Studies of Religion Australia

Read articles from The Tablet archive sorted by Studies of Religion topics. Some articles relate specifically to Australia. Most are more general and international in focus.

Aboriginal belief

• Altars to unknown gods

Australia and Religion

• Sydney’s unlikely allies
• Was the synod worth it?
• Children for export
• Everyone needs good neighbours
• Love is the Golden String
• Heresy down under
• Catholic universities in the modern world

Buddhism

• Torture in Tibet
• Light from the Buddha
• Under the Bodhi tree

Christianity

• Christians must make a difference
• Which way to read the Bible?
• Did Christ laugh?
• Free to find our deepest desires
• My life with Christ
• How Pentecost changed my life
• Break the chains and pray together
• Can I say Amen?
• Come let us worship
• What I saw in Assisi
• Anyone for confession?
• The challenge of heaven
• The Bible after the Shoah
• How the Resurrection makes sense
• The pull of God in a godless age

Confucianism

• A seed growing secretly in China's soil

Diversity and pluralism

• Christians and Jews: redeeming the past
• Break the chains and pray together
• Why convert the saved?
• A dialogue of head and heart
• ‘The whole truth is only found together’
• Sydney’s unlikely allies
• Inside a Muslim school
• Bradford - more than a race war
• What peace entails
• Ice Curtain in the East
• So why did it happen?
• The soul of Britain

Ecumenism and conversion

• An ecumenist gives thanks
• The path from hate to Love
• Hatred on the school run
• Ice Curtain in the East
• No new dogmas please

Inter-faith Dialogue

• Christians and Jews: redeeming the past
• Review of Beyond Belief: Islamic excursions among the converted people, by V.S. Naipaul
• Why convert the saved?

Hinduism

• Gandhi: behind the icon - No plaster saint
• An explosion of hatred in Asia
• The priest and the swami

Islam

• Islam’s turbulent critic
• Holy wars against the modern world
• Review of Beyond Belief: Islamic excursions among the converted people, by V.S. Naipaul
• The Islamic bogeyman
• Can the West and Islam live together?
• Islam's televangelist
• Inside the mind of militant Islam
• Holy wars against the modern world
• The price of Israel
• What Went Wrong?: the clash between Islam and modernity in the Middle East - book review

Judaism

• Christians and Jews: redeeming the past
• Jews revisit Jesus
• A dialogue of head and heart
• Gefilte fish at Easter
• Unfinished business
• The price of Israel
• These rays of light

Melanesian or Polynesian Religious Traditions

• Siren songs for sharks

Mission

• Islam's televangelist
• Inside the mind of militant Islam
• Children for export
• The web’s sacred corner
• Ring the bells of Heaven
• A seed growing secretly in China's soil
• Why convert the saved?
• The priest and the swami
• Dangerous evangelists
• Among the Copts

The nature and significance of religion

• The challenge of Heaven
• The storm of the Spirit
• Show atheists the Trinity
• Myra: the paper Devil
• Where was God on 11 September?
• U-turn on human rights
• The Lazarus light
• What is original sin?
• My life with Christ
• God's media image
• How Pentecost changed my life
• Slow up on saint-making

New Age

• A Christian reflection on the "New Age"
• Altars to unknown gods

Poverty and Social Justice

• Why Dives needs Lazarus
• The human family in the face of disaster
• Global winners, global losers
• It's time we shared
• Why I take heart

Religion and Biography

• Goodbye to Frank - Lord Longford
• Pius XII's radical moves
• Gandhi: behind the icon - No plaster saint
• A saint from Brooklyn - Dorothy Day
• Father Bede's breakthrough
• John Paul: a Christian disciple
• Breaking the mould - John Henry Newman
• Love is the Golden String - Father Bede Griffiths
• A saint woos the Celtic tiger - St Thérèse of Lisieux
• Ego Hugo, magician - Victor Hugo
• A Brand from the Burning: the life of John Wesley - book review
• God Still Matters - Herbert McCabe - book review
• Victorian ways of faith - John Henry Newman

Religion and Ethics

• A blessing before death
• The pressures on the planet
• Proud to be proud
• Once in Baghdad, what then?
• Weep for Jerusalem
• A violent end to a violent chapter
• The IRA turns the page
• The IRA's politicians
• These rays of light
• Understanding goodness in a culture of relative values

Bioethics

• A blessing before death
• We don't have to clone
• Scientists playing God

Marriage and divorce

• The Divorce Dilemma - book review
• The future of marriage
• Why marriage is best
• The matchmaker of Knock
• How marriage works
• Troubled parents, troubled kids
• Take your partners and sign

Sexual Ethics

• A blessing before death
• Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention - book review
• Sexual Chemistry: a history of the contraceptive pill - book review
• Sexuality in the seminary
• Fall-out from the sex bomb
• Body and soul
• How natural is NFP?

