Indigenous peoples and religious change
By: edited by Peggy Brock.
Contributors: Brock, Peggy, 1948-
Series: Studies in Christian mission -- v. 31
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Missions -- History.; Indigenous peoples -- Religion.; Christianity and culture -- History.
Description: "This book explores a range of societies in and around the Pacific and southern Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that encountered religions introduced from elsewhere, or fashioned their own responses to already established religious traditions. These changes observed through the responses of the receiving societies indicate that religious change is a creative dynamic, rather than a passive acceptance of new ideas, beliefs and practices."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-251) and index.