Rockchoppers: Growing Up Catholic in Australia by Edmund Campion

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Some foxing to foredges.

In Rockchoppers, Edmund Campion examines the influences on the Australian tribal group and finds that they maintained their links with the Irish-Australian church, which had given them a people's religion, rich in symbolic language and strict in its morality.

Outside the church, an unfriendly society seemed to menace them. In response, they turned to their own defensive structures, such as the B A Santamaria movement. In exploring the experience of Catholics in colonial culture, Champion offers insights into the broader question of religious minorities finding their place in a pluralist society. (back cover)