The Battle for Australia: salvation and conquest

Marion Maddox*

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence
EditorsAndrew R. Murphy
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherWiley-Blackwell, Wiley
Pages424-438
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9781405191319, 1405191317
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Apr 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Christian missionaries, missionary societies - sending countries (British, German-Lutheran and Catholic)
  • Christian teaching, a package - authoritarian management and physical deprivation
  • Culture and salvation - indigenous communities, passing on aspects of their culture
  • Indigenous people, regarding missionaries - trustworthy, than other Europeans
  • Killing expeditions, justified as retaliation - spearing of Europeans, or their cattle
  • Missionaries, only source - of European denunciation of atrocities
  • Scale of disruption and invasion - determining roles, religion plays in violent dispossession
  • South Australian legislation, two pieces - Aborigines Acts of 1911 and 1939, giving the flavor
  • The battle for Australia - salvation and conquest
  • The indigenous population, shrinking - forces of murder, sexual violence and disease

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