The Location of Faith: Power, Gender and Spirituality in the 1883-84 Maloga Mission revival
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The Location of Faith : Power, Gender and Spirituality in the 1883-84 Maloga Mission revival. / McLisky, Claire Louise.
In: History Australia (Print Edition), Vol. 7, No. 1, 2010, p. 8.1-8.20.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The Location of Faith
T2 - Power, Gender and Spirituality in the 1883-84 Maloga Mission revival
AU - McLisky, Claire Louise
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The description and analysis of religious faith, whether as embodied experience or as the subject of academic inquiry, is a troubled undertaking at the best of times. It is particularly fraught in the context of settler-colonial Christian missions to Indigenous peoples, where historical distance and positional power dynamics disrupt our understandings even further. Whether seen as a form of control, a vehicle for new froms of self-expression, or a tool of liberation, spirituality is not something that can be easily dismissed, categorised, or even described. However, given the importance of Christian missions in the history of Aboriginal peoples and the continuing resonance of Christianity in many Aboriginal communities, the importance of undrstanding how and why faith worked on Aboriginal missions cannot be overestimated. This paper takes a fresh look at questions of belief through a consideration of the complex forces, including place, power and gender, which shaped one particularly important event in the history of Christian missions to Aboriginal peoples in Australia: the 1883-84 Maloga Misison revival.
AB - The description and analysis of religious faith, whether as embodied experience or as the subject of academic inquiry, is a troubled undertaking at the best of times. It is particularly fraught in the context of settler-colonial Christian missions to Indigenous peoples, where historical distance and positional power dynamics disrupt our understandings even further. Whether seen as a form of control, a vehicle for new froms of self-expression, or a tool of liberation, spirituality is not something that can be easily dismissed, categorised, or even described. However, given the importance of Christian missions in the history of Aboriginal peoples and the continuing resonance of Christianity in many Aboriginal communities, the importance of undrstanding how and why faith worked on Aboriginal missions cannot be overestimated. This paper takes a fresh look at questions of belief through a consideration of the complex forces, including place, power and gender, which shaped one particularly important event in the history of Christian missions to Aboriginal peoples in Australia: the 1883-84 Maloga Misison revival.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - oprindelige folk
KW - Australien
KW - kristen mission
KW - evangeliske genoplivning
KW - evangelicalism
KW - indigenous people
KW - evangelicalism
KW - evangelical revival
KW - Christian mission
KW - Australia
M3 - Journal article
VL - 7
SP - 8.1-8.20
JO - History Australia
JF - History Australia
SN - 1449-0854
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 20990822