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Australian Religious Thought de Wayne Hudson

Australian Religious Thought

Autor Wayne Hudson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2016

A groundbreaking exploration of the role of religious thought in shaping Australian identity and culture. Wayne Hudson challenges conventional narratives of Australia as a secular nation by revealing the profound influence of religious ideas on its intellectuals, history, and social development.

Australian Religious Thought delves into diverse topics such as sacral secularity, postsecular consciousness, and Aboriginal spirituality, offering fresh perspectives on the interplay between religion, philosophy, and society. Through insightful analysis and compelling case studies, Hudson uncovers a rich tapestry of intellectual and spiritual inquiry that has been long overlooked. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the forces that have shaped Australia's past, present, and future. For scholars of Australian history, religious studies, and intellectual history.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781922235763
ISBN-10: 1922235768
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Monash University Publishing
Colecția Monash University Publishing
Locul publicării:Melbourne, Australia

Descriere

Australian Religious Thought is the first major study of this field. Wayne Hudson argues that religious thought can be found in many intellectuals in Australia, both in the religiously inclined and in those who were not conventionally religious. Drawing together existing and new research, he opens up new perspectives and re-thematises this area of enquiry in six exploratory studies. The concept of sacral secularity is used to complicate and contest discussions of ‘the secular’ in Australia. Religious liberalism is interpreted as transnational and as often a source of social reform. Interactions between religious thought and philosophy are discussed in some detail, as is the development of theology, which has received relatively little attention from historians. Account is also taken of what might be called postsecular consciousness in many intellectuals.Taking religious thought more seriously suggests possible revisions to the way the national story has been told. There has been more serious intellectual life in Australia than historians have generally acknowledged, and a considerable part of it was in a broad sense ‘religious’.

Recenzii

Learned and precise, this book shows what’s wrong with the old boundary between secular and sacred in Australia. The implications for rethinking our past, present and future are enormous.
Here, for the first time, the history of Australian religious thought receives the kind of sophisticated treatment that it richly deserves, in the hands of an author of phenomenal learning and intellectual range. It will be much harder in the future for anyone blithely to call Australia a secular society and leave it at that. Wayne Hudson is steeped in the history and philosophy of the world’s religions and with assurance and zest, he tells the story of a previously underestimated religious dimension of Australian cultural and intellectual history.
[Stuart] MacIntyre challenged Hudson ‘to make better sense of how the patterns in Australia compared with those in other settler societies’. As a first step, Hudson has ‘brought together a substantial body of research and interpreted some of it in innovative ways’. For this, we contributors to Australian religious thought are in his debt, whether or not we count ourselves as religious.
Hudson’s book is a welcome and learned contribution on an important topic for the future of Australia.

Notă biografică

Wayne Hudson works across the fields of philosophy, history, politics and religion. He is an authority on the German Jewish philosopher Ernst Bloch and a leading historian of English deism. He has published eighteen books and is an Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt University and the University of Tasmania.