Title German Moravian missionaries in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908 : influential strangers / by Felicity Jensz.

Publication Info.	Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Studies in Christian mission, 0924-9389 ; v. 38
	Studies in Christian mission ; v. 38.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index.
Contents	God's lot : Moravians and missions -- "The most wretched and bleakest" : Moravian desire to work amongst the Australian Aborigines -- "Ein fauler Fleck" : Lake Boga, a putrid stain -- "I is done--no more" : the first converts -- "Alles geht seinen schleppenden Gang"--expansion, movement and sluggish progress -- "Every triumphant death"--closure in a British colony.
Summary	This book is a nuanced critique of German Moravian missionariesa (TM) work amongst indigenous Australians within British colonial Australia. It examines tensions between religion and politics and the strained positions in which the missionaries found themselves working within a settler society.
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Subject	Moravian Church -- Missions -- Australia -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century.
	Moravian Church.
	Missions, German -- Australia -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century.
	Missions, German.
	Australia.
	Victoria.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Germans -- Australia -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century.
	Germans.
	Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Australia -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century.
	Aboriginal Australians -- Missions.
	Victoria -- Church history -- 19th century.
	Church history.
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Church history.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Jensz, Felicity. German Moravian missionaries in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908. Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, ©2010 9789004179219 (DLC) 2009046088 (OCoLC)457129722
ISBN	9789004181533 (electronic book)
	9004181539 (electronic book)
	9789004179219 (cloth)
	9004179216 (cloth)
Standard No.	9786612786433

Title German Moravian missionaries in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908 : influential strangers / by Felicity Jensz.

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