The Australian Journal Of Anthropology: Beyond Syncretism: Indigenous Expressions Of World Religions
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This academic journal issue presents a focused scholarly examination of how indigenous communities across Australia and the broader Pacific region engage with, adapt, and transform world religions such as Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism into distinctly local expressions of faith and identity. Rather than treating religious adoption as simple assimilation, the contributors argue that indigenous peoples actively reshape global religious traditions through the lens of their own cultural frameworks, cosmologies, and social structures — a process that moves decisively beyond conventional notions of syncretism. Each article illustrates the dynamic tension between universal religious doctrine and local indigenous meaning-making, drawing on rich ethnographic fieldwork and rigorous theoretical analysis. The tone is rigorously academic yet deeply humanistic, centering indigenous voices and lived experience as primary sources of theological and anthropological insight. Edited by John Gordon and Fiona Magowan, this volume stands as an essential contribution to the anthropology of religion, postcolonial studies, and the growing field of indigenous religious studies.
Author: John Gordon And Fiona Magowan
Format: Paperback
Published: 2001, Australian Anthropological Society Inc., Sydney
Genre: Anthropology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
This academic journal issue presents a focused scholarly examination of how indigenous communities across Australia and the broader Pacific region engage with, adapt, and transform world religions such as Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism into distinctly local expressions of faith and identity. Rather than treating religious adoption as simple assimilation, the contributors argue that indigenous peoples actively reshape global religious traditions through the lens of their own cultural frameworks, cosmologies, and social structures — a process that moves decisively beyond conventional notions of syncretism. Each article illustrates the dynamic tension between universal religious doctrine and local indigenous meaning-making, drawing on rich ethnographic fieldwork and rigorous theoretical analysis. The tone is rigorously academic yet deeply humanistic, centering indigenous voices and lived experience as primary sources of theological and anthropological insight. Edited by John Gordon and Fiona Magowan, this volume stands as an essential contribution to the anthropology of religion, postcolonial studies, and the growing field of indigenous religious studies.