Author(s): Peggy Brock
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 262
List of Illustrations......Page 7
List of Contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 11
Christianity and the First Peoples: Some Second Thoughts Terence Ranger......Page 25
Purity and Pluralism: Syncretism as a theological problem among Indonesia's Muslims and Christians John Gordon......Page 43
Broken Tongues and Foreign Hearts: The Religious Frontier in Early Nineteenth-Century South Africa and New Zealand Thor Wagstrom......Page 61
An Outpost in Papua: Anglican Missionaries and Melanesian Teachers among the Maisin, 1902-1934 John Barker......Page 89
Setting the Record Straight: New Christians and Mission Christianity Peggy Brock......Page 117
Tjukurpa Palya—The Good Word: Pitjantjatjara Responses to Christianity Bill Edwards......Page 139
Experiencing Spirit: Religious Processes of Interaction and Unification in Aboriginal Australia Fiona Magowan......Page 167
The Durawall of Faith: Pentecostal Spirituality in Neo-liberal Zimbabwe David Maxwell......Page 187
The House of Longing: Missionary-led Changes in Heiltsuk Domestic Forms and Structures Michael Harkin......Page 215
Changing Concepts of Embodiment and Illness among the Western Arrernte at Hermannsburg Mission Jacqueline Van Gent......Page 237
Select Bibliography......Page 259
Index......Page 263
