RT Book
T1 The contest for Aboriginal souls: European missionary agendas in Australia
T2 Aboriginal History Monographs
A1 Ganter, Regina
LA English
PP Acton, A.C.T
PB ANU Press
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/106660651X
AB 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 endeavor. 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
AB 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 endeavor. 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
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-248)
CN BV3650
SN 9781760462048
SN 1760462055
SN 1760462047
SN 9781760462055
K1 Catholic Church : Missions : Australia
K1 Aboriginal Australians : Religion
K1 Protestant Churches : Missions : Australia
K1 Aboriginal Australians : Missions : Australia
K1 Catholic Church
K1 Aboriginal Australians
K1 Protestant Churches
K1 Electronic books
K1 HISTORY ; Australia & New Zealand
K1 Missions
K1 Aboriginal Australians ; Missions
K1 Aboriginal Australians ; Religion
K1 Protestant churches ; Missions
K1 Australia