Subordination, invisibility and chosen work: Missionary nuns and Australian Aborigines, c.1900–1949

Carey, Hilary M.

doi:10.1080/08164649.1998.9994913

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“…It would also be interesting to compare the meaning and impact of the ideal of motherhood with that of virginity in the Catholic culture of the nineteenth and twentieth century. But dealing with this type of comparison would lead us astray from the argument of this paper (see, e.g., Carey, 1998).…”

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Cultural Values and Social Differentiation: The Catholic pillar and its education system in Belgium and the Netherlands

Vanderstraeten¹

2002

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According to research on 'pillarization', some European countries (such as Belgium and the Netherlands) are internally divided into blocs of different religious and political persuasions. In this article, it is indicated that the success of the pillars has never been unambiguous . In domains of professional services, like education and health care, the pillars were successful. Other societal sectors, which function more impersonally, could escape from their in uence. Pillars could ourish in societal sectors, whose functioning depends on face-to-face contacts. This explains why 'religious virtuosos' were able to ful l such a prominent role in the Catholic pillar, and especially in Catholic education.

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Cultural Values and Social Differentiation: The Catholic pillar and its education system in Belgium and the Netherlands

Vanderstraeten¹

2002

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“…21 Australian missions were the last of the age of imperial expansion. 22 In other contexts, the establishment of independent churches in place of colonial missions was a nationalist first step towards independence. 23 Yet as missionaries were evacuating Africa and Asia in the 1950s and 1960s and devolving authority to local churches, missions to Aboriginal people were consolidating their work as governments deployed them to pursue policies of assimilation.…”

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

Rademaker¹

2023

Journal of Religious History

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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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“…Scholars have given their attention to missionary policies and methodologies employed in various areas of Australia, 2 or to the relationships between religious orders working with Aborigines and the Catholic hierarchy 3 . Cultural attitudes of Catholic missionaries have been discussed in wider ecumenical frameworks 4 .…”

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Motivations of Catholic Missionaries Working with Australian Aborigines

Girola

2003

Australas Psychiatry

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Objective: To investigate the cultural and theological presuppositions that have influenced the attitudes of Catholic missionaries towards Australian Indigenous people. Methods: Analysis of missionary literature and Papal missionary encyclicals.Findings: 'Charitable institutions' such as hospitals, orphanages and schools, were seen as instrumental to the diffusion of Catholicism. In extreme cases, this brought an interpretation of disease as a 'providential gift'. More often, it fostered the idea that spiritual rewards -better achieved in an 'artificial' context of isolation -were more important than the fulfilment of material needs. Missionaries decided priorities in advance, in accordance with the assumption that 'savages' were children, and had to be treated as such. Conclusions:The Vatican has recently reaffirmed the superiority of Catholicism over other religions. There is a need for the Catholic Church to move towards a greater acceptance of religious pluralism.

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Subordination, invisibility and chosen work: Missionary nuns and Australian Aborigines, c.1900–1949

Cited by 25 publications

References 4 publications

Cultural Values and Social Differentiation: The Catholic pillar and its education system in Belgium and the Netherlands

Cultural Values and Social Differentiation: The Catholic pillar and its education system in Belgium and the Netherlands

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

Motivations of Catholic Missionaries Working with Australian Aborigines

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