German Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908
Biographical note
Felicity Jensz, Ph.D. (2007), University of Melbourne, is an Honorary Fellow in History of the same university and Research Fellow at the Exzellenzcluster: Religion und Politik, Münster Universität. She has published widely on Moravian missionaries in the nineteenth century.
Readership
All those interested in mission histories, colonial studies, religious studies, transnational histories, as well as indigenous studies.
Reviews
The book is a precious contribution to the history of Chrisitan missions to the aborigines in Autralia and to the history of colonization of the Australian continent by Western powers. We can be grateful to the enlightening insights the auhtor offers us in her study, based on well applied methodologies. they allow us a contextualized reading of the history of the Moravian mission in Australia and put the local and foreign agents of that history into a historical perspective, which, finally helps us to integrate better the agents of that historical past with their particular world-views, motivations, preferred strategies and behaviour patterns into the wider perspective and dynamics of the local and global society. A past history, which still has an impact on the present situation and life of Australian society. - Paul B. Steffen, SVD in: Bibliographia Missionaria vol 74 (2010)
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