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Description
The Bible arrived down under at a time when Europeans were rethinking both Scripture and race. And from land-hungry colonists to Indigenous evangelists, white supremacists to anti-racism activists—people across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand have read it very differently, with nothing less than humanity at stake.
This lecture will explore how the Bible has been taken up down under, to contest what it means to be human and to cross cultural boundaries—and what we might learn from that today.
Speaker Bios
Dr Meredith Lake is a historian and broadcaster interested in how Australians have understood the big questions of faith and meaning. Her books include The Bible in Australia: a cultural history (NewSouth, 2018), and a major study of faith-based charity since the Great Depression, Faith in Action: HammondCare (UNSW Press, 2013).
She received her PhD from the University of Sydney for a thesis on Protestant narratives about land and the culture of settler colonialism, and remains an Honorary Associate of the Department of History there.