Dr. Paul Monk on Religion and Society in the 21st Century

In this podcast, Nick and Dr. Paul Monk discuss:

• The Rationalist Society of Australia and Paul’s occasional paper, Religion and Society: Dilemmas of Our Time

• The deep history of the relationship between religion and society

• The relationship between liberal and social democracies and religion since the Reformation

• The rich traditions of mysticism, prayer and contemplation

• The case of Israel Folau and the Religious Freedom Bills before the Australian Parliament

• How we might structure curricula in schools to promote greater literacy and understanding of religious and civic issues

• A vision for religious toleration in the 21st century
  
  

Dr Paul Monk is a poet, polymath and highly regarded Australian public intellectual. He has written an extraordinary range of books, from Sonnets to a Promiscuous Beauty (which resides in former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s library), to reflective essays on the riches of Western civilization in The West in a Nutshell, to a prescient 2005 treatise on the rise of China in Thunder from the Silent Zone: Rethinking China.