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  • Canberra : ANU Press  (2)
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    Negotiating the Sacred : Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society (2006)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781920942489
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Burns Coleman, Elizabeth Negotiating the Sacred : Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society
    DDC: 305.892
    Keywords: Blasphemy
    Abstract: Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Negotiating the sacred in multicultural societies -- Secularisation and secularism -- Understanding blasphemy -- Sacrilege and the sacred -- The state and tolerance -- A tolerant society? -- The future-openness and dogmatism -- Conclusion -- Section I. Religion, Sacrilege and Blasphemy in Australia -- 2. Negotiating religious dialogue: A response to the recent increase of anti-Semitism in Australia -- 3. Are we capable of offending God? Taking blasphemy seriously -- L'affaire Aikenhead -- Offending the Ens entrum…or the beliefs of believers? -- Conclusion -- 4. A flaw in the nation-building process: Negotiating the sacred in our multicultural society -- 5. The paradox of Islam and the challenges of modernity -- Section II. Sacrilege and the Sacred -- 6. Stretching the sacred -- Durkheim and 'the sacred' in the social sciences -- Religion to society -- Society to religion -- The sacred-profane distinction and the effects of 'effervescence' -- The sacred-profane distinction is not universal -- The uses of the term 'sacred' and their normative content -- 7. Sacralising the profane, profaning the sacred -- Sacralising what isn't sacred -- Blaspheming the sacred and the profane -- Denialism in the democracies -- Australian conundrums -- 'Forgiving and forgetting' -- 8. Is that a human skull? All in the name of art! -- Tibetan Buddhist practices -- Historical European practices -- Musings -- 9. The bourgeois sacred: Unveiling the 'secular society' -- Section III. The State, Religion and Tolerance -- 10. Sacrilege: From public crime to personal offence -- Sacrilege and sacramental violence -- The spiritualising of religion and the desacralising of law and politics -- Concluding remarks
    Abstract: 11. Expressions of religiosity and blasphemy in modern societies -- Religion and blasphemy -- Attitudes towards blasphemy in Muslim countries and Australia -- Blasphemous attitudes and religiosity -- Religion, modernity and blasphemy -- Discussion and implications -- 12. Negotiating the sacred in law: Regulation of gifts motivated by religious faith -- Direct consideration of the donor's religious motivations -- Protection from exploitation -- Priority given to competing values -- Indirect consideration of the donor's religious faith through the application of objective standards -- Objective standards in legal doctrines and their application to donors of strong religious faith -- The content of objective standards -- Conclusion -- 13. Negotiating a religious identity in modern Japan: The Christian experience -- The post-war experience -- The legal system -- Experience opposing the state -- Guilt -- A trans-war perspective -- Early background -- 1900-26 -- 1927-29 -- The 1930s -- Conclusion -- Section IV. The Future: Openness and Dogmatism -- 14. 'We already know what is good and just…': Idolatry and the scalpel of suspicion -- Nietzsche's critique -- Christian response -- Conclusion -- 15. The sacred and sacrilege-ethics not metaphysics -- 16. Resolving disputes over Aboriginal sacred sites: Some experiences in the 1990s -- Sacredness and significance -- Comparing the incommensurable -- The role of the rapporteur -- The Alice Springs Dam Case -- Mining at Iron Knob -- Boobera Lagoon -- Mining in 'blackfella country' -- Some reflections -- Bibliography
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    Inequality in Australia (2003)
    Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 306 p. , ill , 25 cm
    Edition: Reproduction. Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004
    Series Statement: E-Books von NetLibrary
    DDC: 305.0994
    Keywords: Equality ; Social classes ; Australia Economic conditions 21st century. ; Australia Social conditions 21st century. ; Australia Social policy. ; Electronic books.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-291) and index , Sofern kein Zugang über ein Universitätsnetz zur Verfügung steht, kann eine Registrierung zur kostenlosen Nutzung erfolgen: http://www.nationallizenzen.de
    URL: http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=120656
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    Negotiating the Sacred : Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society (2006)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781920942489
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (234 p.)
    Keywords: Blasphemy. ; Multiculturalism. ; Offenses against religion. ; Religion and sociology. ; Sacrilege. ; Religion & beliefs ; Religion: general
    Abstract: Religion; Sociology; Blasphemy; Sacrilege; Offenses against religion
    Note: English
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