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Indigenous Peoples And Religious Change - 9789004138995

Un libro in lingua di Brock Peggy (EDT) edito da Brill Academic Pub, 2005

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There is still considerable debate about the factors that influence indigenous responses to the introduction of Christianity (or other religions). Brock (history, Edith Cowan U., Australia) believes that a comparative approach offers a chance to resolve some of these debates and presents ten papers that explore such encounters. After a pair of more conceptual interrogations of the topic, a group of essays consider early missions in the Pacific, Australia, and South Africa and discuss the extent to which Christianity's ability to accommodate previous beliefs and rituals conditioned relative levels of acceptance. Later chapters describing encounters in Australia, Zimbabwe, and Canada explore such issues as the importance of poverty and crime in conditioning the transformation of mission Christianity; the maintenance of indigenous social structures through the subversion of missionary expectations; and indigenous navigation between differing religious conceptualizations of the body as they relate to corporal punishment, illness, death, ideas of cleanliness, and other aspects of life. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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