01449nas a2200253   4500000000100000008004100001260000900042653001300051653002200064653001200086653003400098653002700132653001800159653002700177653001700204653002200221100001600243245009800259856007600357490000600433050001600439520072600455022001401181       2011                            d  as.l.10aReligion10aPacific Islanders10aleprosy10a"Person affected by leprosy" 10aIndigenous Australians10aFriday Island10aDiocese of Carpentaria10aChristianity10aAnglo-Catholicism1 aO’Brien A00a‘All creatures of the Living God’: Religion and leprosy in turn of the century Queensland  uhttp://journals.publishing.monash.edu/ojs/index.php/ha/article/view/2350 v5  aOBRIEN 20083 aThe church played a role in the ‘retainting’ of leprosy in the nineteenth century, but religious ideas had multiple effects. A small group of ‘coloured lepers’ on Friday Island responded to Christian teaching in the early 1900s, supported by Gilbert White, Anglican Bishop of Carpentaria, a vocal opponent of their incarceration. They were led first by Islander teachers and later, an Indigenous man, Thomas Moreton, whose leadership flowed from the religious to the political. An articulate voice of protest against incarceration, Moreton’s strength derived from his attachment to family, community, land and his sense of being one of the ‘creatures of the Living God’. This article has been peer-reviewed.  a1833-4881