Author: Maria Dlugosz
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Category : Enga (New Guinea people)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Mae Enga Myths and Christ's Message
Author: Maria Dlugosz
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Category : Enga (New Guinea people)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Publisher:
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Category : Enga (New Guinea people)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Women as Unseen Characters
Author: Pascale Bonnemère
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220137X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Rituals have always been a focus of ethnographies of Melanesia, providing a ground for important theorizing in anthropology. This is especially true of the male initiation rituals that until recently were held in Papua New Guinea. For the most part, these rituals have been understood as all-male institutions, intended to maintain and legitimate male domination. Women's exclusion from the forest space where men conducted most such rites has been taken as a sign of their exclusion from the entire ritual process. Women as Unseen Characters is the first book to examine the role of females in Papua New Guinea male rituals, and the first systematic treatment of this issue for any part of the world. In this volume, leading Melanesian scholars build on recent ethnographies that show how female kin had roles in male rituals that had previously gone unseen. Female seclusion and the enforcement of taboos were crucial elements of the ritual process: forms of presence in their own right. Contributors here provide detailed accounts of the different kinds of female presence in various Papua New Guinea male rituals. When these are restored to the picture, the rituals can no longer be interpreted merely as an institution for reproducing male domination but must also be understood as a moment when the whole system of relations binding a male person to his kin is reorganized. By dealing with the participation of women, a totally neglected dimension of male rituals is added to our understanding.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220137X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Rituals have always been a focus of ethnographies of Melanesia, providing a ground for important theorizing in anthropology. This is especially true of the male initiation rituals that until recently were held in Papua New Guinea. For the most part, these rituals have been understood as all-male institutions, intended to maintain and legitimate male domination. Women's exclusion from the forest space where men conducted most such rites has been taken as a sign of their exclusion from the entire ritual process. Women as Unseen Characters is the first book to examine the role of females in Papua New Guinea male rituals, and the first systematic treatment of this issue for any part of the world. In this volume, leading Melanesian scholars build on recent ethnographies that show how female kin had roles in male rituals that had previously gone unseen. Female seclusion and the enforcement of taboos were crucial elements of the ritual process: forms of presence in their own right. Contributors here provide detailed accounts of the different kinds of female presence in various Papua New Guinea male rituals. When these are restored to the picture, the rituals can no longer be interpreted merely as an institution for reproducing male domination but must also be understood as a moment when the whole system of relations binding a male person to his kin is reorganized. By dealing with the participation of women, a totally neglected dimension of male rituals is added to our understanding.
Religions of Melanesia
Author: Garry Trompf
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1567206662
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1567206662
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
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.
Transcendence and Violence
Author: John D'Arcy May
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826415134
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826415134
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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.
Missionalia
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Contains abstracts of missiological contributions, book reviews, and articles.
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Contains abstracts of missiological contributions, book reviews, and articles.
Catalyst
Journey in Faith
Author: Josef Alt
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Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Reflecting mission, practicing mission
Author: Heribert Bettscheider
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Death, Witchcraft, and the Spirit World in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Author: Neville Bartle
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Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
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Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Letters to New Guinea and Australia
Author: Arnold Janssen
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Category : Catholic Church
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Category : Catholic Church
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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