Joanna Cruickshank Joanna Cruickshank i(16517878 works by)
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1 Catherine Bishop Weighs up the Life of a Briefly Infamous Woman Missionary Joanna Cruickshank , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 19 no. 2 2022; (p. 418-419)

— Review of Too Much Cabbage and Jesus Christ : Australia's 'Mission Girl' Annie Lock Catherine Bishop , 2021 single work biography

'I read Too Much Cabbage and Jesus Christ in the week that a jury in Darwin found a police constable not guilty of murdering a Warlpiri teenager named Kumanjayi Walker. The constable, an ex-soldier, shot Walker three times, claiming that the boy resisted arrest. In 1928, as this book recounts, less than 100 kilometres from where Walker was killed, more than 60 Warlpiri and Anmatyerr men, women and children were killed by gangs led by police constable William Murray. Murray, an ex-soldier, claimed the victims had resisted arrest. A public enquiry into the deaths exonerated Murray and his fellow murderers.' (Introduction)

1 Meredith Lake Explores the Bible in Australia Joanna Cruickshank , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 16 no. 4 2019; (p. 773-774)

— Review of The Bible in Australia : A Cultural History Meredith Lake , 2018 multi chapter work criticism

'Any historian who researches the role of religion – particularly Christianity – in Australian history will be aware of the fundamental challenge of convincing audiences that this is an interesting topic. The importance of religious institutions in Australia, particularly prior to the 1970s, may go without saying. But in much contemporary historical analysis, religious belief and practice appear simply as the background noise of conservatism, an indistinguishable hum against which the important matters of politics and culture play out. In Australian history, as Phyllis Mack has written in relation to the field of gender history, religion is largely seen as ‘a secondary phenomenon’, in which religious belief and concepts are significant only as they point to the more profound categories through which hierarchies of power are maintained and expressed. Alternatively, accounts of religious history by confessional historians often go to the opposite extreme of interpreting theological debates and religious experience entirely on their own terms, with no wider critical frame of reference. These various approaches to religious history – some of which I have adopted myself – may have their uses, but they do not make for particularly interesting reading.' (Introduction)

1 [Review] A White Hot Flame : Mary Montgomerie Bennett – Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice Joanna Cruickshank , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 50 no. 1 2019; (p. 151-152)

'As Sue Taffe notes at the outset of this book, Mary Montgomerie Bennett has been the focus of more than thirty scholarly books or articles, yet she remains something of an enigma. The adoring daughter of a pastoralist who dispossessed Aboriginal people in north Queensland, Bennett became a passionate and tireless advocate for the rights of Aboriginal people relatively late in life. From a historical perspective, Bennett stands out among white humanitarians of the period for her rejection of paternalism, her explicit denunciation of Aboriginal child removal and the policies that encouraged it, and her willingness to support Aboriginal political organisations.'   (Publication summary)

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