REENCHANTMENT NEW AUS SPIRITUALITY

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. p>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