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Category: Concepts in Religious Thought Series
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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.…
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Understanding Reference and Meaning, and Fair Evaluation of All Worldviews
“The first thing to realize…is that most people go through life with a whole world of beliefs that have no sort of rational justification, and that one man’s world of beliefs is apt to be incompatible with another man’s, so that they cannot both be right. People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel…
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The Language and Ignorance of the Culture Warrior and Knowledge of Religion & Culture in Late 20th Century Queensland
This is a blog post to set everyone straight, which makes me open to the critique of being one of Manning Clark’s ‘straighteners’; but that’s another story. My arguments, as a general framework, is based on a basic critique of the neo-conservative paradigm. The paradigm is a defence of a cultural position(s) which has become…