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Religious Change and Indigenous Peoples

The Making of Religious Identities

By: Dr Helena Onnudottir,Professor Adam Possamai,Professor Bryan S Turner

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Religious Change and Indigenous Peoples

The Making of Religious Identities

By: Dr Helena Onnudottir,Professor Adam Possamai,Professor Bryan S Turner

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.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472402979

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9781472402974

Progress and Its Impact on the Nagas

A Clash of Worldviews

By: Dr Tezenlo Thong

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Progress and Its Impact on the Nagas

A Clash of Worldviews

By: Dr Tezenlo Thong

The term ‘progress’ is a modern Western notion that life is always improving and advancing toward an ideal state. It is a vital modern concept which underlies geographic explorations and scientific and technological inventions as well as the desire to harness nature in order to increase human beings’ ease and comfort. With the advent of Western colonization and to the great detriment of the colonized, the notion of progress began to perniciously and pervasively permeate across cultures. This book details the impact of the notion of progress on the Nagas and their culture. The interaction between the Nagas and the West, beginning with British military conquest and followed by American missionary intrusion, has resulted in the gradual demise of Naga culture. It is almost a cliché to assert that since the colonial contact, the long evolved Naga traditional values are being replaced by Western values. Consequences are still being felt in the lack of sense of direction and confusion among the Nagas today. Just like other Indigenous Peoples, whose history is characterized by traumatic cultural turmoil because of colonial interference, the Nagas have long been engaged in self-shame, self-negation and self-sabotage.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409468224

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9781409468226

Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being

By: Dr Lawrence W Gross

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Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being

By: Dr Lawrence W Gross

Very few studies have examined the worldview of the Anishinaabeg from within the culture itself and none have explored the Anishinaabe worldview in relation to their efforts to maintain their culture in the present-day world. Focusing mainly on the Minnesota Anishinaabeg, Gross explores how their worldview works to create a holistic way of living, which the Anishinaabeg call the Good Life. However, as Gross also argues, the Anishinaabeg saw the end of their world early in the 20th century and experienced what he calls 'postapocalypse stress syndrome.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472417348

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9781472417343

Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity

By: Dr Thomas Alberts

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Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity

By: Dr Thomas Alberts

Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity considers indigenous peoples’ struggles for human rights, anxieties about anthropocentric mastery of nature, neoliberal statecraft and entrepreneurialism of the self. In doing so, it engages with shamanism’s manifold meanings in a world increasingly sensitive to indigenous peoples’ practices of territoriality, increasingly concerned about humans’ integral relationship with natural environments, and increasingly encouraged and coerced to adjust self-conduct to comport with and augment government conduct.

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1472439848

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Book's by Dr Helena Onnudottir

Religious Change and Indigenous Peoples

Religious Change and Indigenous Peoples

Progress and Its Impact on the Nagas

Progress and Its Impact on the Nagas

Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being

Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being

Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity

Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity

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