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Book Sinews of Sectarian Warfare

Download or read book Sinews of Sectarian Warfare written by Naomi Turner and published by Canberra : Australian National University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sinews of sectarian warfare

Download or read book Sinews of sectarian warfare written by Pauline Naomi Turner and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Wonderful and Confessedly Strange

Download or read book Wonderful and Confessedly Strange written by Bruce Kaye and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Choice and Religion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Bruce
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780198295846
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Choice and Religion written by Steve Bruce and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Choice and Religion provides a detailed critique of 'rational choice' to demonstrate that industrialisation has secularised the western world and that diversity, far from making religion more popular by allowing individuals to maximize their returns, undermines it. The claim that competition promotes religion is refuted with evidence from a wide variety of western societies. Bruce also examines the Nordic countries and the ex-communist states of eastern Europe to explore the consequences of different sorts of state regulation, and to show that ethnicity is a more powerful determinate of religious change than market structures. Where religion matters, it is not because individuals are maximising their returns but because it defines group identity and is deeply implicated in social conflict."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Payback

    Book Details:
  • Author : G. W. Trompf
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1994-07-14
  • ISBN : 0521416914
  • Pages : 574 pages

Download or read book Payback written by G. W. Trompf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-07-14 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious study, the first monograph on religion and "the logic of retribution," Professor Trompf shows how various aspects of "payback," both negative and positive, provide the best indices to an understanding of Melanesian views of life. The book explores the reasons why people "pay back" and opens up a whole new dimension in the cross-cultural study of human consciousness. The author conducts his readers through the most complex anthropological pageant on earth, illustrating his arguments from western New Guinea to Fiji.

Book A House Divided

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Bruce
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-03-19
  • ISBN : 0429677952
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book A House Divided written by Steve Bruce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main concern of this study, first published in 1990, is the part played by Protestantism in the complex of social processes of ‘secularization’. The book deals with the way in which Protestant schism and dissent paved the way for the rise of religious pluralism and toleration; and it also looks at the fragility of the two major responses to religious pluralism – the accommodation of liberal Protestantism and the sectarian rejection of the conservative alternative. It examines the part played by social, economic and political changes in undermining the plausibility of religion in western Europe, and puts forward the argument that core Reformation ideas must not be overlooked, particularly the repercussions of different beliefs about authority in competing Christian traditions.

Book Reason  Religion and the Australian Polity

Download or read book Reason Religion and the Australian Polity written by Stephen A. Chavura and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the concept of the secular state emerge and evolve in Australia and how has it impacted on its institutions? This is the most comprehensive study to date on the relationship between religion and the state in Australian history, focusing on the meaning of political secularity in a society that was from the beginning marked by a high degree of religious plurality. This book tracks the rise and fall of the established Church of England, the transition to plural establishments, the struggle for a public Christian-secular education system, and the eventual separation of church and state throughout the colonies. The study is unique in that it does not restrict its concern with religion to the churches but also examines how religious concepts and ideals infused apparently secular political and social thought and movements making the case that much Australian thought and institution building has had a sacral-secular quality. Social welfare reform, nationalism, and emerging conceptions of citizenship and civilization were heavily influenced by religious ideals, rendering problematic traditional linear narratives of secularisation as the decline of religion. Finally the book considers present day pluralist Australia and new understandings of state secularity in light of massive social changes over recent generations.

