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Our Posthuman future?

Finding my place by Alison Sampson
A while ago, a woman accosted me at a party. She forcefully pointed out that I was irresponsible for staying home with my children because it told my daughters that a woman's place was limited to the home.

It's a wonderful world by Peter Crabb
Greed is both a collective and individual issue. Collective public pressure through the ballot box is just one avenue for bringing about change, but in terms of governments, it must not stop there.

When is a human not a human? by Denise Cooper-Clarke
Even if we were agreed that species boundaries do exst, the moral question remains - what is wrong with crossing them?

Cloning: trading in the female body by Melinda Tankard-Reist
Women have become invisible in the glitz and hype that the cloning debate has become.

Abraham Lincoln, depression, and the value of sadness by Andrew Errington
Christians in particular, have profound reasons to be uncomfortable with the implication that all sadness is bad, and that wellness equals happiness.

Religion 2.0 by Paul Emerson Teusner
Religion online is having a greater impact on how we experience church than ever before. As the internet moves from Oldweb to Web 2.0, will religion in Australia also be replaced by something better, more user-friendly?

Deep Justice by Gavan O'Farrell
Because of the different approaches taken to the Love Commandment, I call the Right "God-specialists" and the Left "neighbour-specialists. We are supposed to be mindful of the whole commandmant, of course, but some of us tend to lean one way: it is possible to lean so much that half the Commandment is virtually ignored.

A posthuman future? by Ian Barns
What difference does a gospel vision of our post-human future make to the way we respond to the possibilities and dangers posed by our present technological order?

BOOK & FILM REVIEWS

Coercive reconciliation: stabilise, normalise, exit aboriginal Australe
The ethical imagination: journeys of the human spirit
Making babies: personal IVF stories
Stem cell research and human cloning: contemporary challenges to our humanity
The lives of others.


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Autumn 1998

Readings
Obituary: Julie Banks - Xena's Feminine Mystique - The Song of Tracks that Wind Back - The Sacred Spaces of Margaret Wertheim - Caught in the Crossfire of the Media-Violence Debate - When Zero is Number One - Fill the Bath with Water, it's Nearly Y2K Day

Reviews
Lolita - The Judas Economy and The Corrosion of Character - The Monk and the Philosopher - The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace - Open Australia - The Age of Spiritual Machines

Zadok Perspectives Issue 62
Spring/Summer 1998

Readings
The Song of the Emu - Justice and Entitlement in the Republic of God - Beyond Tolerance - Soulless Politics: the role of values and faith in the body politic - The Rise of the Relativist - Interview: Robert Manne - Cyber Tribes of the Global Village - A Cook's Confessions

Reviews
Measuring Progress: is Life Getting Better - Jewel - This Whispering in our Hearts by Henry Reynolds

Zadok Perspectives Issue 61
Winter 1998

Readings
The Real Challenge of Pauline Hanson - The Wicked Witch of the North? - The Song of the Desert - Whose Reform? Which Equality - Breaking the Silence - A Future With Memory

Reviews
Beyond Belief: Modern Art and the Religious Imagination - Redneck Wonderland - Among the Barbarians: The Dividing of Australia - Hidden Agendas

Zadok Perspectives Issue 60
Autumn 1998

Readings
Deconstructing the Death of God - The Cosmos and the Highland Thing - The Magpie's Songlines - Bob Santamaria: The Power of One - No more debates about 'True Justice'

Reviews
Class in Australia by Craig McGregor - Gangland by Mark Davis - Productive Diversity by Bill Cop and Mary Kalantzis, and Changing Work Values by Gordon Preece - Time out of Mind by Bob Dylan - Deconstructing Harry, by Woody Allen

                                                                                                                                              
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