Introduction: Rethinking Secularism in <scp>A</scp>ustralia (and Beyond)

Chavura, Stephen A.; Tregenza, Ian

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“…The irony, as Judge notes, is that Julian’s secularist approach itself assumes a Christian psychological legacy, and this issue remains a facet of modern debates about secularism. As Chavura and Tregenza (2014: 303) describe it, ‘for Judge…far from Greek philosophy being the forerunner of modern secularism, the modern secular “religion” is in fact “Jerusalem’s gift to the West”’. In one of Judge’s greatest syntheses of his themes of Athens and Jerusalem, the origins of the modern mind, and how the ‘open hearted’ church (as ‘learning communities’) changed the West (Judge, 2014b: 319), he says…the peculiar paradox of the West [is] that we live intellectually in both Athens and Jerusalem.…”

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Undesirable aspects of Christian and secular universities: Reflections on Judge and Haidt

Dalziel

2022

International Journal of Christianity & Education

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This article reviews the educational writings of historian Edwin Judge, particularly by providing a wider context for his paper The Undesirability of Christian Universities. It discusses differences between formal education and the churches in the Roman world and considers implications of these for modern Christian higher education. Given Judge’s argument for Christian involvement in secular universities (and against Christian higher education), it considers recent problems with secular universities, especially the phenomenon of academic ‘cancel culture’. To understand these problems, it considers the work of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and ‘Heterodox Academy’. The conclusion encourages Christians to seek excellence in research.

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Undesirable aspects of Christian and secular universities: Reflections on Judge and Haidt

Dalziel

2022

International Journal of Christianity & Education

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“…The preferential treatment of Christian symbols and practices reflects how Christianity still holds a prominent and normalised position in Australia. Australian society is often assumed to be highly secular or even ‘post-religious’ (Chavura and Tregenza, 2014, p. 301), yet a large proportion of Australians are still affiliated with Christianity 23 . Some argue that ‘historically Australia is a country as “Christianised” as secular, and, in terms of its values possibly more Christianised than secular’ (Piggin, 2014, p. 322).…”

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The difference a wire makes: planning law, public Orthodox Judaism and urban space in Australia

Riedel

2020

International Journal of Law in Context

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This paper considers a planning dispute that surrounded the construction of a Jewish religious installation (called an eruv) in the public urban space of an Australian suburb. The aim of this case-study is to examine the role of law in regulating Jewish difference – a topic that has to date received little attention in the socio-legal literature concerned with the governance of religious diversity. In analysing residents’ objections to the eruv, the paper explores long-standing anxieties about Jewish particularity in Australia and beyond as they surfaced in opposition to the eruv. It shows how the law continues to exclude certain forms of Jewish difference that are perceived as transgressing dominant religious and racial norms. Moreover, the paper highlights the particular ways in which planning law assigned value to these anxieties and legitimised the marginalisation of Orthodox Jews, emphasising the significance of local law as a site for exclusion and inequality.

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“…Stephen Chavura and Ian Tregenza have pointed out that there is a paradox in the fact that, as terms like "secular" and "secularisation" are more widely used in society and in academic literature, their definition by theorists has narrowed. 6 But in some cases the definitions, though narrowed, have become imprecise. John Milbank's 2006 work, Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason has emphasised that secularisation can be regarded as a positive endorsement of humanism and human autonomy.…”

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Introduction: New Perspectives on Secularisation in Britain (and Beyond)

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2017

Journal of Religious History

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This introductory article reviews the recent developments in the debate on secularisation to establish the context within which the articles in this collection are located. It argues that the debate is complex and multi‐faceted, and has been subject to refocus and redefinition in the last decade. The article traces the contributors' previous interventions in the debate, and summarises the articles in this volume. It concludes that the theme of secularisation remains of continuing interest to scholars precisely because it has such broad collections between history and other disciplines. Moreover, the secularisation debate continues to engage scholars on different sides of the enlightenment divide.

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Introduction: Rethinking Secularism in Australia (and Beyond)

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Undesirable aspects of Christian and secular universities: Reflections on Judge and Haidt

Undesirable aspects of Christian and secular universities: Reflections on Judge and Haidt

The difference a wire makes: planning law, public Orthodox Judaism and urban space in Australia

Introduction: New Perspectives on Secularisation in Britain (and Beyond)

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