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Author : G. W. Trompf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521383066
Am invariable guide and analysis to pressing issues of religious and Soviet change in the Pacific.
Author : Norman C. Habel
Publisher : Study of Religions
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UCSD:31822003176153
Author : Garry Trompf
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : UCSD:31822034284323
Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth. The region is famous for its unusual new religious movements that have adapted traditional beliefs to modernity in surprising ways. As the first bibliographical survey to comprehensively cover the entire region, Religions of Melanesia is an invaluable research aid for anyone interested in this growing field. Trompf's work is a complete listing of scholarly publications and provides readable and concise descriptions that will clearly guide the researcher toward the most relevant sources. This survey covers 2188 entries organized topically and regionally. Trompf covers such subjects as traditional and modern belief systems and the emergent indigenous Christianity that has taken root. Regional coverage includes Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji.
Author : G. W. Trompf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521416917
In this ambitious study, the first monograph on religion and "the logic of retribution," Professor Trompf shows how various aspects of "payback," both negative and positive, provide the best indices to an understanding of Melanesian views of life. The book explores the reasons why people "pay back" and opens up a whole new dimension in the cross-cultural study of human consciousness. The author conducts his readers through the most complex anthropological pageant on earth, illustrating his arguments from western New Guinea to Fiji.
Author : Theo Aerts
Publisher : University of Papua New Guinea Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Melanesia
ISBN : UCSD:31822027828649
There are various modern methods of an audience-centered reading of the Scriptures. One of them is an anthropology-inspired approach which assumes that people from these parts of the world come to the Bible with quite a different set of presuppositions, grounded in their own age-old traditions. This kind of approach goes purposely away from the well-established kind of reading which is based upon past Jewish history, ancient near-Eastern customs and archaeology, Semitic philology and so on. But without denying the value of these essentially sound segments of learning, is it really necessary that Melanesians should first plunge into Western academia in order to hear God's word? Or is it no longer true that "Greeks" must not first become "Jews" before they can become Christians? The articles gathered in Traditional Religion in Melanesia, and its companion volume Christianity in Melanesia contribute to the goal just described. They make clear that religion as such was not something that was completely new for "the pagans of the past," and that as a rule, too, they were rather selective in accepting the Christian message. This accounts for some misunderstandings, but also for some very positive ways of accepting Christianity.
Author : Kenneth Nehrbass
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645080251
In this book, Kenneth Nehrbass examines the interaction between traditional or animistic religion (called kastom) and Christianity in Vanuatu. First, he briefly outlines major anthropological theories of animism, then he examines eight aspects of animism on Tanna Island and shows how they present a challenge to Christianity. He traces the history of Christianity on Tanna from 1839 to the present, showing which missiological theories the various missionaries were implementing. Nehrbass wanted to find out what experiences in the lives of the islanders distinguished those who left traditional religion behind from those who held on to it. In the end, he contends that there are twenty factors of gospel response and cultural integration that determine whether an animistic background believer will be a mixer, separator, transplanter, or contextualizer.
Author : Ennio Mantovani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Melanesia
ISBN : UCSD:31822006762728
Author : Mary N. MacDonald
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015029448738
Mararoko describes the traditional and changing life of the South Kewa people of Papua New Guinea. Through discussion of story-telling, ritual performance and the power of pigs, the author suggests that an idiom of exchange integrates the various domains of Kewa cultural experience and provides a means of change. The work is accompanied by a collection of stories, historical accounts and songs.
Author : Darrell L. Whiteman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725202191
'In Melanesians and Missionaries', one of the best of the younger generation of missionary anthropologists demonstrates that a commitment to the missionary enterprise on the part of a solid scholar facilitates, rather than hinders, the anthropological study of a missionary topic. This is better anthropology because Dr. Whiteman is able to probe more deeply into his topic and demonstrates that he understands and appreciates both Melanesians and missionaries." Charles H. Kraft, Professor of Anthropology, School of World Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena
Author : G. W. Trompf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9980650109
Author : John Howard Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Christians
ISBN : OCLC:221248749
Author : Darrell L. Whiteman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579109615
'In Melanesians and Missionaries', one of the best of the younger generation of missionary anthropologists demonstrates that a commitment to the missionary enterprise on the part of a solid scholar facilitates, rather than hinders, the anthropological study of a missionary topic. This is better anthropology because Dr. Whiteman is able to probe more deeply into his topic and demonstrates that he understands and appreciates both Melanesians and missionaries. Charles H. Kraft, Professor of Anthropology, School of World Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena
Author : John D'Arcy May
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 082641513X
The first two parts of this book present four detailed historical studies, filled with Geertzian "thick description," of the encounters of Christianity and Buddhism (universal religions with a high quotient of "transcendence") with various primal religious traditions ("biocosmic" or "immanentist") of the Asian-Pacific region, namely, Aboriginal Australia and Melanesia (Christianity) and Sri Lanka and Japan (Buddhism). In each case, the encounters represented a failure of the "great" traditions. In the third, constructive and theological part of the book, the author shows how an acknowledgment of these failures may provide a back door to dialogue.
Author : Terry C. Muck,Harold A. Netland,Gerald R. McDermott
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441246004
This comprehensive handbook provides a Christian perspective on religion and its many manifestations around the world. Written by top religion scholars from a broad spectrum of Christianity, it introduces world religions, indigenous religious traditions, and new religious movements. Articles explore the relationship of other religions to Christianity, providing historical perspective on past encounters and highlighting current issues. The book also contains articles by adherents of non-Christian religions, offering readers an insider's perspective on various religions and their encounters with Christianity. Maps, timelines, and sidebars are included.
Author : Peter Antes,Armin W. Geertz,Randi Ruth Warne
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 311017698X
Internationally recognized scholars from many parts of the world provide a critical survey of recent developments and achievements in the global field of religious studies. The work follows in the footsteps of two former publications: Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Jacques Waardenburg (1973), and Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Frank Whaling (1984/85). New Approaches to the Study of Religion completes the survey of the comparative study of religion in the twentieth century by focussing on the past two decades. Many of the chapters, however, are also pathbreaking and point the way to future approaches.