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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: 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.
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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: 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: 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: News - Do I really want to read it?
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Writing Religion and Spirituality. Media, Film, Music and the Supernatural. Friday, May 23, 2014. News - Do I really want to read it? This is Baudrillard's hyperreal representation. When Baudrillard (1995) wrote 'The Gulf War did not take place', he observed in a wide-ranging way what the media were projecting as obfuscation. The difference was that he did not accept the mediated representation of spectacle and disconnected hyperreal images. It was, as Guy Debord (1994). Stated, a spectacle of ideology:.
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Writing Religion and Spirituality: February 2012
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Writing Religion and Spirituality. Media, Film, Music and the Supernatural. Monday, February 27, 2012. What do the terms compassion and charity mean to you? Are they specifically religious and spiritual terms and if so, how are they used in a religious perspective? Is there a difference between the way they are used in religious discourse or in popular culture. Give examples? Image Source: Pixabay: http:/ pixabay.com/en/smooth-leaf-aster-aster-herbstaster-10341/. Writing Religion and Spirituality. Simila...
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Writing Religion and Spirituality: February 2013
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Writing Religion and Spirituality. Media, Film, Music and the Supernatural. Wednesday, February 27, 2013. Beauty, Media and Religion - Reflection. When theorists in the past have defined religion, or developed a universal framework of the various dimensions of religious expression and experience, they have often presented a structural or functional definition that, depending on the theorist, ignores or bypasses deities (God, gods, goddesses) and the values that religion promotes. 2012) says 'scrambles' o...