• Contraception and abortion

  • The pressures on the planet
  • It's time we shared
  • How natural is NFP?
  • Abortion? No thanks
  • The daughter I lost and found
  • Abortion? No thanks

Work Ethics

• Fast Food Nation

Religion and Ecology

• Why Dives needs Lazarus
• Don't let Bush bully us
• Global warming is a global warning
• Respect for the Earth
• Global winners, global losers
• Fruits of science
• All together to save the planet
• Seeds of hope
• Living lightly on the earth

Religion and Non-religion

• Deicide in north Oxford
• Show atheists the Trinity
• In tune with the earth
• An Intelligent Person's Guide to Atheism - book review
• The magic of Lorca

Religion and Literature

• Ego Hugo, magician - Victor Hugo
• The drama of Padre Pio
• A prophet for the new age
• Faith Seeking - book review
• John Donne: man of flesh and spirit - book review

Religion and Music

• Superstar for the Nineties
• Hitting the wrong note
• Listen to the music
• Requiem for Kieslowski

Religion and the Media

• God's media image
• Abused by the media
• It must be August
• Street cred for the Gospel
• Myra: the paper Devil
• Get real about the press
• The web’s sacred corner
• Why no mercy for the sisters?
• Eternal truths at Hogwarts
• An ethic for the Internet

Religious Rites/ Rituals

• Why marriage is best
• How Pentecost changed my life
• A Muslim at the feast
• Dining room dramas
• Sharing the Christ child
• The retreat that changed my life
• Anyone for confession?
• The whispering desert
• A shameless shopper
• Come let us worship
• The Virgin of El Rocío
• Can I say Amen?

Religion-State Relationships

• God and government
• The bullying of Russia’s Catholics
• What's the future for China's Catholics?
• Israel's Arabs fight back
• Where should the monarchy go now?
• Out of the pew into the street
• Can suicide ever be justified?
• Why the Pope should invite Mugabe
• ‘The President is ours!’
• China: can religion come out of the cold?

Religion and the Visual Arts

• Gaudí, the Blessed
• Art that lets the light in
• God in the gallery
• Beauty back on camera
• South Woodford
• Eternal truths at Hogwarts
• Superstar for the Nineties

Sacred writings and stories

Jewish Scriptures

• The Bible after the Shoah
• The Holocaust: purifying the memories
• Jews revisit Jesus
• Why convert the saved?

New Testament

• The Bible after the Shoah
• The challenge of heaven
• How Pentecost changed my life
• How the Resurrection makes sense
• Unfinished business
• Did Christ laugh?
• If God Spare My Life: William Tyndale, the English Bible and Sir Thomas More – a story of martyrdom and betrayal - book review
  

Teachers and Interpreters

• The priest and the swami
• Gandhi: behind the icon - No plaster saint
• Gandhi: behind the icon - Searcher for truth
• The legacy of Pope Paul VI
• The power of the pope: 1
• My papal scoop
• If God Spare My Life: William Tyndale, the English Bible and Sir Thomas More – a story of martyrdom and betrayal - book review
• The Pilgrimage of Grace: the rebellion that shook Henry VIII’s throne - book review
• An outsider seeks the method of Methodism’s founder - book review
• Pius XII and the Holocaust: understanding the controversy - book review
• From Inquisition to Freedom: Hans Küng and others - book review
• Cardinal Ratzinger: the Vatican's enforcer of the faith - book review
• History of Vatican II - book review

Shinto

• A saint for our season

Sikhism

Taoism

• A seed growing secretly in China's soil
• The cult that frightens the Communists

Ultimate questions

• The challenge of heaven
• The storm of the Spirit
• My life with Christ
• Free to find our deepest desires
• God and the Big Bang
• Made for heaven
• The universe - a divine recipe?
• Darwin: friend not foe
• God and the Big Bang
• A blessing before death

Ways of Holiness

• The web’s sacred corner
• Light from the Buddha
• Praying with a child
• Meditating with Jesus
• The power of prayer

Women and Religion

• The orphans who stand at God’s Window
• Keep using the M-word
• Women raise their voices
• True and false Madonnas
• Mary as Everywoman
• A wife in the presbytery
• God's little feather - Hildegard of Bingen
• It won't wash with women
• Sister of the Cross - Edith Stein
• The faith of a politician - Shirley Williams
• A most unusual saint - Dorothy Day
• Saints for today - Mother Teresa
• A priest called Ludmila

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