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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785138703321

Autore

Jensz Felicity

Titolo

German Moravian missionaries in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908 [[electronic resource] ] : influential strangers / / by Felicity Jensz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden [The Netherlands] ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2010

ISBN

1-282-78643-1

9786612786433

90-04-18153-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Studies in Christian mission, , 0924-9389 ; ; v. 38

Disciplina

266/.0234309409034

Soggetti

Missions, German - Australia - Victoria - History - 19th century

Germans - Australia - Victoria - History - 19th century

Aboriginal Australians - Missions - Australia - Victoria - History - 19th century

Victoria Church history 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on the six decades that German Moravian missionaries worked in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, this book enriches understanding of colonial politics and the role of the non-British other in manipulating practice and policy in foreign realms. Central to the transnational nature of the book are questions of identity and of how individuals, and the organisations they worked for, can be seen as both colluders and opposers within nation-state borders and politics. It analyses the ways in which the Moravian missionaries navigated competing agendas within the colonial setting, especially those that impacted on their sense of personal vocation, their practices of



conversion, and their understandings of the indigenous non-Christian peoples in the settler society of Victoria.