Humanities Research Vol. XII No 1, 2005

Table of Contents

Contributors

1. Bigotry and Religion in Australia, 1865-1950

2. In Memoriam Patrick O’Farrell

3. Double Jeopardy: Catholic and Irish

4. Interpreting Aboriginal Religion: From Nineteenth-Century Evolutionism to Durkheimian Sociology

5. You in Your Small Corner: The Love Song of Alfred J Dyer: Early Days of Church Mission Society Missions to the Aborigines of Arnhem Land

Notes on approach

6. Mutual Conversion?: The Methodist Church and the Yolŋu, With Particular Reference to Yirrkala

Introduction: beginnings and biases

The dialogue commences

The discourse develops

Mutual doubts

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

7. Was It Ever So?: Anti-Semitism in Australia 1860–1950?

An Antipodean Liberal Polity?

Modelling Anti-Semitism

The Australian Experience

Conclusion

8. A ‘Successful Experiment’ No More: The Intensification of Religious Bigotry in Eastern Australia, 1865–1885

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9. A ‘Region of Indecency and Pruriency’: Religious Conflict, Female Communities and Health Care in Colonial New South Wales

Introduction

Colonial beginnings

Odium theologicum

The 1870 inquiry

Conclusion

10. Religion Matters: The Experience of Syrian/Lebanese Christians in Australia from the 1880s to 1947

11. Taking Away Joss: Chinese Religion and the Wesleyan Mission in Castlemaine, 1868

The Wesleyan Background

The Chinese in Castlemaine

Chinese Religion in Castlemaine

Who was Hoa Ah Pang?

Leong On Tong and his views of Chinese religion

Conclusions