German Moravian missionaries in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908 : influential strangers / by Felicity Jensz
- Bib ID:
- 4840852
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Jensz, Felicity
- Description:
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- Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, c2010
- xv, 274 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9789004179219
- 9004179216
- Series:
- Studies in Christian mission ; v. 38.
- Summary:
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History of the work of Moravian missionaries in Victoria 1848-1906; review of previous histories; history of the Moravian Church and the beginnings of their missionary work; attitudes to Aborigines; colonial administrative context and the establishment of missions; aims of the missions; establishment of Lake Boga and response to its failure, changes in attitude to Aborigines - undermining of Aboriginal religion and culture; missionary approach to conversion; Hagenauer and the establishment of Ebenezer; conversion of Nathanael Pepper and its consequences; founding of Ramahyuck and Kopperamanna; treatment of Bessy Flower; Christianization and civilization as mission policy; conflict with colonial policies - attitude to Coranderrk; racism and Moravian Christianity - Hagenauer?s role in shaping the 1886 ?Half-Cast? Act and the Act?s influence.
- Full contents:
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- God's lot : Moravians and missions
- "The most wretched and bleakest" : Moravian desire to work amongst the Australian Aborigines
- "Ein fauler Fleck" : Lake Boga, a putrid stain
- "I is done
- no more" : the first converts
- "Alles geht seinen schleppenden Gang"
- expansion, movement and sluggish progress
- "Every triumphant death"
- closure in a British colony.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-261) and index.
- Subject:
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- Moravian Church -- Missions -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century
- Missions, German -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century
- Germans -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism - 1851-1900
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Religions - Christianity - Moravian Church
- Social identity - Mixed descent
- Race relations - Attitudes
- Victoria -- Church history -- 19th century
- Ebenezer / Lake Hindmarsh (NW Vic SJ54-03)
- Lake Boga (NW Vic SI54-16)
- Lake Wellington / Ramahyuck (E Vic Gippsland SJ55-11)
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- Publication date:
- 2010
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