Tradition

Different religions, faiths, and spiritualities in their Queensland settings.

Tradition
- Christianity, Protestant
- Confucianism
- Buddhism
- Chinese Religion
- Christianity, Catholic
- Hinduism
- Christianity, Orthodox & Eastern
- Indigenous
- Islam
- Jainism
- Judaism
- Multi-faith
- New Religious Movements
- Sikhism
- Taoism
- Zoroastrianism

Figure 2: Blue Nursing Service, Nambour Centre staff, 1966 (photographer Bill Robinson, Sunshine Coast Libraries).

Olive Crombie, Arthur Preston, and the Founding of BlueCare

During the 1950s, Olive Crombie and Arthur Preston established with the West End Methodist Mission the health service now known as BlueCare.

Figure 1: Josh Gorringe (left) and Rodney McKellar, Mithaka Country, June 2021 (QAR).

Welcome to Mithaka Country

Mithaka representative Josh Gorringe explains his sense of connection to Mithaka Country, and the work being done there to understand and care for cultural sites of significance.

Figure 2: The front façade and chapel forecourt of St Peters Lutheran College Chapel, 2016 (Lisa Daunt).

Architecture, art, and music at St Peters Chapel

Designed by Dr Karl Langer in an architecturally modernist style, the St Peters Lutheran College Chapel in Indooroopilly opened in 1968.

Figure 5: The SCQ Hatton Vale cathedral, 2004 (ACQA).

Charismatic Revivalism: Tradition and innovation in the Apostolic Church

The spirit of early Christianity inspires the community of the Apostolic Church of Queensland in Hatton Vale, a tradition that arrived from Germany in the 1880s.

Figure 9: Brisbane New Church of Jerusalem, Ann Street, c. 1930 (Robinson, 'A History of the New Church', p. 87).

Swedenborg to Soul Warrior: The Brisbane Society of the New Church

The Brisbane followers of Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg have been a small but enduring presence in the city’s religious landscape, beginning in the 1860s.

Protestants, Catholics, and the Queensland Irish Association

Protestant-Catholic tensions have been an enduring feature of Queensland social life, especially in the fractious interwar period.

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