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Believing on Upside Down Country: The Changing Faith-scape of Bendigo

Believing on Upside Down Country: The Changing Faith-scape of Bendigo

Jones, Jennifer
Jones, Timothy W.
Rhook, Nadia

Paperback

Australia & OceaniaReligion General General Sociology

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 1760467278
ISBN13: 9781760467272
Publisher: Anu Press
Published: Apr 23 2026
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The city of Bendigo and surrounds, in central Victoria, Australia, is described today by its Traditional Owners, the Djaara people, as 'upside down country', because since 1851 the sacred earth has been rotated and removed by mining, changing its spiritual 'faith-scape'. Since the arrival of settlers and sojourners of European and Chinese descent, relations between peoples in this region have been powerfully shaped not only by the quest for gold and subsequent bases of material wealth, but also by developments in this religious and spiritual faith-scape. In this innovative study, the authors examine a range of historically distinctive Bendigo customs, rituals, activities and events, from the famous Easter Fair, saved for posterity by the intervention of a Chinese community figure in the 1870s, and now led each year by Djaara people, to demonstrations associated with the Bendigo mosque controversy of 2014. They find that an understanding of spirituality and belief has often been a strong basis for connecting with and showing humanity towards others. Drawing on both oral sources and the objects and spaces of the material culture of religion and belief, the authors provide a fascinating elucidation of past and present meanings of faith, in and around Bendigo, as a lived dimension of experience.

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