The Conversion of the Maori
The Conversion of the Maori

Author: Timothy Yates

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2013-08-31

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0802869459

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The Conversion of the Maori is the latest volume in the Studies in the History of Christian Missions series, which explores the significant, yet often contested, impact of Christian missions around the world. Timothy Yates introduces the history of missions among the Maori people of New Zealand in the mid-1800s. On the basis of painstaking archival research, Yates charts the change in society and religion over the course of nearly thirty years in detail, describing the historical development of the conversion process. The Conversion of the Maori is ecumenical and historically informed to give a balanced presentation of the conversion of a whole people.

The Trouble with Tradition
The Trouble with Tradition

Author: Simon Young

Publisher: Federation Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 9781862876477

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This book is a broad and detailed examination of the native title jurisprudence in the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, with a specific focus on the handling of Indigenous community changes in each country's case law.

Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change
Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change

Author: Peggy Brock

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2005-05-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9047405552

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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. While change is often triggered by the introduction of new understandings, it can only become entrenched within a community when it takes on meaning for individuals, and becomes embedded within the social and cultural life of the community.