Religion and Non-Religion among Australian Aboriginal Peoples (Vitality of Indigenous Religions)

Synopsis

Offering a significant contribution to the emerging field of 'Non-Religion Studies', Religion and Non-Religion among Australian Aboriginal Peoples draws on Australian 2011 Census statistics to ask whether the Indigenous Australian population, like the wider Australian society, is becoming increasingly secularised or whether there are other explanations for the surprisingly high percentage of Aboriginal people in Australia who state that they have 'no religion'. Contributors from a range of disciplines consider three central questions: How do Aboriginal Australians understand or interpret what Westerners have called 'religion'? Do Aboriginal Australians distinguish being 'religious' from being 'non-religious'? How have modernity and Christianity affected Indigenous understandings of 'religion'? These questions re-focus Western-dominated concerns with the decline or revival of religion, by incorporating how Indigenous Australians have responded to modernity, how modernity has affected Indigenous peoples' religious behaviours and perceptions, and how variations of response can be found in rural and urban contexts.

Copyright:

2016

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

210 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781317067962

Related ISBNs:

9781315604794, 9781472443854, 9781472443847, 9780367880361, 9780367880361, 9781472443830, 9781472443830, 9781472443830, 9780367880361, 9781315604794

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

02/18/20

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N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

James L. Cox

Edited by:

Adam Possamai