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There's more to art and spirituality than meets the eye, ear or intellect. More is what lingers, soothing the troubled soul, leaving a bad taste, irritating beyond belief or what we thought we knew. More is about our interaction with that which is not obvious, a process that inadvertently engages us in co-creation of the Read more

Muslim woman's seam of resistance... Read more]]> There's more to art and spirituality than meets the eye, ear or intellect. More is what lingers, soothing the troubled soul, leaving a bad taste, irritating beyond belief or what we thought we knew. More is about our interaction with that which is not obvious, a process that inadvertently engages us in co-creation of the ongoing story. We are changed by our engagement and so is the artwork.

For Your Eyes Only is a three-minute DVD, a story about Muslim women preparing for a wedding, part of the exhibition, In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary at the Dowse Art Gallery. But only women can see it, a boundary that has prompted complaints of discrimination.
Not everyone agreed the boundary discriminated. A collective of artists and art educatorspointed out that "Our own work … makes us constantly aware that "the public" is not simply the absence of boundaries, but the development of sites where effective participation and reflection on boundaries can take place." Read more
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Sande Ramage is an Anglican priest and blogger.

Muslim woman's seam of resistance]]> 34499 NZ anthem spiritual mumbo-jumbo https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/09/14/nz-anthem-spiritual-mumbo-jumbo/ Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:32:11 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=33323

HA, what a laugh! Maori singing songs to rivers and claiming they have a special right to water and wind. Let's charge them every time there is a flood. How about those Muslim women? Won't let men see them out of veil. Take them to the Human Rights Commission! As a non-believer, I don't have Read more

NZ anthem spiritual mumbo-jumbo... Read more]]> HA, what a laugh! Maori singing songs to rivers and claiming they have a special right to water and wind. Let's charge them every time there is a flood.

How about those Muslim women? Won't let men see them out of veil. Take them to the Human Rights Commission!

As a non-believer, I don't have a lot of time for religion, be it Christianity, Islam or Maori "spiritual" beliefs. So, if the Waitangi Tribunal, in its latest findings, talks about Maori believing that rivers have a mauri, or life-force, and taniwha lurking in the depths, shouldn't I be loudly ridiculing such mumbo-jumbo?

Perhaps, but the thing is, I'm not Maori. And while I don't personally hold spiritual beliefs about rivers, many Maori do. And the tribunal must take those beliefs into account. The tribunal isn't saying that there are taniwha in the Waikato. Read more

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Dave Armstrong is a writer for theatre and television.

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