TY - JOUR
KW - Religion
KW - Pacific Islanders
KW - leprosy
KW - "Person affected by leprosy" 
KW - Indigenous Australians
KW - Friday Island
KW - Diocese of Carpentaria
KW - Christianity
KW - Anglo-Catholicism
AU - O’Brien A
AB - The 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.
BT - History Australia
CN - OBRIEN 2008
CY - s.l.
IS - 2
LA - eng
M1 - 2
N2 - The 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.
PP - s.l.
PY - 2011
T2 - History Australia
TI - ‘All creatures of the Living God’: Religion and leprosy in turn of the century Queensland
UR - http://journals.publishing.monash.edu/ojs/index.php/ha/article/view/235
VL - 5
SN - 1833-4881
ER -