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Title: | It's all relatives | Contributor(s): | Jones, Tiffany (author) | Publication Date: | 2013 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13544 | Abstract: | I have a very Catholic mother and a very Atheist father. Not to mention other relatives, who span the rainbow of Taoist, Wiccan, Born-again Christian and Jewish. This, gentle readers, in no way creates the basis for a straightforward relationship with spirituality. My childhood surfed a weird tension between Mum's efforts to ensure I was baptised and sent to an all-girls Catholic school run by nuns, and Dad's efforts to ensure I read Isaac Asimov (founder of the Committee for Sceptical Inquiry) and was well versed in the sciences, histories and anthropology. I experienced some wipe-outs, pulled down by the undertow of Christian guilt about my sexuality, and yet also slamming painfully against rock of reason on the question of my own mortality. Sometimes I wonder how my parents managed to so seamlessly maintain a happy marriage and agree on the rules by which I was raised, given their seemingly oppositional frameworks of reference for ...you know... the very nature of existence itself. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Heaven Bent: Australian lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and intersex experiences of faith, religion and spirituality, p. 97-100 | Publisher: | Clouds of Magellan | Place of Publication: | Melbourne, Australia | ISBN: | 9781742983547 9780987403742 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 229999 Philosophy and Religious Studies not elsewhere classified 130308 Gender, Sexuality and Education |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 450199 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history not elsewhere classified 390406 Gender, sexuality and education |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 139999 Other culture and society not elsewhere classified | HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/202270819 http://heavenbentbook.wordpress.com/ |
Editor: | Editor(s): Luke Gahan and Tiffany Jones |
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Appears in Collections: | Book Chapter School of Education |
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