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1 online resource |
| Series |
Postcolonialism and religions |
| Contents |
1. Colonization Has Many Names -- Neville Naden and Jione Havea 2. Receive, Touch, Feel, and Give Raypirri -- Maratja Dhamarrandji and Jione Havea 3. Seeing Otherwise: Touching Sacred Things -- Rod Pattenden 4. Missionary Genocide: Moral Illegitimacy and the Churches in Australia -- Sarah Maddison 5. From Little Things Big Things Grow -- Mandy Tibbey 6. Reconciling a Platypus Nation: Can Churches Help? -- Margaret Tam 7. Ritual, in the Healing of Memories -- John Fitz-Herbert 8. Migration and Rudd's Apology: Whose Voices are Heard, and What do They Mean for the Church? -- Chris Budden 9. In Touch out of Touch: The Church and Reconciliation -- Gerard Moore 10. National Black Congress: Ambivalence and Ambiguity -- William W. Emilsen 11. Formation for Ordained Ministry: Out of Touch? -- Stephen Burns 12. Envisioning an Emerging Asian Australian Christianity -- Jonathan Y. Tan 13. Place and Displacement: Reading Scriptures with Indigenous Australians -- L. Lee Levett-Olson 14. Hope with and Trust in Aboriginal Stories -- Sang Taek Lee 15. Forgive us our Trespasses: Black Australia, Peopled Wilderness, Eroding Islands -- Jione Havea |
| Summary |
This book engages a complex subject that mainline theologies avoid, Indigenous Australia. The heritages, wisdoms and dreams of Indigenous Australians are tormented by the discriminating mindsets and colonialist practices of non-Indigenous peoples. This book gives special attention to the torments due to the arrival and development of the church. Indigenous Australia has on the one hand been romanticized and patronized, and on the other hand been avoided and ignored, in colonial, contextual and Indigenous theologies. Indigenous Australia and the Unfinished Business of Theology consequently enters into (and invites ongoing) engagement with theological and cultural topics at the intersections of Indigeneity, Church, Colonization, Settlement, Mission, Apology, Reconciliation, Hermeneutics, Migration, and more. The book begins by drawing attention to the ongoing colonization of Australia, and to the rich wisdoms of Indigenous Australians which non-Indigenous people have not begun to respect, learn and appreciate. The remaining chapters are by non-Indigenous people who critically engage with some of the impacts and blind-spots of colonial, missionary, settler and migrant cultures. Together, the multidisciplinary contributors read and engage with Indigenous heritages, arts, memories, and stories, as well as the policies and practices of Australian governments and churches |
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| Subject |
Christianity and other religions -- Aboriginal Australian.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Missions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Religion
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Missions
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Aboriginal Australians -- Religion
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Christianity
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Interfaith relations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Havea, Jione, 1965- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137426673 |
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1137426675 |
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