256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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More than a quarter of the world's religions are to be found in the regions of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, together called Oceania. The Religions of Oceania is the first book to bring together up-to-date information on the great and changing variety of traditional religions in the Pacific zone. The book also deals with indigenous Christianity and its wide influence across the... Read more
Introduction Part I Australia (Tony Swain) 1 Tradition 2 Cults of intrusion 3 Missions, Christianity and modernity Part II Pacific Islands (Garry Trompf) 4 Tradition 5 Cults of intrusion 6 Missions, Christianity and modernity
Biography
Tony Swain is Lecturer at the School of Studies in Religion, and Garry Trompf is Associate Professor in the School of Studies in Religion and Fellow of the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific, both at the University of Sydney.
