Rachael Kohn is a senior ABC religion producer who has worked across programs including The Religion Report, Religion Today and The Spirit of Things for 17 years. She was previously an academic at Sydney University with a speciality in religious cults and new religious movements.
She has published two books on religion, The New Believers: Reimagining God (2004) and Curious Obsessions in the History of Science and Spirituality (2007).
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What do people hope for when they consult a psychic, and what leads some to witchcraft?
Topics: spirituality, spiritualism, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, witchcraft, qld
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The world's first ghetto was nothing like the racial enclaves and impoverished neighbourhoods that the use of the term conjures up today.
Topics: judaism, religion-and-beliefs, history, community-and-society, italy
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Some commentators have been keen to avoid labelling Sheikh Haron as a consciously Islamist terrorist, instead saying he was an imbalanced 'lone wolf'.
But viewing the tragedy in the Lindt Café as a 'one off' by a 'maddy' is not only wishful thinking, it is also ignorant of the many cases that the police and intelligence services have already foiled.
Perhaps if mad was also seen as bad, Sheikh Haron would have been stopped in his tracks well before it all came to a hideous end.