xxvi, 206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Contents
In Memory of Colin Badger / Norman Habel -- Introduction / Max Charlesworth -- 1. Some Aspects of Aboriginal Religion / W.E.H. Stanner -- 2. A Profile of Good and Bad in Australian Aboriginal Religion / Ronald M. Berndt -- 3. Aboriginal Women and the Religious Experience / Diane Bell -- 4. On 'Understanding' Australian Aboriginal Religion / Tony Swain -- 5. Aboriginal Spirituality: Land as Holder of Story and Myth in Recent Aboriginal Art / Rosemary Crumlin -- 6. Ned Kelly Died for Our Sins / Deborah Bird Rose -- 7. Riders in the Chariot: Aboriginal Conversion to Christianity in Remote Australia / Peter Willis -- 8. Land Rights - The Religious Factor / Frank Brennan -- 9. Malo's Law in Court: The Religious Background to the Mabo Case / Nonie Sharp
Summary
Interdisciplinary collection spans twenty years of scholarship on Aboriginal religions
Analysis
Aboriginal Australians - Religion
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal land rights
Aboriginal women
Aborigines, Australian - Religion
Australia - Religion
Christianity
Federal issue
Mythology
Religion
Spirituality - Aboriginal Australians
Notes
"The essays which make up this collection were given as lectures in a continuing series on comparative religion sponsored by the Charles Strong Memorial Trust over the last twenty years"--Introd
