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1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 min. 6 sec.) ; 332368309 bytes |
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*Adult Themes*The final of the series looking at changes in the social and cultural fabric of Australia since World War II looks at the Australian soul.Of all the great shifts since the War, perhaps religion has travelled farthest. In the 1940s and 1950s, Australians dutifully attended church and Sunday school and the church had a firm grip on the Australian soul. But from the late 60s, bad boys and girls were finding spiritual fulfilment elsewhere and the churches struggled to keep up.Nowadays only about 8 per cent of Australians go to church every Sunday and 18 per cent say they have no religion at all.In this episode we see an Irish Catholic family who experienced sectarianism first hand in the 1950s, a nun touched by romance during the flower power days of the 1960s, a priest radicalised by the Vietnam War in the 1970s, an Aboriginal woman trying to maintain the ties to traditional beliefs and two Protestant boys, both at the Billy Graham crusades in the 1950s, who embarked on entirely different future paths.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Written and directed by Susan Lambert; Executive Producer: Chris Hilton; Series Producer: Ian Collie. Essential Media and Entertainment; made in association with Screen Australia for the ABC |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2010-08-19 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Religion -- Philosophy.
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Spiritual life -- Catholic Church.
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Spiritual life -- Christianity.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Lambert, Susan, director
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McInnes, William, cast
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