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Australian Soul challenges the idea that religious and spiritual life in Australia is in decline. This fascinating book describes the character of religious and spiritual life in Australia today, and argues that, far from petering out, religion and spirituality are thriving. Gary Bouma, the leading expert on the state of religious life in Australia, provides the most up-to-date facts and figures and compares the 'tone' of Australian religious practices with those of other countries. Australians might be less vocal and more reticent about their religion than Americans are, but their religious and spiritual beliefs are no less potent. Australian Soul describes and analyses our religious and spiritual life in detail as well as providing a series of case studies that illustrate the range of practices and beliefs in Australia today. Australian Soul predicts a vital future for religion and spirituality.
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'Bouma's references to theoretical and research resources are authoritative and, in my view, worth the value of the book. The suggested reading, references and index at the back of the book are second-to-none. The book is strong on analysis, diagnosis, trends, surveys, and aetiology, rather than prescription.' Insights

'The Professor … is positive about the remaining and growing 'spirituality' outside, as well as inside, organised religion.' Church Times
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This fascinating book challenges the idea that religious and spiritual life in Australia is in decline.

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This fascinating book challenges the idea that religious and spiritual life in Australia is in decline. Australian Soul not only describes and analyses religious and spiritual life in detail, it also provides a series of case studies that give voice to the range of practices and beliefs in Australia today.
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'Bouma's references to theoretical and research resources are authoritative and, in my view, worth the value of the book. The suggested reading, references and index at the back of the book are second-to-none. The book is strong on analysis, diagnosis, trends, surveys, and aetiology, rather than prescription.' Insights

'The Professor … is positive about the remaining and growing 'spirituality' outside, as well as inside, organised religion.' Church Times --This text refers to the digital edition.
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Professor Gary Bouma is head of the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University. He holds the UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations – Asia Pacific and is Chair of the Standing Committee on Ethics in Research Involving Humans. He is the author of numerous works on the interaction between religion and society in Western countries including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Europe.
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M. I. McGuinness
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5.0 out of 5 stars Australian cultural and spiritual shifting tidesReviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on 18 August 2018

Australian Soul offers a comprehensive description of the nature of religious and spiritual life in Australia today. It analyses the post-modern, post-Christendom, post-empire, post-colonial, post-national, post-ecumenical, post-denominational, secular, post-secular, post-book, post-family, post-patriarchal and multicultural characteristics of the Australian context. Bouma builds his case with up-to-date facts and figures, the latest research and astute insights and case studies. Rather than bemoaning religious decline, he observes how religious and spiritual life is changing and showing itself as 'A whisper in the mind and a shy hope in the heart' (words used by Manning Clarke and Thornhill to refer to a key characteristic of the ANZAC psyche, appropriate also to broader Australian spirituality). A key theme was his analysis of the cultural shift from tradition to rationality (after the Renaissance, Reformation and especially the Enlightenment), and now to experience and emotion as the dominant form of authority. It is a move from orthopraxy (in terms of right worship scripting), to orthodoxy (right beliefs and creeds), to orthoprassy (right feelings and emotional responses). Bouma indicates how this shift in authority-base is reflected in what spirituality is appealing, what church forms are declining and how religious communities and worship services are organized. His analysis of globalization and changing family structures were also significant, particularly because these issues are not often dealt with in the emerging church literature. Churches need expressions that address global justice issues and that cater for people other than the 40% that live in nuclear families.
Gary Bouma is a La Trobe University Professor and an authority on religion and society in Western countries, and his work is worthwhile background to understand the heritage and trends of Australian religious life and grass-roots expressions of spirituality.

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Margaret C. Sadler
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This book is very intriguing to read. It relates to US readers as well as those from Australia. Gary Bouma uses statistics from Australia to illustrates changes in how we practice religion in the 21st Century. Many changes are happening all around us but they happen without analysis for the most part. Dr. Bouma has spent most of his career in this field and has many insights which are helpful to the student of religion and society.

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3.0 out of 5 stars an interesting readReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 15 February 2014
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It's always interesting to see what others perceive about your nation. Yet when we consider a nation, how can the whole be encapsulated? Statistics are of no use, particularly in Australia - (We're notorious for not trusting those who govern and therefore are sometimes less than honest in what we give away!) Overall, I think that Bouma does justice to the spiritual question of Australia; a hard task for any author.
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Care farming

Care farming is the use of farming practices for the stated purpose of providing or promoting healing, mental health, social, or educational care services.^[1]^[2]^{[non-primary source needed]}

Convicts may also be required to spend time at care farms.^[3] Care farms may provide supervised, structured programs of farming-related activities, including animal husbandry, crop and vegetable production and woodland management.^[4]^{[non-primary source needed]}

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Working on a care farm can help adult offenders gain new skills.^[3] More studies should be done on care farming to determine if it can be an alternative and adjuvant therapy for people with some mental illnesses (such as anxiety or depression).^[5]

Care farming can be beneficial for the animals on the farm.^[6] For example, greater exposure to humans might reduce some of the stresses caused by typical agricultural practices, and having more people see the animals might increase the detection of parasites or other animal health issues.

