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SOR Syllabus
ABORIGINAL SPIRITUALITY
Effects of Dispossesion
Separation from Kinship Groups: "Whole communities lost their confidence in bringing up their own children" - The Bringing them Home Report of 1997
Continuing effects of dispossession: "They couldn’t wash away sixty thousand years of Dreaming and history that tie me forever to this sacred land" - Rhonda Spratt, Alice's
Separation from the Land: The land is our food, our culture, our spirit and identity. - S. Knight, 1996
The stolen generations - Assimilation Policy 1910-1970
Land Rights Movement
Native Title 1993:
Native Title Amendment 1997: Returned the power to state governments who could extinguish native title in the national interest
The recognition of existing land rights for all who owned ‘freehold land' but proof of continued association with land was required.
Wik 1996: native title could exist alongside pastoral leases
Mabo 1992
Overturned the principle of Terra Nullius as Islanders been the original owners before European settlement.
Led to Native Title: Native title may apply to all claims to land that had not been sold or given away applied to vacant land etc crown land .
Contemporary Aboriginal Spirituality
Kinship : “Kinship is the completeness of the oneness”- The system of relationships and the rights and obligations they involve.
Ceremonial Life: connect Aboriginal people to the Dreaming.Ceremonies recreate stories of the Dreaming, spiritually connecting participants with spirit ancestors, offering a link between Aboriginal people, land and identity.
The Dreaming
Kanyini: Bloodline, Ceremonial Line, Totem Line, Language Line
Obligations to the Land and People
Sacred Law
Totemism: A metaphysical connection of Dreaming kinship
The Aboriginal Peoples believed they were formed from the land and they have an obligation to care for it. They believe that if they do not care for it and perform sacred ceremonies, the land will lose its ability to renew itself, and disasters may occur.
Reconciliation
Background to reconciliation: “Reconciliation means oneness of people in heart mind and spirit; unity brings everyone together to be able to succeed” - Miliwanga Wurrben, Rembarrnga women, 2017
Christianity:
The Anglican Church: Anglicare and the Anglican Board of Missionaries formed the Anglican Reconciliation Working Group which provides accommodation, family support etc. in rural and remote Indigenous communities.
NCCA Advocating for the Yes Vote
Catholic Church: National Reconciliations week, Caritas
Other religious Traditions:
Judasiam: In 2006 The Executive Council of Australian Jewry implemented ‘Reconciliation Action Plan.’
2019 NSW Jewish Board of Deputies hosted a special Shabbat Service and dinner at the Great Synagogue for Aboriginal community leaders.
Reconciliation movements:
NAIDOC Week
Uluru Statement from the heart: Seeks to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are acknowledged and listened to at the decision-making tables and in all law-making processes.
Sorry Day
Close the Gap Statement of Intent
Bringing them Home Report
CHRISTIANITY
Baptism
Significance
Individual: "What are you waiting for? Get up be baptised and wash your sins away" Acts 22:16
Community: "For all of you who were baptised have clothes yourselves with christ"
Connection to principle beliefs:
Jesus divinity and Humanity: "As soon as Jesus was baptised heaven was opened and he saw the spirit of God descending" Mathew 3:16
Death and Resurrection: "Having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead”
Holy Trinity: "I baptise you in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit" - opening prayer
Revelation: "When we were joined with Christ in Baptism we joined him in death" Romans 6:3
Salvation: " "Unless one is born of water (baptised) we cannot enter the Kingdom of God" John 3:5
Martin Luther
Theology
Sola Fide: "For it is by grace you have been saved by faith" Ephensians 2:8-9
Sola Chrisis
Sola Scriptura: The ture teasure of the church is the most holy gospel of the glory and grace of God" 95 Theses
Impacts
Translating the vernacular: "Suddenly there was light in the homes of people who wanted to followed Christ"
95 Theses:
Challenged Papal Authority: "we are all consecrated as priests by baptism"
Ethics
Stewardship: “Lord God took man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it” (Gen 2:15).
E.g. Christian Organisation Climate Stewards, have led their ongoing Kenya Tree Planting Project to enable local Kenyans to be stewards and protect/restore the earth’s integrity.
Justice and Peace: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness” (Matthew 5:6)
E.g. Plant with Purpose is a Christian non-profit organisation who empower participating communities through programs which equip farming families around the world to increase farm yields, heal damaged ecosystems, improve nutrition, and increase household savings and opportunities.
