In recent years, renewed interest in the role of Christian missionaries in colonising projects has helped inform and challenge current concepts of gender, race and colonial governance. Evangelists of Empire? gathers together a diverse group of scholars around these evolving new histories in Australia and other colonial sites.
Utilising a range of source material and a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, this ground-breaking collection offers the reader new ways of assessing the uneven paths of mission endeavours, and examines the ways in which Indigenous peoples responded to - and took ownership of - aspects of Christian and Western culture and spirituality.
No 18 (2008)
Table of Contents
Context and Critique
| Missions, Colonialism and the Politics of Gender | Abstract PDF |
| Patricia Grimshaw | p. 3 |
| Missions, Colonialism and the Politics of Agency | Abstract PDF |
| Peter Sherlock | p. 13 |
A Global Mission
| Negotiating Colonialism: The Life and Times of Arthur Wellington Clah | Abstract PDF |
| Peggy Brock | p. 23 |
| Sex and Salvation: Modelling Gender on an Indian Mission Station | Abstract PDF |
| Andrew Brown-May | p. 33 |
| Reassessing Missionary Conflict with Colonial Authorities: Sovereignty, Authority and the Civilising Mission in Jamaica | Abstract PDF |
| Julie Evans | p. 47 |
| Through a Glass Darkly: Lydia Brown, a Pioneer Missionary's Partner | Abstract PDF |
| Keith Hallett | p. 61 |
| The Congo Balolo Mission and the Indigenous Christian Community: The Agency of Locals | Abstract PDF |
| Matthew Doherty | p. 73 |
Missionaries in Early Australia
| Salvation and Conciliation: First Missionary Encounters at Sydney Cove | Abstract PDF |
| Meredith Lake | p. 87 |
| The Nucleus of Civilisation: Gender, Race and Childhood in Australian Missionary Families, 1825-1855 | Abstract PDF |
| Jessie Mitchell | p. 103 |
| ‘To Exercise a Beneficial Influence over a Man’: Marriage, Gender and the Native Institutions in Early Colonial Australia | Abstract PDF |
| Joanna Cruickshank | p. 115 |
| ‘From the Influence of Their Parents’: Aboriginal Child Separations and Removals in Early Melbourne and Adelaide | Abstract PDF |
| Barry Patton | p. 125 |
Consolidating the Missionary Project
| ‘The Grand Experiment of the Civilisation of the Aborigines’: a Missionary Endeavour in Western Australia | Abstract PDF |
| Stephen Hills | p. 145 |
| Parallel Fantasies: Tourism and Aboriginal Mission at Lake Tyers in the Late 1870s and 1880s. | Abstract PDF |
| Peter Carolane | p. 161 |
| Professions of Christian Love: Letters of Courtship Between Missionaries-to-be Daniel Matthews and Janet Johnston, 1872-1873 | Abstract PDF |
| Claire McLisky | p. 173 |
| Imperial Critics: Moravian Missionaries in the British Colonial World | Abstract PDF |
| Felicity Jensz | p. 187 |
Missionaries and Assimilation in the Twentieth Century
| ‘That There was Love in This Home’: The Benedictine Missionary Sisters at New Norcia | Abstract PDF |
| Katherine Massam | p. 201 |
| ‘A Longing Desire in My Heart’: Faith, Family and the Colonial Frontier in the Life of Euphemia Kramer 1887-1971 | Abstract PDF |
| Amanda Barry | p. 215 |
| ‘She Has the Native Interests Too Much at Heart’: Annie Lock’s Experiences as a Single, White, Female Missionary to Aborigines, 1903-1937 | Abstract PDF |
| Catherine Bishop | p. 229 |
| Disrupting Assimilation: Soldiers, Missionaries and Aboriginal People in Arnhem Land During World War II | Abstract PDF |
| Noah Riseman | p. 245 |