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Benjamin Rush (1746–1813) published 5 books in a series of Medical Inquiries and Observations, the last being concerned with The Diseases of The Mind (1812). In this volume, the practice of horticulture is mentioned twice.^[7]^{[better source needed]}^{[clarification needed]}

Students learn how to weed in specially designed wheelchair accessible garden beds.

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^ Jump up to:^a ^b Murray, J; Coker, JF; Elsey, H (2019). "Care farming: Rehabilitation or punishment? A qualitative exploration of the use of care farming within community orders". Health Place. 58: 102156. doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102156. PMID 31301600.
^ National Care Farming Initiative (UK)
^ Murray, Jenni; Wickramasekera, Nyantara; Elings, Marjolein; Bragg, Rachel; Brennan, Cathy; Richardson, Zoe; Wright, Judy; Llorente, Marina G.; Cade, Janet; Shickle, Darren; Tubeuf, Sandy (December 2019). "The impact of care farms on quality of life, depression and anxiety among different population groups: A systematic review". Campbell Systematic Reviews. 15 (4). doi:10.1002/cl2.1061. ISSN 1891-1803. S2CID 213047955.
^ Gorman, R (2019). "What's in it for the animals? Symbiotically considering 'therapeutic' human-animal relations within spaces and practices of care farming". Med Humanit. 45 (3): 313–325. doi:10.1136/medhum-2018-011627. PMC 6818525. PMID 31409658.
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Roger S. Ulrich, Ph.D. Dr. Roger Ulrich is Professor of Architecture at Texas A&M University and a faculty fellow of the Center for Health Systems & Design, an interdisciplinary center housed jointly in the colleges of Architecture and Medicine.

A behavioral scientist, he conducts research on the effects of healthcare facilities on medical outcomes. Dr. Ulrich and his associates have researched, for example, the effects of hospital window views on recovery from surgery, the effects of art on patient outcomes, and how noise impacts patients and staff.

Among other achievements, his research is the first to document scientifically the stress reducing and health–related benefits for hospital patients of viewing nature.

This and other work has influenced internationally the architecture and interior design of scores of major hospitals. Further, Dr. Ulrich has developed a Theory of Evidence–Based Design that has become influential as a scientifically grounded but “user friendly” guide for creating successful healthcare facilities.

Dr. Ulrich has published widely in both scientific and design journals, and his research has received international scientific recognition. He has worked extensively in Scandinavia, especially Sweden, where he has carried out research at Lund Institute of Technology, Uppsala University, and the Karolinska Institute of Medicine.

He has also been Visiting Research Professor in Healthcare Architecture at the University of Florence, Italy, and served as Invitation Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Also, he serves as advisor on evidence–based healthcare design for the British National Health Services. He is a member of the Board of Directors of The Center for Health Design, California, and serves as co-chair of its national Research Committee.

Ph.D., 1973, (Human/Behavioral Geography) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MA, 1971 (Human/Behavioral Geography) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor B.A., 1968, (Economics) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Director, Center for Health Systems and Design, Texas A&M University, 1997 - present Jointly housed in the colleges of Architecture and Medicine, the Center emphasizes multidisciplinary approaches for research, graduate education, and outreach for designing improved healthcare facilities and communities.

The Center's activities cut across different academic departments and colleges, but involve mainly faculty and graduate students in architecture, landscape architecture, and planning. The Center supports courses for a multidisciplinary graduate certificate in Health Design, which presently enrolls about 20 Ph.D., M.Arch , and MLA students.

Current research and design projects focus, for example, on women's healthcare facilities, nursing homes, neighborhood clinics, healing gardens, restorative landscapes, accessible communities, and benefits of nature for elderly. Associate Dean for Research, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, 1988-1997 The College is one of ffie largest university programs in ffie United States concerned with the design, planning, and construction of environments. (Approximately 106 faculty PTEs, 1400 undergraduate students, 375 graduate students.)

Responsibilities as associate dean included research policy, research development, administrative oversight for external contracts and grants that on average exceeded $3 million annually, programs for awarding seed grants for scholarly and creative projects, and administrative responsibility for seven (later eight) multidisciplinary centers and laboratories.

