Daesoon Jinrihoe in Modern Korea: The Emergence, Transformation and Transmission of a New Religion
Author/editor: Kim, David
Year published: 2020
East Asian nations shared a similar environment of modernisation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. None had been colonised under Western imperialism, but all of them commonly became subjected to new authorities, whether directly or indirectly. This change of the political landscape…
How the Personal Became Political: The Gender and Sexuality Revolutions in 1970s Australia
Author/editor: Arrow, M & Woollacott, A
Year published: 2020
How the Personal became Political brings together new research on the feminist and sexual revolutions of the 1970s in Australia. It addresses the political and theoretical significance of these movements, asking how and why matters previously considered private and personal, become public and…
Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia: Histories and Historiography
Author/editor: Rademaker, Laura & Rowse, Timothy
Year published: 2020
Histories of the colonisation of Australia have recognised distinct periods or eras in the colonial relationship: 'protection' and 'assimilation'. It is widely understood that, in 1973, the Whitlam Government initiated a new policy era: 'self-determination'. Yet, the defining features…
New Religious Movements in Modern Asian History: Socio-Cultural Alternatives
Author/editor: Kim, David
Year published: 2020
This book provides evidence that the emergence of Asian new religious movements (NRMs) was predominantly the result of anti-colonial ideology from local religious groups or individuals. The contributors argue that when traditional religions were powerless to maintain their cultural heritage, the…
Proximity and Distance: Space, Time and World War I
Author/editor: Fathi, Romain & Robertson, Emily
Year published: 2020
This book explores how participants and observers in World War I negotiated the temporal and spatial challenges of the conflict. The global magnitude of World War I has meant that proximity and distance were highly influential in the ways the conflict was conducted, and how it was experienced at…
Student Revolt in 1968 France, Italy and West Germany
Author/editor: Mercer, Ben
Year published: 2020
Student Revolt in 1968 examines the origins, course and dissolution of student protest at three universities in the 1960s - the Free University of Berlin in West Germany, the campus of Nanterre in France, and the Faculty of Sociology at Trento in Italy. It traces how student revolts over…
The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925-1931
Author/editor: May, Sally & Rademaker, Laura
Year published: 2020
Arriving in the remote Arnhem Land Aboriginal settlement of Oenpelli (Gunbalanya) in 1925, Alf and Mary Dyer aimed to bring Christ to a former buffalo shooting camp and an Aboriginal population many whites considered difficult to control. The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925 - 1931…