Book Interfaces Baptists and Others

Download or read book Interfaces Baptists and Others written by David Bebbington and published by Authentic Media Inc. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a collection of twenty-one essays discussing how Baptists throughout the world have related to other Christians and to other institutions and movements over the centuries. The theme of this collection of twenty-one essays, 'Baptists and Others', includes relations with other Christians and with other institutions and movements. What, the authors ask, has been the Baptist experience of engaging with different groups and developments? The theme has been explored by means of case studies, some of which are very specific in time and place while others cover long periods and more than one country. In the first half the contents are arranged by period. The first section examines early Baptists, the second nineteenth-century Baptists in Britain and America and the third Baptists in the twentieth century. The second half turns to various parts of the world. There is a section on Australia, another on New Zealand and a third on Asia and Africa. The overall picture is one of a complicated series of relationships as Baptists defined themselves as different from other bodies and yet, especially in the twentieth century, tried to co-operate in mission and ecumenical endeavour. 'Baptists are often regarded as enthusiastic separatists and unenthusiastic ecumenists. These essays, based on hard evidence rather than passing impressions, are a necessary correction to superficial prejudices and show the reality to be much more complex and nuanced, as well as varied over time and place. The book is a smorgasbord of delights. Yet, readers should avoid the temptation to pick and choose from the menu, ensuring rather that each offering is digested so they enjoy a balance and nutritious meal.' Derek Tidball

Book Conservative Protestant Politics

Download or read book Conservative Protestant Politics written by Steve Bruce and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1998-08-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely new study examines the place and nature of religion in industrial societies through a comparative analysis of conservative Protestant politics in a variety of 'first world' societies. Rejecting the popular, but misleading, grouping of diverse movements under the heading of 'fundamentalism', Bruce presents a series of detailed case studies of the Christian Right in the United States, Protestant unionism in Northen Ireland, anti-Catholicism in Scotland, Afrikaner politics in South Africa, and Empire Loyalism in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. He proceeds to examine the constraints that culturally diverse societies place on those who wish to promote political agendas based on religious ideas or on religiously informed ethnic identities.

Book God in the Landscape

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kerrie Handasyde
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2021-07-15
  • ISBN : 1350181498
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book God in the Landscape written by Kerrie Handasyde and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how creative writing gives voice to the drama and nuance of religious experience in a way that is rarely captured by sermons, reports, and the minutes of church meetings. The author explores the history of religious Dissent and Evangelicalism in Australia through a variety of literary responses to landscape, from both men and women, lay and ordained. The book explores transnational themes, along with themes of migration and travel across the Australian continent. The author gives insight into the literature of Protestant Dissent, concerned as it is with travel, belonging, and the intersection of national and religious identity. Much of the writing is situated on the road: a soldier returning from the Great War, a child on a lone adventure, a night-time journey through urban slums; all of these are in some way dependent on the theme of “walking with Jesus” as the Holy Land travelogues make explicit. God in the Landscape draws the links between landscape, literature, and spirituality with imagination and insight and is an important contribution to the historical study of religion and the environment.

Book Controversies in Education

Download or read book Controversies in Education written by Helen Proctor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the outcome of a colloquium series organized by The University of Sydney in which leading and emerging researchers were invited to name what they took to be the deep flaws at the heart of contemporary educational and policy and practice in Australia and globally — to voice their potentially ‘heretical’ views on what most urgently needs to be done. The chapters in this collection are paired to offer two takes on each topic, from supplementing to critiquing to countering and most points in between. The issues addressed in this volume include: the place of education in national and international marketplaces, mass testing and standardisation, the future of ‘multiculturalism’ in schools, the public funding of private schools, the complicated relationship between evidence and policy and the shifting politics of inequality. This book is based on the idea that recognising deep disagreements on big issues is a necessary accompaniment to imagining and developing productive ways forward.

Book Routledge Library Editions  Sociology of Religion

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Sociology of Religion written by Various and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 5475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set collects together in 19 volumes a wealth of texts on Sociology of Religion. An invaluable reference resource, it contains classic books on a wide range of topics, including: religion and violence, religion and family life, religion and society, culture and class.

Book A Path is Set

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frances O'Kane
  • Publisher : Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book A Path is Set written by Frances O'Kane and published by Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Therry - St Patricks Cathedral - Catholic history in Victoria - William Wardell -Bishop Goold - Masons.

Book National and English Review

Download or read book National and English Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Australian Encyclopaedia

Download or read book The Australian Encyclopaedia written by Bruce W. Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index to Australian Book Reviews

Download or read book Index to Australian Book Reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries supplied by University of Queensland Library Staff.

Book Report of the Council

    Book Details:
  • Author : Australian National University
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Report of the Council written by Australian National University and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: