Re-Enchantment
The New Australian Spirituality
David Tacey
RRP: $25.24
ISBN: 073226524X
 

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The spiritual quest is timeless and ongoing. For David Tacey, the quest incorporates key issues such as the redefining of our human identity, a new consciousness about Aboriginal reconciliation, a recognition of youth culture and its spiritual directions, our quest for environmental integrity, and our responsibility to community and to each other. Ultimately, the quest is for a re-enchantment that enables us to overcome our alienation, allowing us, at the beginning of this new century, to build a more harmonious and integrated Australian society.

Here, with great exuberance, is David Tacey's visionary scholarship and devotion to purpose — clearing away the cobwebs and slander and overburden which have stifled and diminished the culture of spirituality in Australia.

David's work is not just about spirituality; it is, in its function and its lilt, profoundly spiritual — vibrantly so — in that it cultivates and heartens and defends the deepest, most true and lovely possibilities for this country. — Michael Leunig

In this tough-minded book David Tacey defines a sense of self and world which arises from a close analysis of Australian society and of the imaginative resources we have to draw on to carry us through into the new millennium. It offers both hope and a challenge, an opportunity, he says, to lead the world. — Veronica Brady

It's a good book, Re-Enchantment, timely and fearless. — Les Murray

David Tacey is Associate Professor of English at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He is the author of Edge of the Sacred.

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