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Category: Intellectual History
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Religion is not what it was
Dr Neville Buch Thinking Religion in Place Thinking Religion in Place: A Critique of the “Post-Religious” Lament Abstract The colloquial observation that “religion is not what it was” often masks a deeper cognitive tension between Historical Forgetfulness and the requirement for a topological understanding of existence. While populist discourse frequently mourns the decline of institutional…
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Learning foundations for my Curriculum Packages: History and Historiography
Dear friends, Here are the learning foundations for my Curriculum Packages. Abstract This essay explores the vices and virtues of history as a philosophical and social practice, characterizing the discipline not merely as a chronicle of dates but as a “site of conscience” and a laboratory for understanding human existence. Drawing on the socio-intellectual frameworks…
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The Ordinary Person. Between Social Stability and Symbolic Misery
24 April 2026 Dear Friends, An invitation to think Abstract The concept of “Ordinary People” functions as a primary site of tension within modern sociological and ethical frameworks. Defined as the realm of the common, frequent, and every day, the “ordinary” provides a vital sense of communal stability, secular prosperity, and a grounded human point…
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Religion, Secularity, Insider, Outsider, and Synthetic Holism
The General Theory School and Insider-Outsider Abstract The modern general theory of religion begins with Otto’s universalisation of the ‘Holy’ – the belief that all world religions express and interpret the same Christian ‘Holy God’/ holiness, achieved differently through distinctively shaped cultural filters. From this schema arises the task for religionists to develop models explaining…
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Liberating Conservative Thought
Dr Neville Buch MICE Scholar 18 Callendar Street Sunnybank Hills Qld 4109 Rev Dr Mark Earngey Head of Church History and Lecturer in Christian Thought Moore College 1 King Street, Newtown NSW 2042 cc. MICE and Dr Geoff Treloar. This is important because these scholars specialize in Anglo-American, Continental, Sociology and Philosophy, Education, Conservative Thought,…
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Jonathan Haidt and DoC: Cognitive Babel and the Architecture of Systemic Fragmentation
Abstract This essay explores the cognitive and sociological convergence between Dr. Jonathan Haidt and Dr. Neville Buch in their analyses of contemporary intellectual fragmentation. Both scholars identify a systemic breakdown in the ability of modern societies to maintain a shared reality, which Haidt characterizes through the metaphor of “Babel” and Buch defines as a “systemic…
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Poor Dynamic of Cognition: Historical Case – Reactionary Phenomenon (Resistance)
Abstract This essay examines the systemic cognitive pathology characterizing the Queensland Cabinet’s resistance to the heritage listing of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) under Premier Johannes Bjelke-Petersen. By applying the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) framework, the analysis identifies the poor cognitive dynamics driven by an aggressive obsession with State sovereignty and a narrow “techné mindset”…
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How to stop reactionary thought? Uncoiling the Reactionary – Mind Historiography and Cognitive Reform
Dr Neville Buch Uncoiling the Reactionary Mind Historiography and Cognitive Reform Abstract This essay delineates the cognitive and historical process required to remediate reactionary thought, defined here as a systemic intellectual stasis rooted in “Historical Forgetfulness” and the “techné mindset”. Using the socio-intellectual history of Queensland as a case study—specifically the transition…
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Is this what you think in your silence? Bizarre Reactions. The Rhetoric of Dismissal – Defending the Scholarship of Neville Buch
20 April 2026 Dear Friends, Abstract This essay provides a critical evaluation of Sophia Corwin’s 2026 article, “The Epistemic Poverty of Suburban Quixotism,” arguing that Corwin’s response to Dr. Neville Buch constitutes a “bizarre” rhetorical performance that substitutes personal mockery for scholarly engagement. While Corwin attempts to “eviscerate” Buch’s work as “AI-slop” and “academic vacuity,”…
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Private, Public, and What you are Missing by “No” Reading Dr Buch’s Work?
19 April 2026 Dear friends, First, congratulations to Dr Ray Kerkhove for his recent article. This research is very welcome. It also supports my ‘Queensland myth’ historiography, which too many people want to put in the ‘historical forgetfulness’ stage of cognition. I have attached Ray’s article. Kerkhove, Ray (2026). Frontier Wars Queensland…