Religions Of Melanesia
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Religions of Melanesia
Author: Garry Trompf
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date: 2006-09-30
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.
Traditional Religion in Melanesia
Author: Theo Aerts
language: en
Publisher: University of Papua New Guinea Press
Release Date: 1998
There are various modern methods of an audience-centered reading of the Scriptures. One of them is an anthropology-inspired approach which assumes that people from these parts of the world come to the Bible with quite a different set of presuppositions, grounded in their own age-old traditions. This kind of approach goes purposely away from the well-established kind of reading which is based upon past Jewish history, ancient near-Eastern customs and archaeology, Semitic philology and so on. But without denying the value of these essentially sound segments of learning, is it really necessary that Melanesians should first plunge into Western academia in order to hear God's word? Or is it no longer true that "Greeks" must not first become "Jews" before they can become Christians? The articles gathered in Traditional Religion in Melanesia, and its companion volume Christianity in Melanesia contribute to the goal just described. They make clear that religion as such was not something that was completely new for "the pagans of the past," and that as a rule, too, they were rather selective in accepting the Christian message. This accounts for some misunderstandings, but also for some very positive ways of accepting Christianity.
Melanesian Religion
This is the first general survey to cover the entire field of Melanesian religion. The book starts with traditional religious experience, examines the introduction of Christianity and the missions, and the indigenous response to colonialism of cargo cultism and independent churches. It concludes with the impact of modernization on religious belief and practice. This differs from other books in treating the full range of Melanesian religious experience, rather than concentrating solely on anthropological or Christian aspects. It deals with Melanesian society, and Papua New Guinea in particular--practices, religious activities, and beliefs--from a religious rather than ethnographic viewpoint, but will appeal to readers with a spread of interests and approaches.