The contest for Aboriginal souls : European missionary agendas in Australia / Regina Ganter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ganter, Regina, author.

Series:

Aboriginal history monographs.

Aboriginal history monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Religion.

Aboriginal Australians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 248 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

ANU Press 2018

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : ANU Press, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book covers the missionary activity in Australia conducted by non-English speaking missionaries from Catholic and Protestant mission societies from its beginnings to the end of the mission era. It looks through the eyes of the missionaries and their helpers, as well as incorporating Indigenous perspectives and offering a balanced assessment of missionary endeavour in Australia, attuned to the controversies that surround mission history. It means neither to condemn nor praise, but rather to understand the various responses of Indigenous communities, the intentions of missionaries, the agendas of the mission societies and the many tensions besetting the mission endeavour. It explores a common commitment to the supernatural and the role of intermediaries like local diplomats and evangelists from the Pacific Islands and Philippines, and emphasises the strong role played by non-English speakers in the transcultural Australian mission effort. This book is a companion to the website German Missionaries in Australia – A web-directory of intercultural encounters. The web-directory provides detailed accounts of Australian missions staffed with German speakers. The book reads laterally across the different missions and produces a completely different type of knowledge about missions. The book and its accompanying website are based on a decade of research ranging across mission archives with foreign-language sources that have not previously been accessed for a historiography of Australian missions. ‘A remarkable intellectual achievement, compelling reading.’ — Dr Niel Gunson ‘The range of knowledge on display here is very impressive indeed.’ — Professor Peter Monteath"

Contents:

The quest for ecclesiastical territory - Catholics and Protestants

Protestants divided

Empires of faith

The subtle ontology of power

Engaging with missionaries

The trials of missionary life

The German difference.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (JSTOR, viewed June 4, 2020).

ISBN:

9781760462055

1760462055

Publisher Number:

10.22459/CAS.05.2018