Religion and retributive logic
Subtitle: essays in honour of professor Garry W. Trompf
By: edited by Carole M. Cusack and Christopher Hartney.
Contributors: Trompf, G. W.; Cusack, Carole M., 1962-; Hartney, Christopher.
Series: Numen book series, studies in the history of religions -- v. 126; Studies in the history of religions -- 126.
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9789004178809
Subjects: Religions; Melanesia -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Melanesia; title: Jakarta and Jayapura : the dialogue of religions and "Papua, land of peace" / John D' Arcy May; title: Working out of two mindsets : critical methodology and PNG Village traditional ways / Patrick F. Gesch; title: A samo theology of mediumship : a case study of local theologising and global reflection / R. Daniel Shaw; title: Dema as religious symbol in Papua New Guinea / Ennio Mantovani; title: Cargo cults and cognitive science : the dynamics of creativity and repetition in the Pomio Kivung / Andrew Lattas; title: Placing and dis-placing the dead / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart; title: Ancient world; title: Towards an understanding of Mani's religious development and the archaeology of Manichaean identity / Iain Gardner; title: Some duties and responsibilities of a bishop(?) in late antique Egypt / Alanna Nobbs; title: Per saturam or performance? Seneca's Initium saeculi felicissimi : ritual hilarity and millenial closure in the apocolocyntosis / Christopher Hartney; title: Consequences of bilingualism in Paul's Letters / Vrasidas Karalis; title: Philosophical and methodological considerations; title: The religious thought of Francis Bacon / John Gascoigne; title: Rudolf Otto, the East and religious inclusivism / Harry Oldmeadow; title: The theme of conversion in Sartre's early ethics / Paul Crittenden; title: Approaches to the problem of dualism in Heidegger and Indian yogacara Buddhism / Peter Oldmeadow; title: Historiography; title: "And end history. And go to the stars" : Terence McKenna and 2012 / Wouter J. Hanegraaf; title: Cyborgs and chakras : intersubjectivity in scientific and spiritual somatechnics / Jay Johnston; title: Religious studies in New Zealand : a wrong direction? / Paul Morris; title: Religion, sexuality and retribution : placing the "other" in Sydney / Carole M. Cusack and Jason H. Prior.