/ Michael Alroe -- Body and soul: more than an episode! / Ronald M. Berndt and Catherine H. Berndt -- Reflections on a failed crusade / Robert Tonkinson -- pt. 2. Early history and denominational developments -- 'Writing on sand': the first missions to Aborigines in Eastern Australia / Jean Woolmington -- The Aborigines and Tasmania and Christianity: an essay / N.J.B. Plomley -- Concern and contempt: church and missionary attitudes towards Aborigines in North Queensland in the nineteenth century / Noel Loos -- Lazarus at Australia's gateway: the Christian mission enterprise in eastern Cape York Peninsula / Athol Chase -- 'Pearls from the deep': re-evaluating the early history of Colebrook Home for Aboriginal Children / Jane M. Jacobs, Caroline Laurence and Faith Thomas -- The cry for justice and equality: some exceptional Protestant missionaries in Western Australia / Neville Green -- Anglican missions to Aborigines / Keith Cole -- From missions to Aboriginal churches: the Uniting Church in Australia and Aboriginal missions / Bill Edwards and Bernard Clarke -- Maverick missionaries: an overlooked chapter in the history of Catholic missions / Eugene Stockton -- pt. 3. Social contexts: colonialism, dependency and reconstruction -- Christianity, domination and resistance in colonial social relations: the case of Doomadgee, Northwest Queensland / David S. Trigger -- Dependency and assertiveness: three waves of Christianity among Pitjantjatjara people at Ooldea and Yalata / Maggie Brady and Kingsley Palmer -- Christianity full circle: Aboriginal Christianity on Yarrabah Reserve / Lynne Hume -- Bora, church and modernization at Lockhart River, Queensland / David Thompson -- The missionary factor in Adnyamathanha history / Peggy Brock -- Mt. Margaret: missionaries and the aftermath / John E. Stanton -- Riders in the chariot: Aboriginal conversion to Christianity at Kununurra / Peter Willis -- A case study in failure: Kuku-Yalanji and the Lutherans at Bloomfield River, 1887-1902 / Christopher Anderson -- Intellectual contexts: opposition, inclusion and incarnation -- Too many Captain Cooks / Chips Mackinolty and Paddy Wainburranga -- Jesus and the dingo / Deborah Bird Rose -- Mission not accomplished: Christianity in the Kimberleys / Erich Kolig -- A nativistic and millenarian movement in north west Australia / Helmut Petri and Gisela Petri-Odermann -- Nativistic movements in Aboriginal Australia: creative adjustment, protest or regeneration of tradition / Klaus-Peter Koepping -- North Australian kriol and the kriol 'Holi Baibul' / John Harris -- The dreaming and social change in Arnhem Land / Robert Bos -- Goods and gods: a follow-up study of "Steel axes for stone age Australians" / John Taylor -- The ghost of space: reflections of Warlpiri Christian iconography and ritual / Tony Swain -- The incarnation of Nambirrirrma / David H. Turner.

Papers on the impact of Christian missions on the lives of Aboriginal peoples, and the Aboriginal response to Christianity.