Indigenous Australia and the Unfinished Business of Theology

This book engages a complex subject that mainline theologies avoid, Indigenous Australia. The heritages, wisdoms and dreams of Indigenous Australians are tormented by the discriminating mindsets and colonialist practices of non-Indigenous peoples. This book gives special attention to the torments due to the arrival and development of the church.

1. Colonization Has Many Names; Neville Naden and Jione Havea 2. Receive, Touch, Feel, and Give Raypirri; Maratja Dhamarrandji and Jione Havea 3. Seeing Otherwise: Touching Sacred Things; Rod Pattenden 4. Missionary Genocide: Moral Illegitimacy and the Churches in Australia; Sarah Maddison 5. From Little Things Big Things Grow; Mandy Tibbey 6. Reconciling a Platypus Nation: Can Churches Help? ; Margaret Tam 7. Ritual, in the Healing of Memories; John Fitz-Herbert 8. Migration and Rudd's Apology: Whose Voices are Heard, and What do They Mean for the Church? ; Chris Budden 9. In Touch out of Touch: The Church and Reconciliation; Gerard Moore 10. National Black Congress: Ambivalence and Ambiguity; William W. Emilsen 11. Formation for Ordained Ministry: Out of Touch? ; Stephen Burns 12. Envisioning an Emerging Asian Australian Christianity; Jonathan Y. Tan 13. Place and Displacement: Reading Scriptures with Indigenous Australians; L. Lee Levett-Olson 14. Hope with and Trust in Aboriginal Stories; Sang Taek Lee 15. Forgive us our Trespasses: Black Australia, Peopled Wilderness, Eroding Islands; Jione Havea