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| Author | : W. E. H. Stanner |
| Publisher | : Sydney University Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2014-02-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1743323883 |
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Anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner is perhaps most well known for coining the phrase the 'great Australian silence', addressing the culture of denial or 'conscious forgetting' regarding the history Australia since European arrival. This reprint of On Aboriginal Religion pays tribute to the ongoing relevance of Stanner?s work. His research into Aboriginal religion was first published as a series of articles in the journal Oceania between 1959 and 1963. In 1963 the articles were published as the collection in as Oceania Monograph 11, which was later reprinted as a facsimile edition with introductory sections by Francesca Merlan and Les Hiatt (1989). As Stanner writes in his introduction to the 1963 collection, 'I thought I should take Aboriginal religion as significant in its own right and make it the primary subject of study, rather than study it, as was done so often in the past, mainly to discover the extent to which it expressed or reflected facts and preoccupations of the social order'. It is this dedication to recording the beliefs and observing the practice of Aboriginal religion that has made this monograph so important.
| Author | : Françoise Dussart |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 564 |
| Release | : 2017-09-08 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1351961276 |
Download Aboriginal Religions in Australia Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Over the last 25 years there has been an explosion of interest in the Aboriginal religions of Australia and this anthology provides a variety of recent writings, by a wide range of scholars. Australian Aboriginal Religions are probably the oldest extant religious systems. Over some 50,000 years they have coped with change and re-invented themselves in an astonishingly creative way. The Dreaming, the mythical time when the Ancestor Spirits shaped the territories of the Aborigines and laid down a moral and ritual law for their occupants, is the fundamental religious reality. It is the basis of the Aborigines's view of their land or country, kinship relationships, ritual and art. However, the Dreaming is not a static principle since it is interpreted in different ways, as in the extraordinary movement in contemporary indigenous painting, and in attempts at an accommodation with Christianity. The contributions of anthropologists, cultural historians, philosophers of religion and others are included in this anthology which not only guides readers through the literature but also ensures this still largely inaccessible material is available to a wider range of readers and non-specialist students and academics.
| Author | : James L. Cox |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2016-12-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1317067959 |
Download Religion and Non-Religion among Australian Aboriginal Peoples Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Offering a significant contribution to the emerging field of 'Non-Religion Studies', Religion and Non-Religion among Australian Aboriginal Peoples draws on Australian 2011 Census statistics to ask whether the Indigenous Australian population, like the wider Australian society, is becoming increasingly secularised or whether there are other explanations for the surprisingly high percentage of Aboriginal people in Australia who state that they have 'no religion'. Contributors from a range of disciplines consider three central questions: How do Aboriginal Australians understand or interpret what Westerners have called 'religion'? Do Aboriginal Australians distinguish being 'religious' from being 'non-religious'? How have modernity and Christianity affected Indigenous understandings of 'religion'? These questions re-focus Western-dominated concerns with the decline or revival of religion, by incorporating how Indigenous Australians have responded to modernity, how modernity has affected Indigenous peoples' religious behaviours and perceptions, and how variations of response can be found in rural and urban contexts.
| Author | : Vicki Grieves |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 70 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
| ISBN | : 9780734041029 |
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| Author | : Helena Onnudottir |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2016-04-08 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1317067029 |
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Exploring religious and spiritual changes which have been taking place among Indigenous populations in Australia and New Zealand, this book focuses on important changes in religious affiliation in census data over the last 15 years. Drawing on both local social and political debates, while contextualising the discussion in wider global debates about changing religious identities, especially the growth of Islam, the authors present a critical analysis of the persistent images and discourses on Aboriginal religions and spirituality. This book takes a comparative approach to other Indigenous and minority groups to explore contemporary changes in religious affiliation which have raised questions about resistance to modernity, challenges to the nation state and/or rejection of Christianity or Islam. Helena Onnudottir, Adam Posssamai and Bryan Turner offer a critical analysis to on-going public, political and sociological debates about religious conversion (especially to Islam) and changing religious affiliations (including an increase in the number of people who claim 'no religion') among Indigenous populations. This book also offers a major contribution to the growing debate about conversion to Islam among Australian Aborigines, Maoris and Pacific peoples.
| Author | : Peggy Brock |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2005-05-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9047405552 |
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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.
| Author | : Ronald Murray Berndt |
| Publisher | : Brill Archive |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9789004038615 |
Download Australian Aboriginal Religion Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"This work is a serious anthropological study of Australian Aboriginal religion. It is designed to be read by adults, and is primarily for use in universities and/or similar institutions. It is not, therefore, for use in schools. Where Australian Agorigines are concerned, and in areas where traditional Aboriginal religion is still significant, this book should be used only after consultation with local male religious leaders. This restriction is important. It is imposed because the concept of what is secret, or may not be revealed to the uninitiated in Aboriginal religious belief and action, varies considerably throughout the Australian continent; And because the varying views of Aborigines in this respect must on all occasions be observed. January 30th 1973 Ronald M. Berndt" --
| Author | : Tony Swain |
| Publisher | : Study of Religions |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
Download Interpreting Aboriginal Religion Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Examines the reactions, attitudes and theoretical constructions of European explorers, missionaries and writers including Howitt, Spencer and Gillen, Lang, Frazer, Durkheim, Radcliffe-Brown, Warner, Stanner and Elkin.
| Author | : Ian Keen |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1998-03 |
| Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
| ISBN | : 9780195507522 |
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Yolngu religious practices are shrouded in ambiguity--people cooperate in common religious rituals while interpreting these rituals in entirely different manners. Keen draws on recent post-structuralist social theory to discuss this heterogeneity of culture and ritual. This original approach to interpreting the heterogeneous culture of the Yolngu will be of great interest to those studying multicultural societies outside Australia, particularly in the fields of comparative anthropology and religion.
| Author | : Diarmuid O'Murchu |
| Publisher | : Orbis Books |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1608332292 |
Download In the Beginning was the Spirit Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This title provides an astonishing synthesis of humankind's understanding of the Great Spirit that energizes and runs through all creation.
