Peter Kurti
Person's affiliation
Centre for Independent Studies
Cracking up? Culture and the displacement of virtue
Unease has been growing that something has changed for the worse in our culture. The change is perceptible but often defies precise description. This paper calls for a renewed understanding of culture as that which expresses a shared, common vision for our human and social...
A shy hope in the mind: secularisation and the diversity of Australia's religious economy
What a supply-side analysis of religion might reveal about the place of religion in Australia
Religion is not dead, and non-belief is not the new normal. Affirmation of religion's significance through a supply-side analysis can, in turn, serve to strengthen contemporary calls for more adequate protections for religious liberty, which have come under threat in Australia in recent times.
Reason, repentance, and the individual: recovering the religious roots of Western civilisation
This paper argues that the West cannot remain the West if it becomes indifferent or hostile to its religious heritage.
Terror in the Name of God: confronting acts of religious violence in a liberal society
CIS Occasional Paper 154
This paper sets out to examine some of the key problems religious violence poses for western, liberal societies.
The democratic deficit: how minority fundamentalism threatens liberty in Australia
We are faced with a new kind of fundamentalism – call it 'minority fundamentalism.' It has all the features of religious fundamentalism, such as ideological fanaticism, intolerance of dissent, and a Manichaean certainty about truth and falsehood. The goal of the minority fundamentalists is to...
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