Australian Soul: Religion and Spirituality in the 21st CenturyCambridge University Press, 15. mar. 2007 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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... issues of religion and public policy . Finally , chapter 9 revisits the question of hope in the light of the analysis of Australia's religious and spiritual life . In addition to data from a variety of sources and my own experiences , I ...
... issues of religion and public policy . Finally , chapter 9 revisits the question of hope in the light of the analysis of Australia's religious and spiritual life . In addition to data from a variety of sources and my own experiences , I ...
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... issues . I am also indebted to my postgraduate students who met in a monthly proseminar to discuss issues related to Australia's religious and spiritual life . Several have read sections of the manuscript of this book , in particular ...
... issues . I am also indebted to my postgraduate students who met in a monthly proseminar to discuss issues related to Australia's religious and spiritual life . Several have read sections of the manuscript of this book , in particular ...
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... issues in Australia ( Maddox 2005 ) . Rather , in secu- lar societies religion and spirituality have seeped out of the monopolistic control of formal organisations like churches . This has resulted in vastly increased diversity of both ...
... issues in Australia ( Maddox 2005 ) . Rather , in secu- lar societies religion and spirituality have seeped out of the monopolistic control of formal organisations like churches . This has resulted in vastly increased diversity of both ...
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... issues of concern are different . Diversity has brought some ideas and practices that challenge acceptability . Old alliances between government and a few religious groups break down as a wider diversity of religious belief and spir ...
... issues of concern are different . Diversity has brought some ideas and practices that challenge acceptability . Old alliances between government and a few religious groups break down as a wider diversity of religious belief and spir ...
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... issues such as the death of one's parents , the breakdown of a marriage , or involvement in drugs and alcohol . By going through the Purification Rundown , which may take around four weeks , participants find that they not only have a ...
... issues such as the death of one's parents , the breakdown of a marriage , or involvement in drugs and alcohol . By going through the Purification Rundown , which may take around four weeks , participants find that they not only have a ...
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Spirituality religion persons and society | 16 |
Spirituality religion and hope | 18 |
Australia has become a multifaith society | 116 |
Having to share | 117 |
Postecumenical times | 119 |
Critical changes in the social structure of Australia | 122 |
Postpatriarchal times | 126 |
New forms of social capital and cohesion | 127 |
The mainstream From Christendom to comfortable on the margins | 129 |
The move to the margins | 130 |
Producing religion and spirituality | 19 |
Spirituality and the sacred | 25 |
A communal and social hope in the heart | 27 |
A methodological reflection | 28 |
Conclusion | 30 |
Qualities of Australian religion and spirituality | 31 |
Religious institutions | 33 |
Origins of Australian spiritual and religious life | 38 |
Comparing religious institutions | 43 |
Pre1947 Australian religion and spirituality | 45 |
Organised religion in Australia | 47 |
Conclusion | 48 |
Quantities of Australian religion and spirituality | 49 |
Religious identity | 50 |
Increased diversity | 52 |
Buddhists Muslims and Hindus | 55 |
Other religious groups | 58 |
Other world religions in Australia | 60 |
Nature religions | 61 |
Multiple religious identities | 63 |
Decline of British protestantism | 65 |
Catholic growth | 67 |
Other demographic dimensions | 68 |
Education | 69 |
Income and occupation | 70 |
Demographic implications for the future | 72 |
National comparisons | 74 |
Religion and spirituality in social surveys | 77 |
Declines in participation | 78 |
Who attends church? | 79 |
Retention rates | 80 |
Normal levels of religious practice | 83 |
Impact of belief and attendance | 84 |
Conclusion | 85 |
Spirituality and cultural change | 86 |
Implications of cultural change | 96 |
Impact on clergy | 99 |
Implications for theology | 101 |
Postbook times | 103 |
Conclusion | 105 |
The changing social location of religion and spirituality | 106 |
Further disentangling church and state | 107 |
Postcolonial times | 109 |
Postnational times | 111 |
A consumerist society | 114 |
The comforts of marginalisation | 137 |
Two patterns of marginalisation | 139 |
The marginalisation of denominational and sectarian groups | 140 |
Conclusion | 142 |
Religion and spirituality respond to change | 143 |
Religious revitalisation in Australia | 144 |
Examples of revitalisation in civic rites | 148 |
Megachurches | 149 |
The rise of highdemand religious groups | 154 |
Fundamentalisation | 156 |
Fundamentalism and withdrawal from society | 158 |
Spiritual innovation | 162 |
Theological innovation in postmodernity | 166 |
God in twentyfirstcentury Australia | 169 |
Conclusion | 171 |
Religion spirtuality and Australian social policy | 172 |
How religion returned to the social policy agenda | 173 |
Religion and the social policy discourse | 175 |
How religion relates to social policy | 176 |
The promotion of moderate Islam | 178 |
Social policy as protection from religious excesses | 179 |
Religion and education | 181 |
Religion in the census and social policy | 183 |
Religion as a source of social policy | 185 |
Food health and religion | 186 |
Employment law and religion | 187 |
Religion as a shaper and implementer of social policy | 190 |
Regulating religions in postmodern secularity | 192 |
Managing religious diversity | 193 |
Managing religious diversity around the world today | 195 |
Social policy and the religious Rights transition from quietism to activism | 196 |
Internal diversity | 197 |
Religious competition | 198 |
Living with and utilising diversity | 201 |
Conclusion | 202 |
Signs of hope in the twentyfirst century | 204 |
Core drivers | 205 |
Signs of hope | 208 |
Grassroots interfaith activities | 210 |
Interspirituality and bricolage | 211 |
Religion and politics | 212 |
Further reading | 213 |
References | 219 |
Index | 228 |
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Stran 12 - It is our secular society realising that it has been running on empty, and has to restore itself at a deep, primal source, a source which is beyond humanity and yet paradoxically at the very core of our experience.
Stran 99 - This is not the relegation to the private of the once public by the market or by the forces of secularisation. It is a shift in the zone of the production of religious goods and services as well as the zone of consumption. It is a turning away from one form of...
Stran 196 - It is in the nature of the religious vision to seek not only the better person but also the better society. It is in the nature of religious conviction to deem it necessary to force some to conform so that the ideal may be achieved even if that forced conformity is to have to live in a system that permits free choice.
Stran 80 - becoming unchurched is not at all a matter of Christian belief, nor of socialisation, nor of friendship within the congregation, nor of habit' (2004: 51), thus undermining most of the usual explanations.
Stran 178 - One of the most important assets of the United States in their struggle against terrorism is the Muslim community of America. Many American Muslims have long been aware that they can practice their religion far more creatively in the USA than they could in their countries of origin' (Armstrong in Rauf 2004: xii).
Stran 10 - Aboriginal people. lt is a complex network of knowledge, faith and practices that derive from stories of creation, and which dominates all spiritual and physical aspects of Aboriginal life. The Dreaming sets out the structures of society, the rules for social...
Stran 196 - From this view Islamists seem like Cromwell; fundamentalists and pro-familists go hand in hand; liberals generate sweet confusion until pressed and then come out fighting using all the power and privilege they can muster.