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The Roadside as Sacred Space MORE...
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| The Spirit of the Child, written by David Hay and Rebecca Nye, (HarperCollins, London, 1998) provides an insightful historical grounding in theories of religion and spirituality. It then explores findings from the Children's Spirituality Project in light of these and makes some practical suggestions for developing children's spirituality in the classroom. MORE...
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| Dr Paul McQuillan, Director of Administrative Services with MORE...
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Some Comparisons between Australia and Canada MORE...
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| In 1995, Dr Neville Knight, a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Monash University, conducted a pilot study of the religious experience of teenagers in three Australian secondary schools in Melbourne, Victoria. One was a parent-controlled private school with an overt evangelical Christian orientation. A second school was an independent Anglican school. The third school was a state school in a lower socio-economic area with a high migrant population. Over 450 students between the ages of 14 and 17 completed a questionnaire. MORE...
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| According to the Australian Community Survey, one in three of all Australian adults say that the desire for a spiritual life is very important or the most important principle guiding their lives. Another third of all Australian adults say that it is important. But what do they mean?
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| There is substantial evidence that a huge change has occurred in Anglo-Celtic societies and, perhaps globally, in the very nature of religion since the 1960s. This paper, which was first given as a keynote address at an international conference of Christian Researchers meeting in Thailand in September 2001, seeks to define the nature of this change, summarise the evidence for it and to indicate how churches might respond to it. MORE...
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| Robert Wuthnow's research Growing Up Religious: Christians, Jews and Their Journeys of Faith (1999) explores the religious and spiritual experiences of Americans from a range of backgrounds in the context of 'anamnesis'. Wuthnow maintains that the past should be viewed as a living memory rather than a static one. While he is the first to acknowledge that nostalgia is often a case of the memory being 'rosier than the reality', it is by reflecting on the past, he holds, that people are able to develop their spirituality in the present. MORE...
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| One of the most influential TV shows in the last three years has been the TV drama SeaChange, shown on the ABC. Series 1 and 2 revealed that for the METRO mainland cities (the usual basis for reporting of TV ratings) the average weekly reach was 15% for Series 1 and 19.2% for Series 2 (representing an increase of 29% on Series 1). The Series 2 average weekly reach represents about 2.5 million people, a sizeable chunk of the viewing audience. The programme has attracted a significant cross-over group, people who may have previously watched 60 Minutes or a US theme comedy.
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