| Description |
1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Studies in Christian mission, 0924-9389 ; v. 31 |
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Studies in Christian mission ; v. 31. 0924-9389
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| 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 |
| 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."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Missions - History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Missions -- History.
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Indigenous peoples -- Religion.
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Christianity and culture -- History.
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RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions.
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Christianity and culture
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Indigenous peoples -- Religion
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Missions
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Mission
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Missie.
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Inheemse volken.
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Acculturatie.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brock, Peggy, 1948-
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| ISBN |
9781429427043 |
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1429427043 |
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9789004138995 |
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9004138994 |
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9781433707278 |
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1433707276 |
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