Exploring Religion and Politics: Introduction
During the decade of conservative government under Prime Minister John Howard, religion acquired a political importance long absent from Australian public life. Those who looked to the election of a Labor government to change the situation might have been disappointed: incoming Prime Minister Kevin...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Equinox Publ.
2009
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Journal for the academic study of religion
Année: 2009, Volume: 22, Numéro: 3, Pages: 322-323 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Religion
B Politics |
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| Édition parallèle: | Électronique
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| Résumé: | During the decade of conservative government under Prime Minister John Howard, religion acquired a political importance long absent from Australian public life. Those who looked to the election of a Labor government to change the situation might have been disappointed: incoming Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who had launched his bid for the Labor leadership by writing a widely discussed pair of articles about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, spoke regularly about his faith. His government’s first formal act in the new Parliament was a quasi-liturgical national apology to the Stolen Generation of Indigenous children taken from their families. |
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| ISSN: | 2047-7058 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal for the academic study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/arsr.v22i3.322 |