Religion and Retributive Logic : Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf.

A tribute to Garry Winston Trompf (b.1940) with critical discussion of his work in relation to the religions of Oceania, millenarianism, payback.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cusack, Carole M., 1962-
Other Authors:	Hartney, Christopher
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden : BRILL, 2009.
Series:	Numen Book Series, 126.
Subjects:	Religions. religions (belief systems, cultures) Religion Religions Melanesia > Religion. Melanesia
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Table of Contents:

Religion and Retributive Logic; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Tribute; In Memoriam; Part One: Melanesia; Jakarta and Jayapura: the Dialogue of Religions and 'Papua, Land of Peace'; Working Out of Two Mindsets: Critical Methodology and PNG Village Traditional Ways; A Samo Theology of Mediumship: A Case Study of Local Theologising and Global Reflection; Dema as Religious Symbol in Papua New Guinea; Cargo Cults and Cognitive Science: The Dynamics of Creativity and Repetition in the Pomio Kivung; Placing and Dis-Placing the Dead; Part Two: Ancient World.
Towards an Understanding of Mani's Religious Development and the Archaeology of Manichaean IdentitySome Duties and Responsibilities of a Bishop in Late Antique Egypt; Per Saturam or Performance? Seneca's Initium Saeculi Felicissimi: Ritual Hilarity and Millennial Closure in the Apocolocyntosis; Consequences of Bilingualism in Paul's Letters; Part Three: Philosophical and Methodological Considerations; The Religious Thought of Francis Bacon; Rudolf.

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