus temper its lust for unregulated growth, has not only failed, but has been assimilated.
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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 11 December 2006
2 Comments
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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AUSTRALIA
- Brendan Byrne
- 30 October 2006
3 Comments
Union officials and ministers of religion have much in common. No-one rings a union to tell them that they’re being treated well and paid decently. People only ring the union when they’re in trouble, and usually, by the time they get around to doing so, they’re in lots of trouble.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Steele
- 08 July 2006
Peter Steele reviews Terry Eagleton’s Sweet Violence: the Idea of the Tragic.
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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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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 24 June 2006
Professor Saeed and Fr Madigan make religious dialogue look easy. You would almost wonder what is the problem.
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RELIGION
Religion and art renew their relationship.
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