Human Dignity: “love your neighbour as yourself” Mt 22:39.
E.g Baptist World Aid have responded to the ongoing Horn of Africa Drought by introducing a ‘Hunger Crisis Appeal’ that ensures that those from the Horn of Africa are provided for food and water so that they may retain their dignity.
ISLAM
Sayid Qutb
Law Hakimiyyah
"Follow Allah's intention for the world" Surah 30:30
Jahiliyya: Ignorence for the divine presence
"Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation that i half Islam and half Jahiliyyah" Milestones
Jihad: The stuggle to return society to a truley Islamic World
The Jihad of Islam is to secure complete freedom for every man.. so that he may serve his Lord"
Hajj
Significance
“Visiting the house is a duty to Allah by all who can make the journey” Qur’an 3:97.
Stages
Sa'y: "Safe and Marwah are amoung the symbols of Allah" Qur'an 2:1
Wuquf: "Hajj wipes out whatever cam before it" Hadith Sahih al Bakhari
Tawarf: "All that is in the heavens and on the earth extols and glorifies Allah, for he is the tremendous, the wise" Qur'arn
Jamarat
Ihram: All people are as equal as the teeth of a comb" Muhamad
Nahr: "Feed the needy who are content and those who are distressed"
Environmental Ethics
Akra: E.g. Green Hajj Initiatives
Mizaan: “He has set up the balance, in order that you may not transgress balance” QUR’AN 55:7–8
Khalifa: “It is he who appointed you caliph on this earth” (Surah Al-Fatir 35:39)
E.g. Shari'a & Islamic Declaration on Climate Change
Amana: “O Children of Adam!… Eat and drink but waste not in excess, for God does not love the wasters.”(Qur’an 7:31)
Taweed: “He it is who created for you, all that is on earth” (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:29) E.g. Halal Food Laws
AUSTRALIA POST 1945
Religious Landscape
Current and Changing Religious Patterns: 1. Christianity 2. No Religion 3. Islam 4. Hinduism 5. Buddism
Christianity as the major religious tradition
1.Anglican 13.3 - 9.8
Catholicism: 22.6 - 20
Baptist: 1.5 - 1.5
Earstern Orthodox
Lutheran
Pentecostal
Presbyterian and Reformed
Uniting
Christian nff
Immigration
2nd Wave 1970s
White Australia Policy (WAP) was officially abolished in 1973, allowing migrants from Asia, particularly after the Vietnam War.
Islam- Lebanon, Pakistan, Turkey, wider Middle East, Africa.
Hindusim- India
Buddhism from Vietnam, China to Australia.
3rd Wave
Islam: Afganistan War, Iraq War, Syrian Civil War
First Wave Post WII
Judaism- Holocaust survivors from Germany, Austria and Italy Catholicism- economic migrants from Italy and Croatia Orthodoxy- Displaced people from Serbia and Greece
Denominational Switching
Rise of New Age Religions
Secularism
Religious Dialogue
Ecumenism
Uniting Church 1977
All Methodists, 65% of Presbyterians, and 95% of Congregationalists united to form the Uniting Church in Australia .
Their stated calling was to “to bear witness to the unity of faith and life in Christ, rising above cultural, economic, national and racial boundaries.”
NCCA 1994
Made up of Anglicans, Protestants, Catholics, Uniting Church and Orthodox to express more visibly the unity desired by Christ.
Promotes collaboration in social justice initiatives among Christian groups via the international aid organisation ‘Act for Peace → sends aid to suffering communities and to counter injustice and poverty, organising campaigns such as the ‘Christmas Bowl’ appeal.
21st of February, Faith Leader’s Open Letter to Federal Parliamentarians on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice Referendum
NSW Ecumenical Council 1982
Consists of 16 Churches in NSW and ACT
and allow different churches to reflect on theology in a united way and provides local initiatives to promote ecumenism
Organisation of youth summits, such as Together for Humanity, supporting secondary school students develop intercultural understandings.
Domestic violence information program that encourages churches to help tackle family violence.
Interfaith Dialouge
NSW Council of Christian and Jews 1989
Aim: To foster relationships within the Muslim-Christian community and address misconceptions. Function: Organise dialogues and events in order to facilitate discussion and become a resource of information for adherents.
The Columban Centre for Christian- Muslim Relations (CMR)
Activities include annual Passover demonstrations designed to educate non-Jews. Annual commemoration service for the Holocaust held in St Mary's Catholic Cathedral