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ON FAITH
V ol. 65, no. 4, 2006

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[Editorial]

Duncan Reid 1 Post-Secular?

[Fiction]

Monica Raszewski 9 Blood Red

Errol Scott 57 The Gorilla's Angel

Gerardo Rodríguez Salas 63 Mirage

A. L. Macphee 138 A Doll's House

Barry Cooper 165 9.7 Milligrams of Heaven

Bruce Pascoe 194 Rene of Rainbird Creek

Rosaleen Love 222 The Truth is Spreading Through the Sunny World

Timothy Doyle 234 Home Run

[Essays]

Kevin Hart 3 On Faith

A Christian perspective from one of our leading poets and philosophers

Ingrid Laemmle-Ruff 32 Faith and Land
On an unusual family and religious connection between Australia and the Middle East

Hanifa Deen 37 A Question of Boundaries
Muslims in Australia make an international splash with a recent court case

Stephen Crittenden 48 The Odd Couple
Pope Benedict's inflammatory address on Islam allies him with a well-known atheist

Caroline Brothers 59 A Mexican Easter
Ancient pagan rituals meet and mingle with contemporary Christian ones

Damon Young 66 Faith without God
The gospel according to Nikos Kazantzakis

Gillian Bouras 72 Stronger than Death
How religious faith is likely to survive recent attacks on it by the likes of Richard Dawkins

Rachael Kohn 81 Faith in a 'Post Secular' Society
A popular broadcaster looks askance at some recent trends in spiritual life

Jennifer Sinclair 96 On Being for the World
Finding a spiritual via media between religious and secular imperatives

Sasha Cooper 108 On Transhumanism
A new secular philosophy and its critics

Barry Hill 117 From Hiroshima to the Twin Towers
The Zen philosophy of American poet Gary Snyder

Sophie Cunningham 128 Writing for Buddha
Why it's hard to make Buddhism sound exciting

John Bartlett 169 Yahweh and Eros
Why institutional Christianity needs to rethink its views on sex

Rodney Wetherell 176 Dissenting Voices
Challenging the official Anglican line in non-Western cultures on homosexuality

Stuart Piggin 184 The Properties of Concrete
Sydney Anglicanism and its recent critics

Duncan Reid 212 Language of the Heart
On the changes in Russian worship since the end of the Soviet era

Morag Fraser 240 The Politics of Faith
Religion and populism: linking Dan Brown, Amanda Lohrey, Kevin Rudd and Andrew Denton

[Chronicle]

Will Day 202 I Was a Teenage Gopi-Girl
Falling in and out of love with the Hare Krishnas

[Review Essays]

Felicity Bloch 15 Jews under the Sun
Some contemporary perspectives on Jewish-Australian culture

Peter Willis 88 Beauty and Belief in Postmodern Times
How religion and aesthetics overlap in contemporary spirituality

Judith Beveridge 113 World into Word
On Richard James Allen's index of the mind and spirit

Jonathan Clarke 228 Wrestling the Spirit
How Russian spirituality pervades a recent Australian novel

[Comment]

Shahram Akbarzadeh 43 Fighting for Civilisation
On the dangers of identifying Islamic ideas with Muslim terrorism

Constant J. Mews 71 The Possibilities of Interfaith
A medievalist finds inspiration in the concept of a 'post-secular' world

[Cinema]

Brian McFarlane 158 Softly and Tenderly .
Hymns of praise to three recent movies, including the late Robert Altman's last offering

[Poetry]

Kate Llewellyn 2 The Search

Bernard Smith 28 Lot

Derek Wright 30 Iago

Geoff Page 31 Sand

Robert Carter 71 The Thin Hours

Sarah Holland-Batt 95 The Idea of Mountain

Alan Gould 105 Eleven Tilts around the Soul

Barry Hill 127 Sujata's Seductive Mind

Jillian Pattinson 134 Communion

Greg McLaren 135 From Buddhism Decoder

Graeme Hetherington 153 Bitterness

Chris Wallace-Crabbe 154 At Margins such as This

Dorothy Porter 156 The Snow Line

Jeff Guess 182 Missionaries

Rowan Williams 183 Namugongo: Martyrs' Memorial

Simon Patton 211 Cancer Ward ; Dumplings

Paul Mitchell 233 Prayer

John Nijjem 233 Tabernacles

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