TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ganter,Regina
ED  - Australian National University Press.
ED  - Aboriginal History Inc.
TI  - The contest for Aboriginal souls: European missionary agendas in Australia 
T2  - Aboriginal History Monographs
SN  - 9781760462055
AV  - BV3650 .G368 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Acton, A.C.T.
PB  - ANU Press, Aboriginal History Inc.
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Missions
KW  - Australia
KW  - Église catholique
KW  - Australie
KW  - fast
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Religion
KW  - Protestant churches
KW  - Australiens (Aborigènes)
KW  - Églises protestantes
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Australia & New Zealand
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-248); 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv301dv4
ER  -