Whispers and Vanities
Subtitle: Samoan Indigenous Knowledge and Religion
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781775501602
Subjects: Pacific studies; Religion and theology
Description: "This collection of essays and selected poetry responds to an address on Samoan religious culture given by Samoa's Head of State, His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, to the 2009 Parliament of the World's Religions. The address challenges some fundamental aspects of modern Samoan indigenous religious culture. The essays and poetry form a carefully woven critique, from within and outside Samoa, of aspects of indigenous Pacific culture."--Page 4 of cover.