Indigenous peoples and religious change / edited by Peggy Brock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brock, Peggy, 1948-

Series:

Studies in Christian mission 0924-9389 ; v. 31.

Studies in Christian mission, 0924-9389 ; v. 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions--History.

Missions.

History.

Indigenous peoples--Religion.

Indigenous peoples.

Christianity and culture--History.

Christianity and culture.

Physical Description:

x, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Summary:

Ten historians and anthropologists analyse religious change as it was experienced by Indigenous Peoples in and around the Pacific and southern Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Contents:

Christianity and the first peoples: some second thoughts / Terence Ranger

Purity and pluralism: syncretism as a theological problem among Indonesia's Muslims and Christians / John Gordon

Broken tongues and foreign hearts: the religious frontier in early nineteenth-century South Africa and New Zealand / Thor Wagstrom

Outpost in Papua: Anglican missionaries and Melanesian teachers among the Maisin, 1902-1934 / John Barker

Setting the record straight: new Christians and mission Christianity / Peggy Brock

Tjukurpa Palya - the Good Word: Pitjantjatjara responses to Christianity / Bill Edwards

Experiencing Spirit: religious processes of interaction and unification in Aboriginal Australia / Fiona Magowan

Durawall of faith: Pentecostal spirituality in neo-liberal Zimbabwe / David Maxwell

House of longing: missionary-led changes in Heiltsuk domestic forms and structures / Michael Harkin

Changing concepts of embodiment and illness among the Western Arrernte at Hermannsburg mission / Jacqueline van Gent.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index.

ISBN:

9004138994

OCLC:

57352822