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On Aboriginal Religion

W. E. H. Stanner

Author : W. E. H. Stanner
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,5 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.

Aboriginal Religions in Australia

Françoise Dussart,Howard Morphy

Author : Françoise Dussart,Howard Morphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 53,7 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.

Religious Change and Indigenous Peoples

Helena Onnudottir,Adam Possamai

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.

Religion and Non-Religion among Australian Aboriginal Peoples

James L. Cox,Adam Possamai

Author : James L. Cox,Adam Possamai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,7 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.

What Has No Place, Remains

Nicholas Shrubsole

Author : Nicholas Shrubsole
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781487530747

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What Has No Place, Remains by Nicholas Shrubsole Pdf

The desire to erase the religions of Indigenous Peoples is an ideological fixture of the colonial project that marked the first century of Canada’s nationhood. While the ban on certain Indigenous religious practices was lifted after the Second World War, it was not until 1982 that Canada recognized Aboriginal rights, constitutionally protecting the diverse cultures of Indigenous Peoples. As former prime minister Stephen Harper stated in Canada’s apology for Indian residential schools, the desire to destroy Indigenous cultures, including religions, has no place in Canada today. And yet Indigenous religions continue to remain under threat. Framed through a postcolonial lens, What Has No Place, Remains analyses state actions, responses, and decisions on matters of Indigenous religious freedom. The book is particularly concerned with legal cases, such as Ktunaxa Nation v. British Columbia (2017), but also draws on political negotiations, such as those at Voisey’s Bay, and standoffs, such as the one at Gustafsen Lake, to generate a more comprehensive picture of the challenges for Indigenous religious freedom beyond Canada’s courts. With particular attention to cosmologically significant space, this book provides the first comprehensive assessment of the conceptual, cultural, political, social, and legal reasons why religious freedom for Indigenous Peoples is currently an impossibility in Canada.

Interpreting Aboriginal Religion

Tony Swain

Author : Tony Swain
Publisher : Study of Religions
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,9 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.

The Knowledge Seeker

Blair Stonechild

Author : Blair Stonechild
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Education
ISBN : 088977417X

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The Knowledge Seeker by Blair Stonechild Pdf

In The Knowledge Seeker, Blair Stonechild shares his sixty-year journey of learning-from residential school to PhD and beyond-while trying to find a place for Indigenous spirituality in the classroom. Encouraged by an Elder who insisted sacred information be written down, Stonechild explores the underlying philosophy of his people's teachings to demonstrate that Indigenous spirituality can speak to our urgent, contemporary concerns.

Severing the Ties that Bind

Katherine Pettipas

Author : Katherine Pettipas
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887550317

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Severing the Ties that Bind by Katherine Pettipas Pdf

Religious ceremonies were an inseparable part of Aboriginal traditional life, reinforcing social, economic, and political values. However, missionaries and government officials with ethnocentric attitudes of cultural superiority decreed that Native dances and ceremonies were immoral or un-Christian and an impediment to the integration of the Native population into Canadian society. Beginning in 1885, the Department of Indian Affairs implemented a series of amendments to the Canadian Indian Act, designed to eliminate traditional forms of religious expression and customs, such as the Sun Dance, the Midewiwin, the Sweat Lodge, and giveaway ceremonies.However, the amendments were only partially effective. Aboriginal resistance to the laws took many forms; community leaders challenged the legitimacy of the terms and the manner in which the regulations were implemented, and they altered their ceremonies, the times and locations, the practices, in an attempt both to avoid detection and to placate the agents who enforced the law.Katherine Pettipas views the amendments as part of official support for the destruction of indigenous cultural systems. She presents a critical analysis of the administrative policies and considers the effects of government suppression of traditional religious activities on the whole spectrum of Aboriginal life, focussing on the experiences of the Plains Cree from the mid-1880s to 1951, when the regulations pertaining to religious practices were removed from the Act. She shows how the destructive effects of the legislation are still felt in Aboriginal communities today, and offers insight into current issues of Aboriginal spirituality, including access to and use of religious objects held in museum repositories, protection of sacred lands and sites, and the right to indigenous religious practices in prison.

Healing Traditions

Laurence J. Kirmayer,Gail Guthrie Valaskakis

Author : Laurence J. Kirmayer,Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780774858632

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Healing Traditions by Laurence J. Kirmayer,Gail Guthrie Valaskakis Pdf

Aboriginal peoples in Canada have diverse cultures but share common social and political challenges that have contributed to their experiences of health and illness. This collection addresses the origins of mental health and social problems and the emergence of culturally responsive approaches to services and health promotion. Healing Traditions is not a handbook of practice but a resource for thinking critically about current issues in the mental health of indigenous peoples. Cross-cutting themes include: the impact of colonialism, sedentarization, and forced assimilation; the importance of land for indigenous identity and an ecocentric self; and processes of healing and spirituality as sources of resilience.

Indigenous Peoples And Religious Change

Peggy Brock

Author : Peggy Brock
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004138995

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Indigenous Peoples And Religious Change by Peggy Brock Pdf

Ten historians and anthropologists analyse religious change as it was experienced by Indigenous Peoples in and around the Pacific and southern Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Indigenous Religious Musics

Karen Ralls-MacLeod,Graham Harvey

Author : Karen Ralls-MacLeod,Graham Harvey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351562898

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Indigenous Religious Musics by Karen Ralls-MacLeod,Graham Harvey Pdf

Celebrating the diversity of indigenous nations, cultures and religions, the essays which comprise this volume discuss the musics performed by a wide variety of peoples as an integral part of their cultural traditions. These include examinations of the various styles of Maori, Inuit and Australian Aboriginal musics, and the role of music in Korean Shaman rituals. Indeed, music forms a key component of many such rituals and belief systems and examples of these are explored amongst the peoples of Uganda, Amazonia and Africa. Through analysis of these rituals and the part music plays in them, the essays also open up further themes including social groupings and gender divisions, and engage with issues and debates on how we define and approach the study of indigeneity, religiosity and music. With downloadable resources featuring some of the music discussed in the book and further information on other available recordings, this is a book which gives readers the opportunity to gain a richer experience of the lived realities of indigenous religious musics.

Handbook of Indigenous Religion(s)

Greg Johnson,Siv Ellen Kraft

Author : Greg Johnson,Siv Ellen Kraft
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004346710

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Handbook of Indigenous Religion(s) by Greg Johnson,Siv Ellen Kraft Pdf

Consisting of original scholarship at the intersection of indigenous studies and religious studies, the Handbook of Indigenous Religion(s) includes a programmatic introduction arguing for new ways of conceptualizing the field, numerous case study-based examples, and an Afterword by Thomas Tweed.