The Christian settler imaginary: repentant remembrances of Christianity’s entanglement with settler colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand
The British colonisation of Aotearoa New Zealand and the development of nineteenth century settler society occurred within the confines of the settler imaginary. This article argues that a further specification of the Christian settler imaginary captures Christianity’s influence upon the entrenchmen...
| Authors: | ; |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
Practical theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 15, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 78-91 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles KBS Australia; Oceania RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
New Zealand
B Theology B Settler Colonialism B British Empire B Christianity B Whiteness |
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| Summary: | The British colonisation of Aotearoa New Zealand and the development of nineteenth century settler society occurred within the confines of the settler imaginary. This article argues that a further specification of the Christian settler imaginary captures Christianity’s influence upon the entrenchment of whiteness in Aotearoa. Within the spheres of education, land, and war, British settlers employed distorted theo-logics to provide divine justification for their colonising strategies and legitimise their destructive forces. By examining the historic fusion of Christianity and colonisation in these arenas we seek to lay bare the truth of the Christian settler imagination as a repentant remembrance in service of a different future. |
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| ISSN: | 1756-0748 |
| Reference: | Kommentar in "Dismantling Whiteness – A response (2022)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2021.2023948 |
