Australian Religion Studies Review
Religion
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Articles in this Journal
Alternative Spiritualities, New Religious Movements, and Jediism in Australia
Australia, it could be argued, has a low rate of occurrence of religious intergroup hostility, and can be seen to have a diverse composition of alternative forms of religion; New Age and Neo-Pagan networks, New Religious Movements; and a n...
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Globalization, Social Capital and the Challenge to Harmony of Recent Changes in Australia's Religious and Spiritual Demography: 1947-2001
Religious organizations have been one of the primary engines of social capital in Western societies. Globalization, demographic change, the events of September 11 2001 and the Bali bombing have combined to raise concerns about the role of...
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New Forms of Religious Life and Civil Society in Australia: Fragmentation or Enrichment?
Acts of religiously inspired terrorism have revived fears about the fragmentation of civil society as religious diversity increases in Europe, the USA and Australia. This article proposes criteria for distinguishing between types of religi...
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Economic Globalization and Natural Law Theology
Economic globalization has always required ideological legitimation. In the first instance this legitimation was explicitly theological; today in Roman Catholic circles, it continues to be. The first modern legitimations of what would beco...
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Inter-faith Dialogue, Inter-cultural Dialogue: A Basis for Developing Global Security
The paper will build on the case made by Bhikhu Parekh (2002) for the development of inter-cultural dialogue as the most strategically rational response to addressing terrorism and its underlying causes. The author relates Parekh's case to...
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God Bless America: From a National Covenant to the Global War on Terror
Religion has always played a role in nation formation, and continues to do so even in these late-modern and post-sacred times. The overall argument of the essay is that the nation formation involves both deep continuities and radical disco...
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Global and Jihad and the Battle for the Soul of Islam
The violence of the present global crisis tends to obscure another battle that is presently underway within Islam, one "for the soul of the world's Muslims" (Schwartz, 2002:163). While the primary focus of much current research concerns th...
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Religious, Spiritual, Secular: Some American Responses to September 11
This paper examines particular examples of therapeutic and meaning-making responses to the events of September 11 from non-traditional religions and secular bodies, with comparative material from mainstream religions, in the United States...
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A Study of Church Libraries in Australia
Australia and the United States share many similarities, including British heritage, language, constitutional protection against state sponsored religion, and a predominately Christian population. This paper explores one outgrowth of our s...
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Identity and Religion in Contemporary Australia
This paper draws on data from two national surveys conducted by Edith Cowan University and NCLS Research to examine the nature of religious identification in Australia. It finds that the importance of religion to people's sense of identity...
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Of Fathers and Daughters - Biblical Studies as a Multi-Faith, Pluralist, and Multi-Cultural Project
The essay argues that biblical studies is a unique area for inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue and enrichment. The biblical narratives provide sacred stories for at least three of the world religions. The paper explores Jewish, Ch...
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'A rose by any other name?': Navigating through the Maze of Religious Dialogue Descriptions
The field of religious dialogue is fraught with a bewildering variety of names to describe essentially four basic interrelationships, namely: (a) interreligious dialogue, (b) intrareligious dialogue, (c) interideological dialogue, and (d)...
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Conference Report
The First Islamic Studies Seminar at the University of Queensland
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