Professor Adam Possamai's Books

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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238

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472402979

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Invented Religions

Imagination, Fiction and Faith

By: Professor Carole M Cusack

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Invented Religions

Imagination, Fiction and Faith

By: Professor Carole M Cusack

Utilizing contemporary scholarship on secularization, individualism, and consumer capitalism, this book explores religious movements founded in the West which are intentionally fictional: Discordianism, the Church of All Worlds, the Church of the SubGenius, and Jediism. Their continued appeal and success, principally in America but gaining wider audience through the 1980s and 1990s, is chiefly as a result of underground publishing and the internet. This book deals with immensely popular subject matter: Jediism developed from George Lucas' Star Wars films; the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, founded by 26-year-old student Bobby Henderson in 2005 as a protest against the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools; Discordianism and the Church of the SubGenius which retain strong followings and participation rates among college students. The Church of All Worlds' focus on Gaia theology and environmental issues makes it a popular focus of attention. The continued success of these groups of Invented Religions provide a unique opportunity to explore the nature of late/post-modern religious forms, including the use of fiction as part of a bricolage for spirituality, identity-formation, and personal orientation.

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192

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409481034

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The Work of Antonio Sant'Elia

Retreat Into the Future

By: Meyer E. Dacosta,Esther da Costa Meyer,Antonio Sant'Elia,Professor Esther Da Costa Meyer

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The Work of Antonio Sant'Elia

Retreat Into the Future

By: Meyer E. Dacosta,Esther da Costa Meyer,Antonio Sant'Elia,Professor Esther Da Costa Meyer

Studie over het werk van de Italiaanse architect (1888-1916).

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Yale University Press

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0300043090

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9780300043099

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