Aboriginal Religions In Australia

Author : James L. Cox,Adam Possamai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317067955

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Religion and Non-Religion among Australian Aboriginal Peoples by James L. Cox,Adam Possamai Pdf

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 : Françoise Dussart,Howard Morphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351961271

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Aboriginal Religions in Australia by Françoise Dussart,Howard Morphy Pdf

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 : Helena Onnudottir,Adam Possamai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317067030

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Religious Change and Indigenous Peoples by Helena Onnudottir,Adam Possamai Pdf

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 : Ronald Murray Berndt
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004038612

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Australian Aboriginal Religion by Ronald Murray Berndt Pdf

"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
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X001226506

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Interpreting Aboriginal Religion by Tony Swain Pdf

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 : Ronald Murray Berndt
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004037268

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Australian Aboriginal Religion by Ronald Murray Berndt Pdf

Author : Garry Trompf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134928521

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The Religions of Oceania by Garry Trompf Pdf

More than a quarter of the world's religions are to be found in the regions of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, together called Oceania. The Religions of Oceania is the first book to bring together up-to-date information on the great and changing variety of traditional religions in the Pacific zone. The book also deals with indigenous Christianity and its wide influence across the region, and includes new religious movements generated by the responses of indigenous peoples to colonists and missionaries, the best known of these being the `Cargo Cults' of Melanesia. The authors present a thorough and accessible examination of the fascinating diversity of religious practices in the area, analysing new religious developments, and provideing clear interpretative tools and a mine of information to help the student better understand the world's most complex ethnologic tapestry.

Author : Ernest Ailred Worms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X001293483

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Australian Aboriginal Religions by Ernest Ailred Worms Pdf

English translation from Nevermann, H., Worms, E.A. and H. Petrie - Die Religionen der Sudsee und Australiens, (Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 1968) and L. Jospins French translation (Paris, Payot, 1971); q.v. for annotation and coding; lacks illustrations and most of Petris postscript.

Author : Tony Swain
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991-07-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210923533

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Aboriginal Religions in Australia by Tony Swain Pdf

Tony Swain has prepared a comprehensive bibliographical survey of all substantial publications on Aboriginal religions appearing between 1798 and early 1990. The volume opens with a three-chapter narrative section which provides the historic and analytic contexts for the cataloguing that follows. The 1,076 entries are critically annotated and classified by geography and theme. More specific investigation of selected topics can be pursued through the four indexes which, besides offering an alphabetical listing of all titles and authors, provide access by tribes and places and general subjects. The three narrative chapters explore the history of the study of Aboriginal religions, the emergence of key themes in investigating these traditions, and the unique features of the regions which provide the primary classification for the bibliography that follows. Chapter one shows how a succession of theories, conceptions, and blatant prejudices have molded the way writers approached the traditions of the Aborigines. Chapter two examines those themes scholars have felt useful in analyzing Aboriginal religions, placing their emergence in historical perspective and discussing their usefulness as conceptual tools. Finally, the third chapter highlights the unique features of the ten regions used as the primary categories of classification, describing possible historical forces which have shaped their particular forms. This first bibliography of Australian Aboriginal religions is an essential acquisition for all serious academic libraries.

Author : J. Havea
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137426673

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Indigenous Australia and the Unfinished Business of Theology by J. Havea Pdf

This book engages a complex subject that mainline theologies avoid, Indigenous Australia. The heritages, wisdoms and dreams of Indigenous Australians are tormented by the discriminating mindsets and colonialist practices of non-Indigenous peoples. This book gives special attention to the torments due to the arrival and development of the church.

Author : W. E. H. Stanner
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781743323885

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On Aboriginal Religion by W. E. H. Stanner Pdf

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 : Tony Swain,Deborah Bird Rose
Publisher : Study of Religions
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000212394

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Aboriginal Australians and Christian Missions by Tony Swain,Deborah Bird Rose Pdf

Papers on the impact of Christian missions on the lives of Aboriginal peoples, and the Aboriginal response to Christianity.

Author : Maxwell John Charlesworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521633524

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Religious Business by Maxwell John Charlesworth Pdf

This remarkable interdisciplinary collection spans twenty years of scholarship on Aboriginal religions. Contributors include Diane Bell, Ronald M. Berndt, Deborah Bird Rose, Frank Brennan, Max Charlesworth, Rosemary Crumlin, Norman Habel, Nonie Sharp, W. E. H. Stanner, Tony Swain and Peter Willis.

Author : Hilary M. Carey
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742696577

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Believing in Australia by Hilary M. Carey Pdf

Australians have been slow to appreciate the rich variety of their religious inheritance. Believing in Australia is a much-needed cultural history of Australia's many religions which goes well beyond existing studies of denominationalism. Hilary Carey traces the changes in religions practice brought by waves of migration, including European occupation and the post-war growth of Orthodox, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist communities. She also examines the slow European discovery of Aboriginal religions, the vital importance of religion for women and the recent growth of Christian fundamentalism and New Age sects. Believing in Australia demonstrates the central place of religion in the Australian experience and offers an engaging introduction to Australia's religious history for believers and non-believers alike. 'A landmark book: it opens up major new themes in Australian history which demand attention.' - Edmund Campion, Catholic Institute of Sydney 'Hilary Carey deftly weaves the histories of Australia's faith communities into a coat of many colours. Essential and absorbing reading for all who believe in Australia and its future as an integrated multi-religious nation.' - Rachel Kohn, 'Religion Today', Radio National

Author : Ronald Murray Berndt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9004037276

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Australian Aboriginal Religion by Ronald Murray Berndt Pdf