Indigenous Australia and the Unfinished Business of Theology : Cross-Cultural Engagement.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Colonization Has Many Names -- 2 Receive, Touch, Feel, and Give Raypirri -- 3 Seeing Otherwise: Touching Sacred Things -- 4 Missionary Genocide: Moral Illegitimacy and the Churches in Australia -- 5 From Little Things Big Things Grow -- 6 Reconciling a Platypus Nation: Can Churches Help? -- 7 Ritual, in the Healing of Memories -- 8 Migration and Rudd's Apology: Whose Voices Are Heard, and What Do They Mean for the Christian Community? -- 9 In Touch Out of Touch: The Church and Reconciliation -- 10 National Black Congress: Ambivalence and Ambiguity -- 11 Formation for Ordained Ministry: Out of Touch? -- 12 Envisioning an Emerging Asian Australian Christianity -- 13 Place and Displacement: Reading Scriptures with Indigenous Australians -- 14 Hope with and Trust in Aboriginal Stories -- 15 Forgive Us Our Trespasses: Black Australia, Peopled Wilderness, Eroding Islands -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

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.

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