Aboriginal Religions in Australia : An Anthology of Recent Writings

By: Francoise Dussart, Max Charlesworth (Editor), Howard Morphy

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Hardcover | 1 January 2005

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Over the last 25 years there has been an explosion of interest in the Aboriginal religions of Australia and this anthology provides a variety of recent writings, by a wide range of scholars. Australian Aboriginal Religions are probably the oldest extant religious systems. Over some 50,000 years they have coped with change and re-invented themselves in an astonishingly creative way. The Dreaming, the mythical time when the Ancestor Spirits shaped the territories of the Aborigines and laid down a moral and ritual Law for their occupants, is the fundamental religious reality. It is the basis of the Aborigines' view of their land or country, kinship relationships, ritual and art. However, the Dreaming is not a static principle since it is interpreted in different ways, as in the extraordinary movement in contemporary indigenous painting, and in attempts at an accommodation with Christianity. The contributions of anthropologists, cultural historians, philosophers of religion and others are included in this anthology which not only guides readers through the literature but also ensures this still largely inaccessible material is available to a wider range of readers and non-specialist students and academics.

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Introduction
Revaluations
Introduction
Baldwin Spencer and F.J. Gillen
High gods
Stanner on Aboriginal religion
Religious Business
Introduction
'Women's business', what is it?
Big businesswomen
Sacred Places
Introduction
Do places appear?
Sacred geography
Myth and history
Art and Religion
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Yolngu art and the creativity of the inside
Linda Syddick on longing
The enigma of Emily Kngwarray
Different Dreamings
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Aboriginal religion today
Life and land in Aboriginal Australia
Creation in the Kimberley
Religions and Law
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Land rights: the religious factor
The Hindmarsh Bridge affair and secret knowledge
Religious Exchanges
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Faith and fear in Aboriginal Christianity
Islam and Australian Aborigines
Index
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