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Indlæser... The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper & the Ruptured Worldaf Robert Kenny
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A unique, seminal work about co-opted beliefs when European missionaries encountered Australian Aboriginals A unique, seminal work about co-opted beliefs when European missionaries encountered Australian Aboriginals The Lamb Enters the Dreaming traces the life of Nathanael Pepper of the Wotjobaluk people, who was born as the first pastoralists were driving cattle and sheep into Victoria's Wimmera region. In their wake came Christian missionaries, who were just as hostile to the settlers' violence as they were to the traditional beliefs of Aboriginal people. The extraordinary story of Pepper's conversion to Christianity in 1860, and his subsequent attempts to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable, reveals much about the deeper symbolic and moral forces at work in this collision of cultures. No library descriptions found. |
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Kenny suggests that it is Darwin not Christianity that has most to blame for the mindset of settler colonies in relation to Indigenous people. He outlines how social Darwinism and scientific racism was the basis of a policy in which governments became bent on the control and assimilation of Aboriginal people.
In contrast, the Moravians believed Aboriginal people were equally capable, alongside anyone, of striding to the highest level of acceptance and culture and faith. Kenny argues that missionaries were the most compassionate supporters for Indigenous people in early colonial Victoria.
He also suggests how Aboriginal people may have perceived the strange sheep, horses and cattle that entered their land. This is an intriguing discussion that warrants further consideration for thoughtful readers.
This volume that has got some very respectable reviews in mainstream and academic press; it warrants attention from anyone interested in Christian missions and their context in 19th century Australia. ( )