“Where the spirit of wisdom lies”: Inculturation, self‐determination and the authority of First Nations

• Published in: Journal of Religious History
• Main Author: Rademaker, Laura Michelle
• Other Authors: Australian Research Council
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2023
• Subjects: Deacon; Dodson; First Nations
• Online Access: 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

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...