History of Peace and Justice (CH2060P)

Content

In this unit you will explore the history of peace and justice in movements led by women and lay people. The unit focuses on Australia and the Pacific in the 19th to mid-20th century but also considers transnational influences. It includes topics such as the rise of church-based welfare, labour, Temperance, pacifism, support for mothers and children, justice for First Nations peoples, and environmentalism. You'll interpret diverse historical sources such as newspapers and advertising, poems and novels, theological text and archival records. Through historical research and theological reflection, you'll deepen your understanding of the work of women and lay people toward peace and justice.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

Prerequisite foundational CH or CT

Pedagogy

Teaching methods and learning activities will model collaboration and community building as appropriate to a unit on grassroots movements. It will involve seminars, workshops, and student-led facilitation of discussion.

Indicative Bibliography

• Appelbaum, Patricia. Kingdom to Commune: Protestant Pacifist Culture between World War I and the Vietnam Era. University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
• Cruickshank, Joanna, and Patricia Grimshaw. White Women, Aboriginal Missions, and Australian Settler Governments: Maternal Contradictions. Brill, 2019.
• Hinson-Hasty, Elizabeth. "Solidarity and the Social Gospel: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives". American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 37, no.2 (2016): 137-50.
• Murphy, John. A Decent Provision: Australian welfare policy, 1870 to 1949. Ashgate, 2011.
• Musgrove, Nell. The Scars Remain: A Long History of Forgotten Australians and Children’s Institutions. Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2013.
• Noll, Mark. The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
• Oslington, Paul, ed. Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics. Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Scott, Dorothy, and Shurlee Swain. Confronting Cruelty: Historical Perspectives on Child Abuse. Melbourne University Press, 2002.
• Stoll, Mark. Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism. Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Warne, Ellen. Agitate, Educate, Organise, Legislate: Protestant Women’s Social Action in Post-Suffrage Australia. Melbourne University Publishing, 2017.

Assessment