Religious Change and Indigenous Peoples
eBook - ePub

Religious Change and Indigenous Peoples

The Making of Religious Identities

  1. 162 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Religious Change and Indigenous Peoples

The Making of Religious Identities

About this book

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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Information

Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781409448679
eBook ISBN
9781317067023
Edition
1
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table Of Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Aboriginal Spirituality versus Modernity
  11. 2 Post–Traditional Spirituality and Post-Christianity in Australia
  12. 3 Islam in Aboriginal Australia
  13. 4 Conversion among Indigenous Peoples in Australia and New Zealand
  14. 5 The Significance of Religious Identities among Aboriginal Australian Inmates
  15. 6 The Growth of the Indigenous Religious ā€˜Nones’
  16. 7 Conversion, Reversion and De-Conversion
  17. 8 Conclusion: Continuity through Change
  18. Appendix
  19. References
  20. Index