Religion in Australia - Rationale Magazine

12 May

Will the Coalition ever learn to stop imposing religion on the public?

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11 Sep

Ethics & Religion

How Australians view the religiosity of their political leaders

11/09/2024
By Neil Francis
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A new Pew Research Center study assesses public opinion about the importance of their national leader’s religion and religiosity...

09 Jun

Ethics & Religion

The Catholic Church’s fight to keep ‘cultural Catholics’ at Census time

11/06/2024
By Si Gladman
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The next Census in 2026 will likely be a watershed moment for our nation, with the proportion of Australians identifying as not religio...

31 May

Ethics & Religion

Australia’s changing spiritual landscape

31/05/2024
By Anna Halafoff
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Spirituality is increasingly popular with young Australians: recent research shows 38 per cent of Gen Z Australians identify as ...

12 Apr

Law & Politics

Archbishop Fisher’s slicing and dicing of religion

15/04/2024
By Paul Monk
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In The Australian on March 25 this year, front page and op-ed coverage was given to objections by the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney to ...

16 Dec

Ethics & Religion

Leslie Cannold: Setting the record straight on beliefs about religious moral superiority

31/01/2024
By Leslie Cannold
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This is the foreword that appears in the newly published volume of the Religiosity in Australia series, by Neil Francis. What...

25 Nov

Feature series, Law & Politics

The hope for secularism

25/11/2023
By Hugh Harris
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This article is part of our ‘A secular Australian future’ feature series to mark the first Secularism Australia Conference

11 Jun

Ethics & Religion

Peter FitzSimons: ‘Religion and charity’ report will help inform debate

11/06/2023
By Peter FitzSimons
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This foreword appears in the newly published Religiosity in Australia: Religion and charity. It is the hoariest chestn...

18 Dec

Ethics & Religion

Andrew Denton: Report reveals gulf between conservative Christian politics and voters

18/12/2022
By Andrew Denton
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This foreword appears in the newly published Religiosity in Australia: Religion and politics. In May of 2022, as New South Wa...

19 Oct

Ethics & Religion

Why religious conservatives are hitting the panic button

09/09/2022
By Noel Turnbull
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In the 1950s, Australians were constantly being told to be aware of the dangers of communist infiltration of our institutions. At the s...

16 Oct

Ethics & Religion

Report adds ‘reach, depth and nuance’ to our understanding of religiosity

This foreword appears in 'Religiosity in Australia: Religious minds, religious collectives'. The Rationalist Society of Austr...

15 Oct

Ethics & Religion

The personal stories reshaping Australia’s journey out of religion

04/08/2022
By Si Gladman
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The trend in people 'deconverting' from religion or 'deconstructing' their faith has in recent years triggered viral hashtags on social...

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