Activities of the college span the full research continuum-from community outreach (funded, for example, by HUD and line items from the Texas Legislature), through application-oriented projects, to basic research funded by such federal agencies as NSF and NIH.

Professor (joint appointment), 1988-present, Departments of Landscape Architecture and Architecture, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University Visiting Research Professor, Spring, 1997 College of Architecture, University of Florence, Italy Visiting Researcher, 1984-1985 Department of Clinic Psychology, Uppsala University, Sweden Visiting Professor, 1977-1978 Department of Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics, School of Architecture, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden Lecturer, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor, 1973-1978 Department of Geography, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Planning Consultant, 1972-1973 Ann Arbor City Planning Department Ann Arbor, Michigan Research Associate, 1971-1972

Regional Research Associates Ann Arbor, Michigan Awards and Recognition University of Michigan Regents' Scholarships, 1964-68 Ford Foundation Fellowships, University of Michigan,1970-72 Rackham Prize Fellowship, ,Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, 1972-73. (Highest graduate fellowship award given by University of Michigan.)

Paper with K.Klink on "Effects of Winter Weather on Employee Absenteeism" selected by Program Committee as Outstanding Paper for release to national media, Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, 1983. (One of 12 papers selected out of several hundred)

Paper with R.Davis on "Summer Weather and Employee Absenteeism" selected by Program Committee as Outstanding Paper, Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, 1984. (One of 15 papers recognized out of approximately 900.)

Paper subsequently presented at request of the Office of the Secretary, U.S Department of the Interior, Washington, DC., 1984

Article in Science (April, 1984) selected as "Medical News of the Week" for reporting by the American Medical Association Radio Nerwork and the Physicians' Radio Network. Research subsequently cited prominently in Journal, American Medical Association editorial calling for a new conceptual model in medicine (June, 1986) This research has influenced internationally the architectural form, location, land acquisition, siting, landscaping, and interior design of scores of major hospitals and other healthcare facilities built or renovated since 1984. Influenced the recent revisions to the Environmental Quality Criteria for accreditation of hospitals and healthcare organizations implemented by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JAHCO). In a dramatic change that may have far-reaching effects nationally, JAHCO's new accreditation criteria call for healthcare organizations to provide in facilities the "availability of the calming and restorative powers of nature" (Standard EC.4. 1) Also, the criteria call for providing "pleasant" window views that can be seen by patients from their beds.

Paper with R. Simons on "Effects of Experiences with Environments on Stress Recovery" selected by Program Committee as outstanding paper for release to national media, Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, 1986. (One of 15 papers selected out of approximately 800 given at the meetings.) Subsequently reported as "Medical News" by Physicians' Radio Network (April, 1987). Paper with T. Cosgrove on "Front Yards of Conservatives vs. Liberals" selected by Program Committee as Outstanding Paper, Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Phoenix, 1987. (One of about 20 papers selected out of approximately 1000.) National Award for Exemplary Team Leadership in Higher Education, (one of team members cited), American Association of University Administrators, 1990. Selected by President of Texas A&M University as the sole representative of the 2500+ Texas A&M faculty for national meeting, "Stresses on Research in Colleges and Universities." National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, December, 1993. Chapter in The Biophilia Hypothesis (edited by S. Kellert and E. 0. Wilson) singled out for discussion in lead review in Science (25 February, 1994, pp.1161-1162). National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) President Randall Smith cited the "major contributions" of my research to the publication: Building Greener Neighborhoods: Trees as Part of the Plan. Washington,DC: Home Builder Press/NAHB, 1996. This book has received three international awards, including the ECO Award from the Natural Resources Defense Council. BEDSCAPES, a healthcare design product patented by Healing Environments International, Inc., in 1996 won (first place) three major international healthcare interior design product awards, including the Nightingale Award. BEDSCAPES was developed and subsequently has been marketed based on my work. Invited to serve as Visiting Research Professor in Architecture, University of Florence, Italy, 1997. Awardee, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitation Research fellowship (focusing on People Plant Retaions), 1998 Who's Who in American Education (Marquis) Who's Who in medicine and Healthcare (Marquis) American Men & Women of Science. New Providence,NJ: R. R. Bowker. Who's Who in America in Science and Engineering (5th Ed.)(Marquis) Who's Who in the South and Southwest (Marquis) Dictionary of lnternational Biography,27 edition. Cambridge: UK.

