German Moravian missionaries in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908 : influential strangers /

German Moravian missionaries in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908 : influential strangers /

Focusing on the six decades that German Moravian missionaries worked in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, this book enriches understanding of colonial politics and the role of the non-British other in manipulating practice and policy in foreign realms. Central to the transnational nature of...

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Main Author: Jensz, Felicity.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill. c2010.

Series: Studies in Christian Mission 38.
Studies in Christian Mission Online, ISBN: 9789004322295.

Subjects:

Moravian Church > Missions > History > Australia > Victoria > 19th century.
Missions, German > Australia > Victoria > History > 19th century.
Germans > Australia > Victoria > History > 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians > Missions > History > Australia > Victoria > 19th century.
Victoria > Church history > 19th century.

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Call Number: BV3660.V5 J46 2010

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • F. Jensz
  • Introduction Tracing A "Wonderful Record Of Patient Continuances In Well Doing" /
  • F. Jensz
  • Chapter One. God's Lot: Moravians And Missions /
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  • Chapter Two. "The Most Wretched And Bleakest": Moravian Desire To Work Amongst The Australian Aborigines /
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  • Chapter Three. "Ein Fauler Fleck": Lake Boga, A Putrid Stain /
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  • Chapter Four. "I Is Done: No More": The First Converts /
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  • Chapter Five. "Alles Geht Seinen Schleppenden Gang" - Expansion, Movement And Sluggish Progress /
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  • Chapter Six. "Every Triumphant Death" - Closure In A British Colony /
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  • Conclusion /
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  • Appendices /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Index /
  • F. Jensz.