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Max Charlesworth

Max Charlesworth was Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University 1976–1990. His publications include Philosophy of Religion, The Existentialists, and Jean-Paul Sartre, and he co-edited Religion in Aboriginal Australia.

Max Charlesworth reviews 'Edge of the Sacred: Transformation in Australia' by David J. Tacey

May 1995, no. 170 01 May 1995
Max Charlesworth reviews 'Edge of the Sacred: Transformation in Australia' by David J. Tacey
We have been blessed in this country with an oversupply of spiritual writers – analysts of and speculators about the spiritual dimensions of our life and culture. We have had a certain amount of history and pop sociology about the Australian temperament and character and much cultural cringing and self-laceration, but not much about the Australian ‘soul’. This is an odd situation since much ... (read more)