Indigenous peoples and religious change /

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Other Authors: Brock, Peggy, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
Series:Studies in Christian mission, v. 31
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Table of Contents:
  • PART ONE: CONCEPTUALIZING RELIGIOUS CHANGE
  • 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
  • PART TWO: MISSION ENCOUNTERS
  • 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
  • PART THREE: TRANSFORMING CHRISTIANITY
  • Experiencing Spirit: religious processes of interaction and unification in Aboriginal Australia / Fiona Magowan
  • Durawall of faith: Pentecostal spirituality in neo-liberal Zimbabwe / David Maxwell
  • PART FOUR: ASSIMILATING CHANGE
  • 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.