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The subject of this chapter is food, specifically bread, which is essential for the health of human bodies and is a source of “almost one quarter of humanity’s calories.”1 Bread is what the many consume. Before humans can begin to ponder the weighty issues of justice, wisdom, and ethics, so central to postcolonial theology, we need to eat.
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Susan Dworkin, The Viking in the Wheat Field: A Scientist’s Struggle to Preserve the World’s Harvest (New York: Walker & Company, 2009), Kindle e-book. Location 227 of 3891, 174 of 3891.
See William Cavanaugh, Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2008);
William Cavanaugh, Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics and the Body of Christ (Oxford; Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 1998);
William Cavanaugh, “The World in a Wafer: A Geography of the Eucharist as Resistance to Globalization,” Modern Theology 15 (1999): 181–196.
Ibid., 77, drawing on Hans Urs von Balthasar, A Theology of History (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1963).
John McDowell, “Feastings in God at Midnight: Theology and the Globalised Present,” Pacifica 23 (2010): 320.
Mike Featherstone, Scott Lash, and Roland Robertson, eds., Global Modernities (London; Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1995);
Roland Robertson, Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture (London: Sage, 1992);
Roland Robertson, “Glocalization: Time-Space and Homogeneity-Heterogeneity,” in Global Modernities, eds. Scott Lash and Roland Robertson (London: Sage, 1995).
Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies. Research and Indigenous Peoples (London and New York: Zed, 2004), 14.
Ziauddin Sardar, Postmodernism and the Other. The New Imperialism of Western Culture (London and Sterling, Virginia: Pluto, 1998), 13–14.
Lamin Sanneh, Encountering the West. Christianity and the Global Cultural Process: The African Dimension (London: Marshall Pickering, 1993).
Andrew F. Walls, The Missionary Movement in Christian History. Studies in the Transmission of Faith (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1996).
Introductory comments by Series Editor, David Cahill in Patricia Grimshaw and Andrew May, eds., Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange (Eastbourne and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2010), x.
Grimshaw and May, eds., Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange, 2010.
Tracey Spencer, “Getting off the Verandah: Contextual Australian Theology In-Land and in Story,” Pacifica 19 (October 2006): 323–340.
There is no mention of communion in A. E. Gerard, History of the UAM. Coming of Age of the United Aborigines Mission, (Adelaide: The Mission 194-?. [Exact date unknown]) or in Dom Eugene Perez, Kalumburu. “Formerly Drysdale River.” Benedictine Mission North-Western Australia (Perth: Abbey Press, 1958).
Matthew Hale, The Aborigines of Australia (London: SPCK, 1889), 97.
S. M. Johnstone, A History of the Church Missionary Society in Australia and Tasmania (Sydney: Church Missionary Society of Australia and Tasmania, 1925), 181.
Stanley Skreslet, Picturing Christian Witness. New Testament Images of Disciples in Mission (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2006), 141.
Paulos Mar Gregorios, “Christology and Creation,” in Animals and Christianity. A Book of Readings, ed., Andrew Linzey and Tom Regan (London: SPCK, 1989), 27.
See also Eugene F. Rogers, After the Spirit. A Constructive Pneumatology from Resources outside the Modern West (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2006), 206–7: “[t]he distance between Christ and the Spirit, Ascension and Pentecost, heaven and earth is being crossed and embraced. It is becoming a measure … of the even more infinite activity of the Trinity in incorporating creation in its bosom, into its life.”
Norman Habel, Reconciliation: Searching for Australia’s Soul (Sydney: Harper Collins, 1999), 152, as cited in Spencer, “Getting off the Verandah,” 334.
William Cavanaugh, Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics and the Body of Christ (Oxford; Malden: Blackwell, 1998), 280.
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Taylor, S., Matton-Johnson, T. (2014). This is my body? A postcolonial Investigation of indigenous Australian Communion Practices. In: Brett, M.G., Havea, J. (eds) Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Theologies. Postcolonialism and Religions. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137475473_13
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