Religion & Ethics: Content from Across the ABC

Musical healing

15/11/2015, 06:30 pm

Sacred bees

14/11/2015, 5.00pm

Hannah's Song

15/11/2015, 10:00pm

Can Europe live with itself?

18/11/2015, 05.30pm

Morocco's Sufi trance masters

15/11/2015, 1.30pm

Stratford's Christmas Story

15/11/2015, 11.30am

Tantra: balancing opposites

15/11/2015, 6.00pm

Conversations on Religious Current Affairs

15/11/2015, 10:00pm

Shadi Hamid

Politicians are falling into the very trap Islamic extremists always set for us. ISIS and its ilk want to fashion a clash of civilizations. They want this to be "us versus them." They want to exploit growing anti-Muslim and anti-refugee sentiment to push a narrative that French Muslims and Western Muslims more generally will never be fully accepted by their countrymen. They wish to extinguish the "gray zone" and provoke a sort of apocalyptic world war, where Muslims are forced to choose sides. Perhaps these politicians are unaware that the point of terrorism is to provoke target populations to do things they otherwise wouldn't do. Let's start by not doing it for them.

Rowan Williams

Paul and Augustine are blamed for any number of historical outrages. But on questions like slavery and empire, they were more progressive than many credit.

New York Review of Books

"Part of the challenge is - and I see this in our politics - is a common conversation. It's not so much, I think, that people don't read at all; it's that everybody is reading in their niche, and so often, at least in the media, they're reading stuff that reinforces their existing point of view. And so you don't have that phenomenon of here's a set of great books that everybody is familiar with and everybody is talking about."