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  • The Bible in Australia

    A Cultural History

    by Meredith Lake ...
    A revelatory history of the Bible's surprising influence on Australian culture.In this insightful exploration, Meredith Lake delves into the profound impact of the Bible on Australia's cultural landscape. From its role in shaping colonial society to its influence on Indigenous communities and contemporary debates, this 544-page history uncovers the multifaceted ways the Bible has been interpreted ... Read more

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  • The Bible in Australia

    A cultural history

    by Meredith Lake ...
    The revelatory story of the Bible in Australia, from the convict era to the Mabo land rights campaign, Nick Cave, the Bra Boys, and beyond. Thought to be everything from the word of God to a resented imposition, the Bible has been debated, painted, rejected, translated, read, gossiped about, preached, and tattooed. At a time when public discussion of religion is deeply polarised, Meredith Lake ... Read more

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    The Moral Case for the Uluru Statement from the Heart

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    A collection of passionate essays from religious leaders arguing for a First Nations Voice to be enshrined in the Australian ConstitutionIn this ground-breaking collection of essays, diverse religious leaders and thinkers come together to advocate for the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Contributors from Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh communities powerfully convey why a First ... Read more

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  • Mana Maori and Christianity

    by Hugh Morrison, Lachy Peterson, Brett Knowles, Murray Rae ...
    This book examines encounters between the Christian church and Maori. Christian faith among Maori changed from Maori receiving the missionary endeavours of Pakeha settlers, to the development of indigenous expressions of Christian faith, partnerships between Maori and Pakeha in the mainline churches, and the emergence of Destiny Church. The book looks at the growth, development and adaptation of ... Read more

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  • The Death of Christian Britain

    Understanding Secularisation, 1800–2000

    by Callum G. Brown ...
    Series series Christianity and Society in the Modern World
    The Death of Christian Britain examines how the nation’s dominant religious culture has been destroyed. Callum Brown challenges the generally held view that secularization was a long and gradual process dating from the industrial revolution. Instead, he argues that it has been a catastrophic and abrupt cultural revolution starting in the 1960s. Using the latest techniques of gender analysis, and ... Read more

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  • Taking God to School

    The end of Australia's egalitarian education?

    by Marion Maddox ...
    Fewer Australians now practise a religion or believe in God than ever. Yet our governments increasingly push conservative Christianity on our children.Nearly forty per cent of secondary students attend a private school, which are overwhelmingly Christian. Canberra funds them heavily, and sends evangelical Christian chaplains into both public and private schools. Some states subsidise Christian ... Read more

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  • How Christianity Made The Modern World - The Legacy of Christian Liberty

    How the Bible Inspired Freedom, Shaped Western Civilization, Revolutionized Human Rights, Transformed Democracy and Why Free People Owe So Much to their Christian Heritage

    by Paul Backholer ...
    How Christianity Made The Modern World - The Legacy of Christian Liberty: How the Bible Inspired Freedom, Shaped Western Civilization, Revolutionized Human Rights, Transformed Democracy and Why Free People Owe So Much to their Christian Heritage.What has Christianity ever done for the world? The answer is both profound and inexhaustible. Discover how Christianity became the most important factor ... Read more

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  • Under Siege

    Religious Freedom and the Church in Canada at 150 (1867-2017)

    by Don Hutchinson ...
    Writing from the perspective of a student of life, history, law, politics, and theology, Don Hutchinson draws on all of these areas in Under Siege to offer perceptive insight into the Christian Church of today’s Canada. The reader will receive the benefit of his thirty years of church leadership, Christian witness, constitutional law, and public policy experience to gain a practical understanding ... Read more

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  • A Church with the Soul of a Nation

    Making and Remaking the United Church of Canada

    by Phyllis Airhart ...
    Series Book 61 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
    "As Canadian as the maple leaf" is how one observer summed up the United Church of Canada after its founding in 1925. But was this Canadian-made church flawed in its design, as critics have charged? A Church with the Soul of a Nation explores this question by weaving together the history of the United Church with a provocative analysis of religion and cultural change.The story begins in the ... Read more

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  • Transplanted Christianity

    Documents illustrating aspects of New Zealand Church History

    Edited by Allan K Davidson, Peter J Lineham ...
    Transplanted Christianity is a comprehensive collection of documents detailing the history of the church in New Zealand from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present day. Informative introductions and explanations by Allan Davidson and Peter Lineham fill in the context and make this a book of interest to the serious student of church history and the casual reader alike. This ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Black, White and Exempt

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives under Exemption

    Edited by Lucinda Aberdeen, Jennifer Jones ...
    In 1957, Ella Simon of Purfleet mission near Taree, New South Wales, applied for and was granted a certificate of exemption. Exemption gave her legal freedoms denied to other Indigenous Australians at that time: she could travel freely, open a bank account, and live and work where she wanted. In the eyes of the law she became a non-Aboriginal, but in return she could not associate with other ... Read more

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  • The colonisation of time

    Ritual, routine and resistance in the British Empire

    by Giordano Nanni ...
    Series Book 94 - Studies in Imperialism
    The Colonisation of Time is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that western-European and specifically British concepts and rituals of time were imposed on other cultures as a fundamental component of colonisation during the nineteenth century. Based on a wealth of primary sources, it explores the intimate relationship between the colonisation of time and space in two ... Read more

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