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Keywords: Mysticism

  • RELIGION

    Problems with Hitchens and Islam

    • Herman Roborgh
    • 09 October 2009
    3 Comments

    Modern atheists in the West and modernist Muslims in Islam are both abusing religion. Their discourse about God has been influenced by the popular demand for scientific empirical verification, and they have lost confidence in the ability of figurative language to open a way to truth.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Cinema: the secular temple

    • Barbara Creed and Richard Leonard
    • 18 March 2009
    3 Comments

    People have stopped going to church, but they still have an eye for and an expectation of the mystical. At the cinema, spectators, primed by the structures of the cinema itself, enter into a mystical experience with the shadow world being played out before them.

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  • INFORMATION

    The father of my soul

    • Joanna Thyer
    • 23 December 2008
    2 Comments

    Always on for a challenge, one of the first things Brian said to me that day was 'Who's your favourite character in the Bible?' and then 'We need women priests.'

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  • RELIGION

    Pieces of Terry

    • David Bunn
    • 01 September 2008
    2 Comments

    Terry told us he had advanced cancer of the prostate and was hoping to reach October. He was interested in joining the book group, which had three volumes of Proust to go. It seemed like it would be a close run thing.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    At odds with the 'celebrity science'

    • Marko Beljac
    • 23 July 2008
    9 Comments

    It is easier to get a job or get on the box doing superstring theory — the elusive 'theory of everything'. Progress in the field is being conducted without reference to empirical reality, revealing a market driven form of collective irrationality.

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  • RELIGION

    Bishop John Shelby Spong and consumer-friendly religion

    • Scott Stephens
    • 05 September 2007
    4 Comments

    Western Buddhism and Pentecostalism are sometimes criticised as self-indulgent forms of religion. Is Bishop Spong's Christian humanism any different?

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  • MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD

    The Zen master’s stirring spoon

    • Sarah Kanowski
    • 14 May 2006

    Margaret Dooley Award Winner, 2005: Sarah Kanowski on doing what needs to be done.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Kate Stowell, Lauren Hunt, Andrew Hamilton, Vincent O’Kane
    • 08 May 2006

    Reviews of the books: Portuguese Irregular Verbs; Dark nights of the soul;The people next door: Understanding Indonesia and Golden Threads: The Chinese in regional New South Wales.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Allan James Thomas, Gil Maclean, Siobhan Jackson
    • 23 April 2006

    Reviews of the films Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; Me and You and Everyone we Know; and The Magician.

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