Who's Who in the World (next edition, Marquis) Selected Professional and Service Activities Editorial Activities Member, Editorial Board, Landscape and Urban Planning (1997-present). Member, Editorial Board, Urban Ecosystems (1995-present). Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Landscape Research (1982-1996). Member, Editorial Board, Man-Environment Systems (1978-83). Reviewer for Journals: Annals, Association ofAmerican Geographers Anthrow~os Archives of internal Medicine Environment and Behavior Environmental impact Assessment Review Geographical Review Journal of Architectural and Planning Research Journal of Environmental Psychology Journal of Social and Developmental Psychology Landscape and Urban Planning Landscape Journal Proceedings of the Environmental Design Research Association Professional Geographer Review of General Psychology Urban Geography Reviewer for more than 50 proposals for research funding agencies in the U.S. (e.g. NSF), Canada, and Sweden. National and International Service (Elected) Councilor, Delaware Valley Geographical Association (DVGA). (The DVGA mambership base consists of faculty from 12 universities and colleges, and professional planners and geographers.) 1967-80. Member, Election Committee, Middle States Division, Association of American Geographers, 1977-78. Member, Program Committee, National Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, 1979. (Elected) Vice-President, Delaware Valley Geographical Association, 1980-83 Board member (representing the University of Delaware), Consortium for Environmental Forestry Studies (USDA Forest Service and 11 eastern universities), 1982-84. (Elected) Member, Board of Directors, Environmental Perception Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 1985-87. Chair, Long-Range Planning Group, Environmental Perception Specialty Group , Association of American Geographers, 1986-87 (Elected) President, Delaware Valley Geographical Association, 1985-86 Member, North American Committee, Nature Experience Research Program (a joint European-North American research funding program), 1983-1987. Member, Urban Ecodsystems Directorate, U.S. Man and Biosphere Program. U.S Department of State and UNESCO, 1987-91. Member, committee to develop a "A Research Agenda for the Impact of Community Greening." American Community Gardening Association, 1991-1992 (Elected) Member, National Executive Board, Architectural Research Centers Consortium(ARCC), 19921995. Member, Healthcare Design Research Committee. (A national committee), The Center for Health Design, San Francisco, California, 1992-present.

Co-organizer (with K.Spreckelmeyer and J.Robinson) of conference,"Reconfiguring the Design Studio: Integrating Research Into Teaching in Architecture Schools." Architectural Research Centers Consortium and Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. San Antonio, 1993. Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA) planning committee on "The Critical Care Unit of the Future," 1994. Member, Board of Trustees, The Center for Health Design, San Francisco, 1995-present. Member, American Architectural FoundationlAIA team to interact with Disney, Inc. about possible exhibit on architecture for Disneyworld in Orlando. Spring, 1995. Member of initial task force, American Architectural Foundation/AlA initiative on Architecture and the Human Experience, 1995-present. Member, American Society of Landscape Architecture President's Task Force on the Value of the Profession to Society, 1995-97. Member, author group, Scenic America and National Park Service project to develop manual for assessing visual quality for community planning and design applications. 1996-97. Member, Expert Committee on Large Airports and Public Health (appointed by Netherlands Ministries of Health and Environment, and the EU) to evaluate environmental, social, and public health impacts of the proposed expansion of Schiphol Airport, Netherlands. (If carried out, the expansion would be the most important and expensive EU construction/planning project since the Chunnel.) My responsibilities focus on evaluating potential impacts of the proposed project on landscape and urban visual quality, and stress related to, for instance, aircraft noise and reduced access to nature. 1998-present. Selected University and Community Service: University of Delaware (1973-88) Member, University Cultural Activities Committee, 1975-77 Member, Mayor's Committee on Downtown Development (later, Community Development Task Force), Newark, Delaware, 1967-78 Representative from Delaware Humanities Forum, Committee to evaluate proposed New Castle County Comprehensive Development Plan, Delaware, 1977. Member, University Visiting Scholars and Speakers Committee, 1977-79, 81-83. Faculty senator, University Faculty Senate, 1975-77, 77-79, 79-81, 83-84. Member, University Council on Program Evaluation, (committee to evaluate college of Urban Affairs), 1978-79. Chair, Provost's Committee to Evaluate Uses and Abuses of the Pass/Fail System, 1979-80 Member, College of Arts and Science Committee to Develop Interdisciplinary Minor in Urban Affairs, 1980-81. Fund-raising coordinator for three university departments, University Development Campaign for Expansion of Morris Library, 1983. Selected Department Service: University of Delaware (1973-88) Developed departmental student course evaluation questionnaire, Department of Geography, 1974-75 Developed undergraduate and graduate program for funded internships for Delaware geography students at the Smithsonian's Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies, Edgewater, Maryland. Chair, Department of Geography Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1987. Member, 1975, 1983, 1984. Chair, Department Committee for Five-Year Review of Associate Professors, 1982-83, 1986-87. Member, Committee for Five-Year Evaluation of Chair of Geography, 1982. Chair, Department of Geography Faculty Search Committees, 1980, 1987.