S4 Episode 6: How do students reconcile their beliefs with their school curriculum?
In the sixth episode of season four, Dr Rachael Shillitoe a sociologist and a senior social scientist in the British civil service, and Dr Elizabeth Barnes an Assistant Professor of Biology Education at Middle Tennessee State University, discuss their respective research on what primary school age children think about religion and how to teach culturally […]
S4 Episode 5: What do religious and spiritual Australians think about modern medicine?
In the fifth episode of season four, Dr Anna Halafoff, an Associate Professor of Sociology and coordinator of the Spirituality and Wellbeing (SWell) Research Network, SWELL, based at Deakin University in Melbourne, and Dr Tom Aechtner, Associate Professor at the University of Queensland where he researches Australian-specific sources of vaccine hesitancies around COVID-19 and other […]
S2 Episode 2: Science, (Con)spirituality and COVID-19 with Dr Anna Halafoff
New-age spirituality, wellness and alternative health practices have been cast in a new light as the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded. The relationship between these practices and established or mainstream science and public health has tended to be an uneasy one, and this unease has only increased during the pandemic, with online spiritualist and wellness communities […]
Australian neo-Pentecostal perspectives on anthropogenic climate change
By Mairead Shanahan As the seriousness of the human impact on a changing global climate becomes evident, many religious movements are developing theological responses to such ecological issues. As one of the fastest growing Christian denominations on the globe, Pentecostal and Charismatic churches are now formulating theological positions on anthropogenic climate change. Australian neo-Pentecostal churches […]
