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The Monologic Imagination by Matt Tomlinson 9780190652814
RRP: $52.23Booksplease Price: $47.11The pioneering and hugely influential work of Mikhail Bakhtin has led scholars in recent decades to see all discourse and social life as inherently "dialogical." No speaker speaks alone,... -
Christian Politics in Oceania by Matt Tomlinson 9780857457462
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $109.86The phrase "Christian politics" points in two directions: political relations between denominations in one direction, and ways that Christian churches contribute to debates about how... -
Ritual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance by Matt Tomlinson 9780199341146
Booksplease Price: $49.34A classic question in studies of ritual is how ritual performances achieve-or fail to achieve-their effects. In this pathbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson argues that participants condition their own... -
In God's Image: The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity by Matt Tomlinson 9780520257788
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.91Today, most indigenous Fijians are Christians, and the Methodist Church is the foundation of their social and political lives. Yet, as this thought-provoking study of life on rural Kadavu Island... -
Making Places Sacred: New Articulations of Place and Power by Matt Tomlinson 9781009616317
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $21.31Although claims to sacredness are often linked to the power of a distant past, the work of making places sacred is creative, novel, renewable, and reversible. This Element highlights how sacred space... -
Making Places Sacred: New Articulations of Place and Power by Matt Tomlinson 9781009616324
Booksplease Price: $72.41Although claims to sacredness are often linked to the power of a distant past, the work of making places sacred is creative, novel, renewable, and reversible. This Element highlights how sacred space... -
God Is Samoan: Dialogues Between Culture and Theology in the Pacific by Matt Tomlinson 9780824888312
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In this pathbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson engages in an anthropological conversation with the... -
New Mana: Transformations of a Classic Concept in Pacific Languages and Cultures by Matt Tomlinson 9781760460075
RRP: $33.93Booksplease Price: $32.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760460075Author Matt TomlinsonFormat PaperbackImprint ANU PressPublisher ANU Press -
Let the Dead Speak: Spiritualism in Australia Andrew Singleton 9781526181022
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01This book explores the historical and social dynamics of Spiritualism - a religious movement associated in the popular imagination with nineteenth-century parlour seances and ghost photography. It... -
Religion and Science Fiction by Timothy Jenkins 9781803741703
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $24.81"Flying saucers come from outer space - except, as Timothy Jenkins observes in this persuasive and enjoyable volume, they also come from the pages of nineteenth-century occult texts. Jenkins ably... -
Social Formations of Wonder: Anthropology and Awe by Jaap Timmer
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49What can wonder engender in terms of religious, political, and broader social practice? Thinkers from Plato to Martin Heidegger and Cornelius Castoriadis; surrealists such as Andre Breton and Pierre... -
Performing Masculinity: Body, Self and Identity in Modern Fiji by Geir Presterudstuen
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $49.01Geir Henning Presterudstuen provides an ethnographic account of howmen in the multicultural urban centres of Fiji perceive, construct andperform masculinities in the context of rapid social change... -
The Limits of Meaning: Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity by Matthew Engelke 9781845455071
RRP: $30.90Booksplease Price: $27.30"Christian theology has given to the human sciences at large hermeneutics as an interpretive science of meaning. This remarkable collection of essays by anthropologists turns a keen hermeneutic... -
A Thousand Eruptions: Charismatic Revival and the Quest for Metaphysical Security in Melanesia 1970-1980 Dr Fraser Macdonald 9781350497528
Booksplease Price: $39.40The charismatic revival movements of the 1970s in Melanesia were the most significant religious development in the region's history, but until now there has been no full-scale look at the regional... -
Flows of Faith: Religious Reach and Community in Asia and the Pacific by Lenore Manderson 9789400729315
Booksplease Price: $116.82Unique local transformations of the practice of established religions in Asia and the Pacific are juxtaposed with the emergence of new religious movements whose incidence is growing across the region... -
Flows of Faith: Religious Reach and Community in Asia and the Pacific by Lenore Manderson 9789400794290
Booksplease Price: $116.82Unique local transformations of the practice of established religions in Asia and the Pacific are juxtaposed with the emergence of new religious movements whose incidence is growing across the region... -
Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body by Tony Ballantyne
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $98.22The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Maori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in missionary... -
Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body by Tony Ballantyne 9780822358268
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $33.95The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Maori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in missionary... -
The Anthropology of Christianity by Fenella Cannell 9780822336082
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $35.35This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all...