[PDF] Catholic Church And Community In Australia eBook

Author : Patrick O'Farrell
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :

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Acclaimed history of the Catholic Church in Australia, first published in 1968 as TThe Catholic Church in Australia: A short history 1788P1967', in 1977 as TThe Catholic Church and Community in Australia: A history', and under the present title as a third revised edition in 1985. This edition includes a 4-page TAfterword from the nineties'. Includes an index, note on sources, and 14-page guide to further reading. The author holds a personal chair in history at the University of NSW. His TVanished Kingdoms: The Irish in Australia and New Zealand' (1990) was shortlisted for the National Book Council's Non-Fiction Award.

Author : Patrick James O'Farrell
Publisher :
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780170051293

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Includes brief sections on church policy toward Aborigines 1833-1977; missions, particularly in W.A.

Author : Ian Breward
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2001-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191520381

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This pioneering study of Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific Christianity opens up new perspectives on Christianization and modernization in this richly complex region. The reception of Christianity into Pacific cultures has produced strongly Christian societies. Based on research in widely scattered archives, this book not only deals with regional interactions but pays careful attention to developments in microstates, and to the variety of indigenous religious movements, which were earlier regarded as deviations from Christian orthodoxy but are now seen as significant adaptations of Christian teaching. In Australia and New Zealand too, European Christian beginnings have been given local emphases, producing Churches with distinctive identities. Lay leadership is emphasized - not only in the Churches but as part of the Christian presence in the realms of politics, business, and culture. The broad liturgical, theological, constitutional, and pastoral developments of the 19th and 20th centuries are mapped, as a context for the striking changes which have taken place since the 1960s. The dynamics of religious change and conflict, the ambiguities of religious authority, and the destructive effects of Christian colonialism on indigenous communities, especially Australian aborigines, are all frankly dealt with. The decline of the institutional impact of the Churches in Australia and New Zealand is explored, as is the growth of partnership between government and Churches in education, social welfare, and overseas aid and development. Interchange in personnel and ideas is strikingly illustrated in the missionary activities of the regional Churches and their cultural impact. The author's involvement in Church and community leadership, ecumenism, and theological education makes this volume in The Oxford History of the Christian Church a valuable addition to the series, describing both continuities with world Christianity and little-known local developments.

Author : Christopher Dowd
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 2008-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 904744308X

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Based on extensive archival research, this study shows how, in the age of ultramontanism, nineteenth-century Australian Catholicism was shaped by successive Roman interventions in local conflicts, sometimes ill-informed and harsh but tending towards a judicious balance of forces.

Author : Chris McGillion
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781865089171

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Many Catholics today described themselves as 'lapsed'. Despite a new hunger for meaning and community, it is clear that over the last decade the Australian Catholic Church has become a marginal influence on society. Repeated accusations of child sexual abuse by priests is taken as a sign of moral bankruptcy, the ongoing refusal to include women in more active roles has left many disenchanted, and attendance at Mass continues to decline. Leading commentators including Morag Fraser, Paul Collins and Damian Grace explore the crisis at the heart of Australian Catholicism. They offer a confronting analysis of the direction for the Church set by Rome, and the way in which this is stifling local initiative and alienating large numbers of Catholics from the institutional life of the Church. A Long Way from Home argues that the problem goes beyond the headlines of sexual abuse and internal dissent to issues of Vatican intervention, the abuse of authority, the decline of ritual, the development of a Catholic cultural ghetto, and the loss of a distinctive Catholic imagination.