Spiritual & religious beliefs

In November 1879 the first issue of the Victorian Review carried an article by Marcus Clarke, 'Civilization without Delusion', in which Clarke discussed the role…

Patrick White experiments with language as a symbolic writer with a religious mission. His religion, however, is not that of a Christian although he extols…

Goodwin’s investigation of Kendall’s religious persuations takes as a starting point a suggestion by Douglas Sladen (in A Century of Australian Song, 1888) that…

It is not only global weather patterns that are changing, it seems. It is hard to imagine being asked to review two books dealing with…

Les Murray responds to a survey asking about his approach to war as a subject or vehicle for fiction, the challenges of doing so, the…

Considers Webb's adaptation of Eyre's 'realization of his complete isolation' during his ill-fated exploratory journey of 1841, with particular emphasis on the poem's engagement with…

A previously unpublished poem by John Shaw Neilson.

Amongst contemporary Australian poets there are those whose work can be classed as overtly religious, whose poetry adheres to older, transcendental models of signification, to…

‘In this essay, the radical potentialities of modernism’s dialogue with notions of the sacred will be analysed, with a particular focus on the active construction…

The transnational movement between Ireland and Australia of school periodicals, pedagogical ideas and educational theories are writ large in histories of colonial education in Australia…