Glossary: Church in Australia

a gift that flows from the Holy Spirit; in reference to a religious order Charism refers to the particular character or values that are evident in their apostolic work

• Charism
• Conscription
• Secularism 
• Protestant 

a making service in the armed forces compulsory (especially during time of war)

• Charism
• Conscription
• Secularism 
• Settlement 

when someone moves to live permanently in another country

• Immigration
• Conscription
• Secularism 
• Settlement 

someone who moves from one place to another where they seek work and an improved way of living

• Migrant
• Immigration 
• Secularism 
• Settlement 

Churches that have their origins in the reformation period during the sixteenth century; having broken away from the Catholic Church

• Migrant
• Immigration 
• Protestant
• Settlement 

division based on adherence to a particular set of beliefs and the rejection of others

• Migrant
• Immigration 
• Sectarian 
• Settlement 

discriminating against some members of society based on their religious beliefs. e.g. the past social and economic division of society between Catholic and Protestant Australians.

• Migrant
• Immigration 
• Sectarianism 
• Settlement 

the separation of religious beliefs and values from public life

• Migrant
• Immigration 
• Sectarianism 
• Secularism 

the colonisation of the Australian mainland by British authorities, convicts and free settlers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

• Settlement
• Immigration 
• Sectarianism 
• Secularism 

the ideas, customs and social behaviours that are characteristic to a group of people.

• Cultural
• Secular
• Demographic 
• Diversity