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(More customer reviews)"The Lamb Enters the Dreaming is no ordinary Australian history in many other ways. It has a depth and breadth of reflection that goes well beyond our usual topical histories.
"There is no issue that is not pursued to its last elements of relevance. It really is a mystery tour through such matters as translation, language, mission strategy, conversion, totemism, tradition, culture, sorcery, scripture, Darwinianism and evangelicalism.
"All this is done with a light touch, always with a sense of ongoing puzzlement and of closure still to come. Ludwig Wittgenstein is there - with St Augustine, E. Evans-Pritchard, Adam Kuper, Rodney Needham, Max Weber, J. H. Newman, James Clifford . . . Take your time. Enjoy the ride."
- Greg Dening, The Age. The Lamb enters the dreaming
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Written in a distinctively Australian voice, this remarkable account explores the conversion of a Wotjubaluk Aboriginal youth to Christianity in 1860. Through Nathanael Pepper's conversion, this record conducts a major reappraisal of the nature of Aboriginal and European relations in the first decades of contact in southern Australia. A unique and beautifully written blend of popular history, spirituality, culture, and personal quest, this history examines various aspects of the event, including the ritual slaughter of settlers' stock, the choice of Pepper's baptismal name, the settlers' punitive and murderous raids, and the Moravian Church's celebration of Pepper's conversion.
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