Spiritual Beliefs and Practices

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Spiritual Beliefs and Practices

For most Australians religion or spirituality is important. Find out what they believe about conventional Christian beliefs such as God, Jesus, life after death, heaven and hell.

As well as exploring practices of prayer & meditation, other beliefs such as reincarnation, and alternative expressions of spirituality are also explored.

Fast Facts

Two-thirds of Australians claim that a spiritual life is important to them
Most Australians believe in God or a spirit, higher power or life-force (74%)
35% believe in a personal God
42% believe Jesus was divine
43% believe that Jesus' resurrection was an actual historical event
53% believe in heaven
33% believe in the devil
32% believe in hell
33% pray or meditate at least weekly.

From the Australian Community Survey

NCLS findings on Spiritual Beliefs and Practices

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A question of beliefs

The nature of Australian spirituality can be explored from the viewpoint of religious beliefs.

Finding God: mum's the word (Bible and theory article)

Mothers have played a big role when it comes to showing kids what faith is all about

NCLS Occasional Paper 06 - Spirituality and Wellbeing in Australia (Research Paper)

To what extent is a willingness to develop one’s spirituality related to higher levels of wellbeing?

Religion good for wellbeing (Research Article)

People with a secular outlook have lower levels of wellbeing than those with a spiritual orientation

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A comparison of the vitality of monocultural and multicultural churches NCLS Occasional Paper 24

This paper compares the health of mono-cultural Anglo, mono-cultural non-Anglo and multicultural churches in terms of NCLS's core qualities of church vitality and several church attendance measures.

Household and family structures are diversifying (2011)

An awareness of changes in household and family structures in the community can aid ministry