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2023; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 38; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/0458063x.2022.2154512

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Stephen Burns,

Religion, Society, and Development

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeKeywords: First PeoplesAustraliacolonialismdecolonizinglandcontrapuntalityBook of Common Prayer Additional informationNotes on contributorsStephen BurnsStephen Burns is a professor of liturgical and practical theology at Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia. Among his publications are From the Shores of Silence: Conversations in Feminist Practical Theology (ed. with Ashley Cocksworth and Rachel Starr; London: SCM Press, 2022); Feminist Theology: Interstices and Fractures (ed. with Rebekah Pryor; Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023), and Conversations About Divine Mystery: Engagements with the Work of Gail Ramshaw (ed. with HyeRan Kim-Cragg; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2023).Notes1 “Melbourne retains top 10 spot in most liveable cities index,” SBS News, June 23, 2022, https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/melbourne-retains-top-10-spot-in-most-liveable-cities-index/or55s2yii.2 First Nations National Constitutional Convention, “Uluru Statement from the Heart” (Uluru, Northern Territory, 2017), https://ulurustatement.org/the-statement/.3 Garry Deverell, Gondwana Theology: A Trawloolway Man Reflects on Christian Faith (Melbourne: Morning Star, 2018), 21.4 Meredith Lake, The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2018), 32.5 Lake, The Bible, 2–3 and 39–41.6 Lake, 32.7 Charles Sherlock, Australian Anglicans Remember (Mulgrave: Broughton Books, 2015), 21.8 As one concerned about inclusive language, I appreciate the practice of Reformed Judaism to render the Tetragrammaton as “the Eternal.” See throughout Movement for Reformed Judaism, Forms of Prayer (London: MRJ, 2008).9 James H. Tuckey, An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip in Bass’s Strait on the south coast of New South Wales, in His Majesty’s Ship Calcutta, in the years 1802–3–4 (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805), https://archive.org/details/AnAccountOfAVoyageToEstablishAColonyAtPortPhilipInBasssStraitOn/page/n259/mode/2up. See: faces, 166, 175; naked and unarmed, 168; hostile, 167; savage, 174; devoid, 184; disagreeable, 171; beastly, 177.10 Tuckey, An account, 167, 172, and 174.11 Tucky, 176.12 John J. Shillinglaw, ed., Historical Records of Port Philip (1878), https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1304081h.html.13 “Colonial Frontier Massacres, Australia, 1788-1930,” https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/map.php.14 A Prayer Book for Australia [hereafter APBA] (Alexandria: Broughton Books, 1995), 201–2; Janet Morley, All Desires Known (London: SPCK, rev. ed. 2005), 59–60.15 The prayer on APBA, 218–219, is widely known to be based on Lenore Parker’s. See https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/grafton/first-aboriginal-deacon-ordained/news-story/aa8ef7a579a73dff9f67c7e40ec32672.16 APBA, 218–219. This is not one of the three items listed under “Australia” in the index.17 Uniting in Worship 2 [hereafter UiW2] (Sydney: Uniting Church Press, 2005), 2, 212, and 317. As of 1977, the UCA is a union of Congregationalists and Methodists and some Presbyterians.18 UiW2, 239. There have been more land acknowledgements published online. See: https://assembly.uca.org.au/cudw/worship-resources-and-publications/item/860-orders-of-service-ordering-of-the-church.19 On APBA: Stephen Burns, “That Was Then, This is Now: A Prayer Book for Australia,’” Australian Journal of Liturgy 16, no. 1 (2018): 20–40; on UiW2: Stephen Burns, Pilgrim People: An Invitation to Worship in the Uniting Church (Adelaide: MediaCom, 2012).20 “The Revised Preamble,” United Church in Australia (2009), https://assembly.uca.org.au/hef/item/668-the-revised-preamble.21 See the special edition of Uniting Church Studies 16, no. 1 (2010); and Geoff Thompson, Disturbing Much, Disturbing Many: Theology Provoked by the Basis of Union (Melbourne: Morningstar, 2016), 173–88.22 Alison Overeem, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania, July 2022. I was present.23 An astonishingly beautiful version of “Spring Song” is by Judy Jacques, on Making Wings, Wild Dog Hill Studios, 2002, from which this transcript and translation are taken, http://www.wilddoghill.com.au/judy_jacques/index.htm. Sleeve notes add: “‘spring song’ was transcribed by alice m. moyle and included in her paper ‘tasmanian music, an impasse?’ published in 1968.”24 See Stephen Burns and Anita Monro, eds., Christian Worship in Australia (Strathfield: St Pauls, 2009).25 See Alan Cadwallader, ed., In the Land of Larks and Heroes: Reflections on St Mary MacKillop (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2010). Note also that MacKillop is commemorated in the Uniting Church calendar. See UiW2, 569.26 See Katharine Massam, “‘How Could It Be Otherwise?’ Sacramental Imagination and Political Rites,” in Contemporary Feminist Theologies: Power, Authority, Love, ed. Kerrie Handasyde, Cathryn McKinney, and Rebekah Pryor (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021), 79–80.27 See UiW2, 569 and 570, https://assembly.uca.org.au/cudw/worship-resources-and-publications/item/1354-a-calendar-of-other-commemorations.28 Massam, “How Could It Be,” 81–82. Use of a Message Stick is best done at the invitation of, or at least with permission from, local First Peoples—so that its use arises out of relationship and according to their directions for its use.29 Deverell, Gondwana Theology, 31.30 Rennie Chow Choy, Ancestral Feeling: Postcolonial Thoughts on Western Cultural Heritage (London: SCM Press, 2020), 22–26.31 Cf. the Pasifika (Tongan, Australian-resident) neighbor’s notion that “Out of the waters of mighty ocean, baby Earth was born.” Jione Havea, “Ocean Sunday,” in The Season of Creation: A Preaching Commentary, ed. Normal C. Habel, David Rhoads, and H. Paul Santmire (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2011), 180.32 Wali Fejo, “The Voice of the Earth: An Indigenous Reading of Genesis 9,” in The Earth Story in Genesis, ed. Norman C. Habel and Shirley Wurst (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000), 141 and 146.33 Fejo, 143.34 Fejo.35 Fejo, 145.36 APBA, 219.37 Gordon W. Lathrop, The Assembly: A Spirituality (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2022), 133–134.38 Fejo, “The Voice of the Earth,” 140.39 Anne Pattel-Gray, The Great White Flood: Racism in Australia (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998), xviii.40 Neville Nadan and Jione Havea, “Colonization Has Many Names,” in Indigenous Australia and the Unfinished Business of Theology: Cross-cultural Engagement, ed. Jione Havea (New York: Palgrave, 2013), 4.41 Nadan and Havea, 7.42 On contrapuntality as postcolonial juxtaposition, see Michael N. Jagessar and Stephen Burns, Christian Worship: Postcolonial Perspective (Sheffield: Equinox, 2011), 75–79.43 Jione Havea, “Out of Touch,” in Doing Theology in the New Normal: Global Perspectives, ed. Jione Havea (London: SCM Press, 2021), 147.44 Tusiata Avia, The Savage Coloniser Book (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2021), 25.45 See “Commination,” BCP, https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/book-common-prayer/commination.46 See James Thomson, “Rule, Britannia,” 1740, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule,_Britannia!47 See Stephen Pickard, “‘Home Away from Home’: Displacement, Identity, and Anglican Ecclesiology in Australasia,” in Oxford Handbook of Anglican Studies, ed. Mark D. Chapman, Sathianathan Clarke, and Martyn Percy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 210.48 See Jione Havea, “Forgive Us Our Trespasses: Black Australia, Peopled Wilderness, Eroding Islands,” in Indigenous Australia and the Unfinished Business of Theology (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014), 207–220. The very title of the chapter in this context raises the question of how “the Lord’s Prayer” is to be prayed justly in this land of “the Lord’s bounty.”49 UiW2, CD-rom, Canticle 30, stanza 11.50 R. S. Sugirtharajah, The Postcolonial Biblical Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998), 18–19. See also Jagassar and Burns, Christian Worship, 2.51 See Editorial Board, The Liturgical Conference, https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=ultg20.52 Rosemary Radford Ruether, America, Amerikkka: Elect Nation and Imperial Violence (Sheffield: Equinox, 2007), 1.53 Ruether, 2.