ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANA –

Annotation. The Aboriginal Gift presents Aboriginal history, traditions, spirituality, Dadirri.

“In this book, priest and archaeologist, Fr Eugene Stockton, explores the spiritual wisdom of of the Australian Aborigines, still persisting into the present. He offers the proposal that the Aboriginal perspectives on spirituality might enrich the spirituality of other Australians. He highlights the themes of Life in Common; Reverence for Life and Land; Celebrations and Sacramentality; and Dadirri Mysticism. The aim is not to appropriate Aboriginal Spirituality but to let the Indigenous insights challenge the rest of us to search their counterparts in the treasury of the Christian Tradition.”

• 170 pages ; 24 cm  #260425
• First published 1995

• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

  • Indigenous knowledge – World view
  • Religion – Spirituality
  • Stories and motifs – Creation / Cosmology
  • Religions – Christianity
  • Social organisation – Relationships
  • Ceremonies
  • Family
  • Religion – Dreaming
  • Culture – Relationship to land
  • Northern Territory Top End (NT)
  • Australia
  • Aboriginal Australians — Religion
  • Mythology, Aboriginal Australian
  • Christianity and other religions
  • Christianity — Australia
  • Australians — Religion
  • Australia — Religion