Sacred Australia
Sacred Australia: post-secular considerations - ed. Makarand Paranjape.
NON FICTION, ISBN 978-0-9802983-9-0 | Paperback. 336 pp.
AUD$39.95.
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In this challenging and thought-provoking
collection of essays the idea of ‘sacred Australia’ is explored
through literature, art, architecture, aboriginal studies,
sacred geography and a range of cultural phenomena—from sport to
performance art—by leading academic writers, artists and
commentators.
Sacred Australia includes papers by Bill Ashcroft, Peter
Boyle, John Bradley, Mark Brett, Geoff Cheong, Frances
Devlin-Glass, John Docker, Dennis Haskell, Sudhir Kumar, Anne
Marsh, Freya Mathews, Peter Murphy, Makarand Paranjape, Deborah
Bird Rose, Graham Seal, David Tacey, and Claudia Terstappen.
‘This collection presents a compelling case for reviewing
Australian culture past and present, indigenous and settler,
through the lens of the sacred. Reflecting the new and overdue
interest in the sacred in postcolonial and transcultural
studies, it focuses on reconciliation, showing the many ways in
which indigenous and settler views influenced each other. It
helps us see how both are evolving, as we contemplate the
limitations of the dominant paradigm of secular
modernity...’—Gareth Griffiths
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