Rockchoppers: Growing Up Catholic in Australia by Edmund Campion

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, with spine tail now protected with book tape. Pages are sunned. Previous owner has inscribed author bio page. Glue is starting to perish, so front and back binding has been reinforced with tape.

In Rockchoppers, Edmund Campion examines the influences on the tribal group of Australians and finds that they maintained their links with the Irish-Australian church that 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)