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An Exploration of Practical Reconciliation
(2010) Power, Maria E.
The project takes specific interest in: a) the marginalized status of Australian peoples of Indigenous descent b) reconciliation and c) Practical Theology as a discipline respectfully committed to particularity of context and open to multidisciplinary dialogue for creation of healing, life-enhancing, transformative and liberating responses. The Indigenous Affairs policy of the Howard Federal Government known as ‘practical reconciliation’ is the critical partner in this project’s endeavour. It is analysed using the theological method of James and Evelyn Whitehead. Emphasizing a gradually unfolding form of cross-cultural exchange used by an Indigenous group whose members identify themselves as Anangu, the content of the chapters seek to enter dimensions of multi-layered, complex, intercultural realities. Chapters I-III attend to the Whiteheads’ conversation partners of culture, tradition and experience to provide a springboard for correlation in Chapter IV followed by a set of recommendations. The work is a resource for potential fieldworkers and their managers.