Indigenous peoples and religious change / edited by Peggy Brock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brock, Peggy, 1948-

Series:

Studies in Christian mission ; v. 31.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions--History.

Missions.

Indigenous peoples--Religion.

Indigenous peoples.

Christianity and culture--History.

Christianity and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores a range of societies in and around the Pacific and southern Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that encountered religions introduced from elsewhere, or fashioned their own responses to already established religious traditions. These changes observed through the responses of the receiving societies indicate that religious change is a creative dynamic, rather than a passive acceptance of new ideas, beliefs and practices. While change is often triggered by the introduction of new understandings, it can only become entrenched within a community when it takes on meaning for individuals, and becomes embedded within the social and cultural life of the community.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Peggy Brock

INTRODUCTION / PEGGY BROCK

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

AN 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

THE DURAWALL OF FAITH: PENTECOSTAL SPIRITUALITY IN NEO-LIBERAL ZIMBABWE / DAVID MAXWELL

THE 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

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY / Peggy Brock

INDEX / Peggy Brock.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

1-280-85959-8

9786610859597

1-4294-2704-3

90-474-0555-2

1-4337-0727-6

OCLC:

476024030

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047405559 DOI