The religions of Oceania / Tony Swain and Garry Trompf
- Bib ID:
- 2044485
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Swain, Tony, 1955-
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 1995
- 244 p. : map ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0415060184
- 0415060192 (paperback)
- Series:
- Library of religious beliefs and practices.
- Summary:
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Overview of traditional and introduced indigenous religion in Australia and Oceania; Australian cosmology based on enduring place and rebirth through initiation; external innovations from Macassans, All-Mother cults; response to European settlement in All-Father cult in southeastern Australia, Mulunga cult, Kimberley heroes; cargo cult in wartime; resistance to evangelising missions but accommodation to Christianity through maintenance of parallel worldviews of laws, alliance of laws but doubts synchretism occurred; Pentecostal revivals and rise of evangelical indigenous church; movement away from spiritualism of place to relationship with land through Mother Earth.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [221]-233.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Religion
- Aboriginal Australians -- Rites and ceremonies
- Christianity -- Melanesia
- Stories and motifs - Cultural heroes
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Religions - Christianity - Pentecostalism - Assemblies of God
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Oceania -- Religion
- Australia -- Religion
- Melanesia -- Religion
- Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51, SE52)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Trompf, G. W
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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