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The Religion and Ethics Report, where religion and ethics meet news and current affairs in Australia and around the world.

  1. 2d ago

    Are Islamic burial traditions threatening social cohesian in Japan?

    The very slow rise of Muslim immigration hasn’t slowed the rise of anti-immigration sentiment in Japanese politics and society.

  2. 2d ago

    Are burial practices driving anti-immigration sentiment in Japan?

    The latest flashpoint is a dispute over Islamic burial rites.

  3. 2d ago

    Are we being proudly human in the face of AI?

    Guardian columnist Peter Lewis has been reading the Pope's encyclical, not as an adherent of the Catholic faith but as someone who’s “proudly human”.

  4. Jul 8

    Ayatollah Kamenei funeral a rallying point for Iranians

    It’s a funeral taking place over six days, five cities and two countries. Crowds have overwhelmed the streets of Iran to mourn or just watch the funeral procession for the late Ayatollah Khamenei. He and other family members died in February in attacks by the US and Israel. Khamenei ran a brutal regime that killed an estimated 40,000 demonstrators earlier this year, but his funeral has become a rallying point for the nation.  The man set to become the next prime minister of Britain, Andy Burnham, is best known as the popular and successful mayor of Greater Manchester in northern England. But long before that, he was a pious altar boy in his local Catholic church in Liverpool. Burnham has referred frequently to his Catholic background and values, even if he observes only some of the church’s teaching. How much will faith shape his prime ministership?  One of the hallmarks of an authoritarian regime is severe restrictions on religious practice. But there’s also been a marked increase in religious repression by individuals, sometimes in defiance of more liberal government policies. The Pew Research Center in Washington has been monitoring this situation. GUESTS: Dr Ali Mamouri  is a Middle East specialist at Deakin University and a former adviser to an earlier reform government in neighbouring Iraq.Hannah Rich is a senior researcher at the London-based think tank Theos.Samirah Majumdar is the lead author of Pew Research's recent report.This program is made on the lands of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation

  5. Jul 8

    Ayatollah Kamenei funeral a rallying point for Iranians

    It’s a funeral taking place over six days, five cities and two countries.  Crowds have overwhelmed the streets of Iran to mourn or just watch the funeral procession for the late Ayatollah Khamenei.  He and other family members died in February in attacks by the US and Israel.  Khamenei ran a brutal regime that killed an estimated 40,000 demonstrators earlier this year, but his funeral has become a rallying point for the nation.  GUEST: Dr Ali Mamouri  is a Middle East specialist at Deakin University and a former adviser to an earlier reform government in neighbouring Iraq.

  6. Jul 8

    New and surprising data on restriction of religious practices

    One of the hallmarks of an authoritarian regime is severe restrictions on religious practice. But there’s also been a marked increase in religious repression by individuals, sometimes in defiance of more liberal government policies.  The Pew Research Center in Washington has been monitoring this situation.  GUEST: Samirah Majumder is the lead author of Pews recent report.

  7. Jul 8

    Will new UK Labor leader Andy Burnham's Catholicism shape his leadership?

    Long before being a PM incumbent, Andy Burnham was a pious altar boy in his local Catholic church in Liverpool.  Burnham has referred frequently to his Catholic background and values, even if he observes only some of the church’s teaching.  How much will faith shape his prime ministership?  GUEST: Hannah Rich is a senior researcher at the London-based think tank Theos.

  8. Jul 1

    America at 250: The inseparable relationship between The United States and religion

    July the 4th marks 250 years since the founders of the United States ratified the Declaration of Independence.  For a nation that was designed explicitly to separate church and state – unlike much of old Europe – the US became remarkably religious.  Even as the number of non-religious Americans grows, faith still permeates the culture and, especially, the politics.  As part of Radio National’s America 250 coverage, we caught up with historian Matthew Avery Sutton. And a longer version of this interview is on our webpage.   Guests: Dr BREANN FALLON is chief executive at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum, which runs programmes dealing with genocide education.MATTHEW AVERY SUTTON is author of Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity.  RELATED MATERIAL: God Forbid on The Scofield Bible

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