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Category: Concepts in Religious Thought Series
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Jesus Revolution: Film Propaganda or History?
Night 25 of the 2023 American Tour I am pleased for lives transformed in such a way that a person is taken out of a spiral downwards and into a stable and sustainable lifestyle, BUT does it have to be at the cost of understanding a bigger world? Take the film “Jesus Revolution” and Cannons’…
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Letter. Explaining Myself in the Hope of Dialogue, 29 January 2023
Dear American friends, I am leaving Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, tonight, for a country I have critically admired my whole life. It is the second trip, the last in 30 years (1991-1992). An intelligent conversation, the last few days, has indicated to me that I need to clarify where I am coming from as an American-Australian…
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HA Inc. Medium Publication. A Critical Review of 2022 Theos Annual Lecture by Tom Holland
A Critical Review of 2022 Theos Annual Lecture by Tom Holland, published by Humanist Australia Inc. on the Medium platform. Follow the link: https://medium.com/australian-humanist/a-critical-review-of-2022-theos-annual-lecture-by-tom-holland-d4268e11e7c0
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Explaining Neville’s Historiography (Dr Neville Buch ABN 86703686642)
In a conversation with one of the members in the international Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Mathematics Facebook Group, it came to me how I can explain my historiography. The context here is community education and research, but the university academics have missed much in the significance of my work for their own historical conclusions.…
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The United States Tour: American Educationalist Models in an Australian State 1942-2022
Neville Buch, Ph.D., PHA (Qld) The University of Queensland The abstract for the Australian and New Zealand Studies Association of North America is my invitation for interviews, conversations, and seminar talks across the United States in February 2023. For a century, thinkers in Queensland, imported American models for educationalist theory and practice. The story…
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Cannons’ Hurricane (2022) and an Honest Conversation on Pentecostal Sociology and Theology
I am quite excited to find Cannons’ Hurricane (2022) on YouTube. It opens up an honest conversation on Pentecostal Sociology and Theology in the year 2023 among those interested in the related history of popular culture studies. We are in a cosmic shift for Americanised and populist Christianity. The only way forward for…
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Neo-Orthodoxy Today from Historical Legacy
Introduction Today, we hear stories of Orthodox Judaism, and in this recent article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, we learn that ‘new orthodoxy’ is a ‘thing’. Image: Online story, Sylvia Goodman. ‘Alternative’ or ‘Sham’? Yeshiva U. Created a New LGBTQ Club — but Won’t Recognize the One That Sued, The Chronicle of Higher…
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More Than This: “I could feel at the time there was no way of knowing” (Nihilism but beyond it)
Rorty Music: Nihilism but beyond it Fallen leaves in the night on the stable sea tide… I could feel at the time There was no way of knowing Fallen leaves in the night Who can say where they’re blowing? As free as the wind Hopefully learning Why the sea on the tide Has no…
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Mitt Romney Thesis and Evangelicalism
David French’s article in The Atlantic (October 14, 2022) is an interesting analysis on ‘The Trump’ phenomena. French connects Trumpism to the Mitt Romney martyr thesis on events of 2012, and, behind that pattern of behaviour, a right-wing version of American evangelicalism. It had to do with the role of Newt Gingrich during a moment…
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A Message to the Queensland Parents for Secular State Schools
I am responding to the below-mentioned Campaign and the thinking in reaction to a meme, posted on the Facebook page of the Queensland Parents for Secular State Schools. “This, in a nutshell, is why [meme] there should be no religious instruction in public schools. It doesn’t get more divisive and judgemental than this.…