“Where the spirit of wisdom lies”: Inculturation, self‐determination and the authority of First Nations
By the 1970s, Christian missions to Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory were enthusiastic supporters of Indigenous self‐determination, even as they sought to maintain a missionary presence in Aboriginal communities. This article asks how missions continued to seek to influence and direct Abo...
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crwiley:10.1111/1467-9809.12944 2024-06-02T08:06:44+00:00 “Where the spirit of wisdom lies”: Inculturation, self‐determination and the authority of First Nations Rademaker, Laura Michelle Australian Research Council 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12944 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-9809.12944 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/1467-9809.12944 en eng Wiley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Journal of Religious History volume 47, issue 4, page 516-537 ISSN 0022-4227 1467-9809 journal-article 2023 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12944 2024-05-03T11:10:07Z By the 1970s, Christian missions to Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory were enthusiastic supporters of Indigenous self‐determination, even as they sought to maintain a missionary presence in Aboriginal communities. This article asks how missions continued to seek to influence and direct Aboriginal churches and communities through espousing self‐determination, and how Aboriginal leaders engaged with and exploited this apparent contradiction. Focusing on contributions to the missiological publication Nelen Yubu from Deacon Boniface Pedjert, Patrick Dodson, Miram Rose Ungunmerr‐Baumann, Dyiniyini Gondarra and Alice Kelly this article considers how Aboriginal leaders and thinkers managed and challenged non‐Indigenous expectations set for them around how their decolonisation was to proceed. Self‐determination, for missionaries, could be achieved by a new, supposedly more enlightened mission to “inculturate” the gospel. Whereas missionaries presumed Aboriginal church leaders' authority rested in their cultural authenticity, these Aboriginal leaders were also asserting other sources of authority including their culture, but especially the authority that arises from Country itself. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Wiley Online Library Deacon ENVELOPE(-59.987,-59.987,-73.248,-73.248) Dodson ENVELOPE(-62.750,-62.750,-75.767,-75.767) Journal of Religious History 47 4 516 537 |
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By the 1970s, Christian missions to Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory were enthusiastic supporters of Indigenous self‐determination, even as they sought to maintain a missionary presence in Aboriginal communities. This article asks how missions continued to seek to influence and direct Aboriginal churches and communities through espousing self‐determination, and how Aboriginal leaders engaged with and exploited this apparent contradiction. Focusing on contributions to the missiological publication Nelen Yubu from Deacon Boniface Pedjert, Patrick Dodson, Miram Rose Ungunmerr‐Baumann, Dyiniyini Gondarra and Alice Kelly this article considers how Aboriginal leaders and thinkers managed and challenged non‐Indigenous expectations set for them around how their decolonisation was to proceed. Self‐determination, for missionaries, could be achieved by a new, supposedly more enlightened mission to “inculturate” the gospel. Whereas missionaries presumed Aboriginal church leaders' authority rested in their cultural authenticity, these Aboriginal leaders were also asserting other sources of authority including their culture, but especially the authority that arises from Country itself. |
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