Social Teaching and Indigenous Persons (DM2470Y)

Content

The unit will provide students with an exposure to Christian Social Teaching (principally Catholic) in relation to Indigenous Peoples. The main focus is the Australian context and to issues relating to Aboriginal Australians. Relevant ecclesial, biblical and theological writings addressing indigenous social issues will be considered. Topics under discussion include: the human person, justice and reconciliation, history, land, and church involvement with indigenous people. A key resource is Dominic O’Sullivan’s ‘Faith, Politics and Reconciliation: Catholicism and the Politics of Indigeneity’.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

One level 1 unit in Missiology or Moral Theology

Pedagogy

Lectures, interactive engagement and Tutorials

Indicative Bibliography

• Arbuckle, Gerald A. Culture, Inculturation and Theologians. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1996.
• Copeland, M.Shawn. Enfleshing Freedom. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010.
• Cornish, Sandie. The Catholic Human Rights Tradition and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Melbourne: Collins Dove, 1994.
• Cullen, P, B.Hoose and Gerard Mannion, eds. Catholic Social Justice: Theological and Practical Explorations. Maiden Lane, NY: Continuum, 2007.
• Duncan, B. The Church’s Social Teaching: From Rerum Novarum to 1931. Melbourne: Collins Dove, 1991.
• Duncan, B. Social Justice: fuller life in a fairer world. Mulgrave, Vic.: John Garratt, 2012.
• Fletcher, Frank, edited by Fabian Byers. Jesus and the Dreaming, Strathfield, NSW: St Paul’s Publications, 2013.
• Hall, Gerard and Joan Hendriks, eds. Dreaming a New Earth. Melbourne: Mosaic Press, 2012.
• Hogan, M. Australian Catholics. The Social Justice Tradition. Melbourne: Collins Dove, 1993.
• Massingale, Bryan N. Racial Justice and the Catholic Church. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2010.
• McCarthy, David Matzko, ed. The Heart of Catholic Social teaching: Its Origins and Contemporary Significance. Grand Rapids, Ml: Brazos Press, 2009.
• McKenna,Kevin E. Catholic Social Teaching. Notre Dame Indiana: Ave Maria Press, 2002.
• Nardoni, Enrique. Rise up, O Judge: A Study of Justice in the Biblical World. Peabody, MA: Hendrikson, 2004.
• O’Sullivan, D. Faith, Politics and Reconciliation: Catholicism and the Politics of Indigeneity. Adelaide: ATF Press, 2005.
• Prowse, Christopher C, ‘Racist Attitudes Towards Aboriginal Australians in the Light of Contemporary Catholic Concepts of Sin and Conversion’. Doctoral Dissertation, Pontifical Lateran University, 1995.
• Turner, Margaret Kemarre Turner OAM. Iwenhe Tyerrtye – what it means to be an Aboriginal person. Alice Springs, NT: IAD Press, 2010.
• Walker, Vicki, Aboriginal Catholic Ministry Melbourne. Invisible no more: the story of the foundation and development of the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry Melbourne. Thornbury, Victoria: ACM Thornbury 1996.

Assessment