Description: This book is a nuanced critique of German Moravian missionaries' work amongst indigenous Australians within British colonial Australia. It examines tensions between religion and politics and the strained positions in which the missionaries found themselves working within a settler society.
Review Quotes: "Jensz schreibt die Geschichte der Herrnhuter Mission in Australien neu und geht in diesem Zusammenhang zurück auf Quellen, die tatsächlich schon lange auf eine > warten, wie Jensz einen Deutschen Herrnhuter zitiert." Gabriele Richer, in: Interkulturelle Theologie, 1-2 (2013).
"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).