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Go straight to hell

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September 2006, no. 284

Quarterly Essay 22: Voting for Jesus: Christianity and politics in Australia by Amanda Lohrey

Black inc., $14.95 pb, 112 pp

Go straight to hell

by
September 2006, no. 284

In the week that Voting for Jesus landed in my letterbox, the Howard government announced that it was considering dollar-for-dollar support for state school chaplaincies, while, in New South Wales, fresh allegations surfaced of branch stacking by the state Liberals’ ‘religious right’ faction. Those perplexed by such developments in secular Australia will find novelist Amanda Lohrey a helpful, warm-hearted guide. Her colourful, impressionistic and approachable account of Australia’s religious right welcomes readers into a debate that some might previously have been inclined to dismiss as too confusing, or as marginal to secular concerns. Chats with academics, theologians and commentators offer a variety of angles. Far from adopting a didactic tone, the text beguiles with numerous questions that sound rhetorical but often remain unanswered.

Quarterly Essay 22: Voting for Jesus: Christianity and politics in Australia

Quarterly Essay 22: Voting for Jesus: Christianity and politics in Australia

by Amanda Lohrey

Black inc., $14.95 pb, 112 pp

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