The gospel: empowering or crushing cultural identity?

From: International Review of Mission | Date: January 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Christian missionaries aided the British colonists' oppression of Australian Aborigines from 1788 to 1988 through land dispossession and the raising of Aboriginal children forcibly taken from their parents. Despite these efforts to wipe out their cultural identity, however, Aborigines, with the help of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress under the Uniting Church of Australia, have strengthened their cultural identity and regained pride in the Aboriginal roots.

In Australia, the gospel has been used for many years as a tool for crushing the cultural identity of indigenous ...

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