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Writing Religion and Spirituality: Biophilia, spirituality and the natural environment

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Writing Religion and Spirituality. Media, Film, Music and the Supernatural. Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Biophilia, spirituality and the natural environment. The dimension of spirituality is found in the way people derive meaning from their connection with nature. It is grounded in people's relationship with the other, that is, with something special, sacred or divine that creates a sense of purpose for one's life. So to what extent does the media influence our lack of nature connectedness in the urban realm?

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Writing Religion and Spirituality: March 2014

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Writing Religion and Spirituality. Media, Film, Music and the Supernatural. Thursday, March 27, 2014. Art that tells a story. The exhibition of Danie Mellor's retrospective artwork (drawings, pastel design and sculpture) is as breathtaking as it is thought-provoking. Held at The University of Queensland's Art Museum, Mellor takes the visitor into his own internal journey as he traverses Aboriginal history and his own Aboriginality. In the moving display he terms Exotic Lies, Sacred Ties. The works are gr...

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Writing Religion and Spirituality: May 2013

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Writing Religion and Spirituality. Media, Film, Music and the Supernatural. Thursday, May 23, 2013. Globalising, Cosmopolitanisng Mediated World. We live in a world surrounded by images, messages, visual noise, and soundscapes. News is instant. 24/7 television news brings even the trivial to the living room, phone, computer. News is global - but what news is that? Who makes the decisions about what is shown and which religious, social or ethnic group is depicted and in what ways? To forge an ethos of pol...

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Writing Religion and Spirituality: Faves - what's yours?

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Writing Religion and Spirituality. Media, Film, Music and the Supernatural. Saturday, May 31, 2014. Faves - what's yours? My favourite band of the moment is from Lebanon, or perhaps it's just my fave tune of the day. The band? Lyricism and heart; moving and intriguing. Why don't I know this song/band/music? Much of my going-to-sleep/waking-up time is spent in tune with Monocle Radio 24. All tinged with SBS Pop Asia. Which I first discovered mashed up on SYTYCD with Mark and Jenna. Lays out a five step pa...

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Writing Religion and Spirituality: And then there was one

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Writing Religion and Spirituality. Media, Film, Music and the Supernatural. Friday, May 2, 2014. And then there was one. Once there was a cat, a stray, who came to visit. He would come twice a day for food. Only rarely did he visit three times, and then in the late afternoon. He was black, boney and young. As he grew, I had to widen the small hole under the fence as he was finding it more and more difficult to squeeze through. He looked so well; I hoped he'd stay. But he never did. When I realised what w...

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Writing Religion and Spirituality: June 2012

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Writing Religion and Spirituality. Media, Film, Music and the Supernatural. Wednesday, June 20, 2012. Globalised, Mediated, Religionised. Social media has enhanced the global spread of religion outside of news and current affairs reporting. Through tweets, youtube imagaries, and websites, news of internal conflicts like in Syria, or anti-government/pro-democracy perspectives, e.g. the 'green wave'. Movement in Iran, the wider public has been informed of people power. Writing Religion and Spirituality.

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Writing Religion and Spirituality: Representation and Indigeneity: lines in the sand

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Writing Religion and Spirituality. Media, Film, Music and the Supernatural. Tuesday, May 13, 2014. Representation and Indigeneity: lines in the sand. One of the significant issues in Writing Religion and Spirituality is to consider what, who and why certain groups are being written about and depicted in certain ways in various mediums. This week we foraged within media representation and Indigeneity. Television reviewer for The Australian newspaper, Graeme Blundel. L (2014) reports the show as:. 2014) wr...

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Writing Religion and Spirituality: January 2012

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Writing Religion and Spirituality. Media, Film, Music and the Supernatural. Thursday, January 26, 2012. Indigenous Rap to Close the Gap. A group of Aboriginal school students from NSW are engaged in writing and performing hip hop message songs that celebrate Aboriginal life and worldviews and challenge racism. See: http:/ www.news.com.au/schools-rap-to-close-gap/story-e6frea83-1225939880805. Posted by Studies in Religion and Spirituality. Labels: Indigenous rap music. Labels: Grace and self-relfexion.

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Writing Religion and Spirituality: Representation - Who is the other? And who is us?

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Writing Religion and Spirituality. Media, Film, Music and the Supernatural. Saturday, May 10, 2014. Representation - Who is the other? And who is us? Often in mainstream media reports, there are elements of a divided society where dualistic framing makes for simplistic and easy to follow storylines. Tabloid coverage. Pits groups against each other when an issue may be far more complex than the surface representation. Sociology researcher Christopher Bail. Religious vilification is against the law. Aiming...

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Writing Religion and Spirituality: May 2012

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Writing Religion and Spirituality. Media, Film, Music and the Supernatural. Saturday, May 5, 2012. Is sport religious or religion? A fundamental question related to the debate on 'Is sport a religion? Is to consider what is religion? Or what kind of religion could sport be? Or even, what kind of religion would one seek and find in baseball? In trying to determine whether there is a relationship between religion and sport, I turn to Geertz (1973:98) who, in the chapter, Religion as a cultural system.