One Blood: 200 Years Of Aboriginal Encounter With Christianity: A Story Of Hope
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: Second revised edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
At the crossroads of faith and colonisation, One Blood chronicles one of the most complex and consequential cultural encounters in Australian history — the 200-year relationship between Aboriginal Australians and Christianity. John Harris presents a meticulously researched account of how Christian missionaries, churches, and Indigenous communities intersected, clashed, and sometimes forged profound bonds of shared humanity across two turbulent centuries. Far from a simple narrative of imposition or resistance, the work uncovers the remarkable stories of Aboriginal men and women who embraced, shaped, and challenged the Christian faith on their own terms, weaving it into the fabric of their enduring cultures. Harris writes with both scholarly rigour and deep compassion, drawing on an extraordinary breadth of historical sources to argue that the story of Aboriginal Christianity is ultimately one of resilience and hope rather than mere subjugation. The book stands as a landmark in Australian religious and social history, compelling readers to reconsider inherited assumptions about mission history and its legacy. In a nation still grappling with the wounds of its colonial past, One Blood asks a quietly radical question: what does it mean when the colonised make a foreign faith their own?
Author: John Harris
Format: Hardback
Published: 1994, Albatross Books
Genre: Australian history
Edition: Second revised edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
At the crossroads of faith and colonisation, One Blood chronicles one of the most complex and consequential cultural encounters in Australian history — the 200-year relationship between Aboriginal Australians and Christianity. John Harris presents a meticulously researched account of how Christian missionaries, churches, and Indigenous communities intersected, clashed, and sometimes forged profound bonds of shared humanity across two turbulent centuries. Far from a simple narrative of imposition or resistance, the work uncovers the remarkable stories of Aboriginal men and women who embraced, shaped, and challenged the Christian faith on their own terms, weaving it into the fabric of their enduring cultures. Harris writes with both scholarly rigour and deep compassion, drawing on an extraordinary breadth of historical sources to argue that the story of Aboriginal Christianity is ultimately one of resilience and hope rather than mere subjugation. The book stands as a landmark in Australian religious and social history, compelling readers to reconsider inherited assumptions about mission history and its legacy. In a nation still grappling with the wounds of its colonial past, One Blood asks a quietly radical question: what does it mean when the colonised make a foreign faith their own?