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Written by: haydent [18/09/10, 23:56] Action: [ Reply ] [ Quote ] |
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Part 4: The Australian Religion Episode 4 - The Australian Soul Broadcast: Thursday 19 Aug, 2010 The Church once dominated the Australian landscape. Of all the great shifts in Australian life since World War II, perhaps religion has travelled farthest. Back in the 1940s and 50s Australians dutifully attended church and Sunday school. Christianity had a firm grip on the Australian soul. But from the late sixties, bad boys and girls were finding spiritual fulfilment elsewhere and the Churches struggled to keep up. Nowadays only about 8% of Australians go to church every Sunday and over 18% say they have no religion. So are we a nation of lost souls? Combining astonishing historical archive film and the revealing personal stories and photographs from people, both inside and outside the church, this episode explores the struggle for the Australian soul since the end of World War Two. Encapsulating the era: an Irish catholic family experiences sectarianism first hand in the 1950s; a nun is touched by romance during the flower power of the 1960s; a priest is radicalised by the Vietnam war in the 1970s; a good catholic girl closes the door on organised religion when she is scorned for an extra marital affair; an Aboriginal woman tries to maintain the ties to traditional beliefs and two protestant boys both at the Billy Graham Crusades in the 1950s embark on entirely different future paths. Each story illuminates the dramatic moments in the changing nature of the Australian spiritual landscape. http://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php?showtopic=35937  |
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