Campion Library: Religion Research Guides: Aboriginal Spirituality

ABORIGINAL ART & CULTURE

Pwerte Marnte Marnte Aboriginal Corporation invites us to share their culture. Their community, Arrernte, has developed this website, honoring our nation's ancestors, law and traditions.

Songlines are one of the many aspects of Aboriginal culture that artists draw on for inspiration. They are the long Creation story lines that cross the country and put all geographical and sacred sites into place in Aboriginal culture. For Aboriginal contemporary artists they are both inspiration and important cultural knowledge.

ABORIGINAL SPIRITUALITY AND CHRISTIANITY

Aboriginal Christians & Christianity
Christianity and Indigenous spirituality – an Australians Together approach
Freedom of religion, belief, and indigenous spirituality practice and cultural rights
Aboriginal Spirituality
Just do a search for aboriginal spirituality.
Freedom of religion, belief, and indigenous spirituality practice and cultural rights
Prepared for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
You gotta throw away culture once you become Christian: How 'culture' is Redefined among Aboriginal Pentecostal Christians in Rural New South Wales
This article is available through Jstor. If you want to read the full article just log in. Username and passwords available on the Search Page.

MUSIC

Music in Australia Knowledge Base
This website covers traditional musical styles, ceremonial performanace and music and religion.
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Do a search for Australian Indigenous Music Performance

CLICKVIEW VIDEOS - ABORIGINAL SPIRITUALITY

ClickView Playlist on Aboriginal Spirituality

DREAMING STORIES

Dreaming
Australian Screen Online has provided video clips related to Indigenous Australia.
Clips include teachers' notes.
Sharing our stories
"Awaye! presents six Aboriginal dreaming stories. These stories are told to children to teach them about their ancestors, the spirit world and their place in that world." ABC Radio National.
Yanyuwa
Animated dreamtime stories from the Yanyuwa people of the Northern Territory.
From ABC Splash.
Retold
A re-telling of stories and songs from "Myths and Legends of the Torres Strait"
Popular Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories
Aboriginal Dreamtime stories are one of the most important aspects of Indigenous culture.

REFERENCING

The Referencing Libguide has resources on how to cite/reference sources in research.

The Online Reference Generator allows you to create citations and bibliographies using the Harvard Referencing Style for a comprehensive list of resources.

MyBib is a free online service that allows users to generate citations and bibliographies. You can paste in a DOI, ISBN or URL and have the fields populate automatically. However it does not always provide the correct reference so you must check that all possible parts of the reference have been included.

LIBRARY CATALOGUE

The library has many books on Aboriginal culture and many creation stories. Click HERE for a list of resources on Aboriginal Spirituality

DIGITAL RESOURCES

The following PREMIUM DIGITAL RESOURCES may be useful for research in this subject . However they are password protected and when you click on any of the icons below you will be re-directed to a page that requires authentication.

Do a search for Australian Religions and then use the tags on the left to find out more click on the tags on the right.

Unit 43 - Aboriginal Beliefs and Spirituality

Find the 10 Religion - Aboriginal Spirituality Collection and search The Encyclopedia of Religion for some some good resources on Aboriginal Spirituality.