Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth. The region is famous for its unusual new religious movements that have adapted traditional beliefs to modernity in surprising ways. As the first bibliographical survey to comprehensively cover the entire region, "Religions of Melanesia" is an invaluable research aid for anyone interested in this growing field. Trompf's work is a complete listing of scholarly publications and provides readable and concise descriptions that will clearly guide the researcher toward the...
Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth. The region is famous ...
In this ambitious study, the first monograph on religion and "the logic of retribution," Professor Trompf shows how various aspects of "payback," both negative and positive, provide the best indices to an understanding of Melanesian views of life. The book explores the reasons why people "pay back" and opens up a whole new dimension in the cross-cultural study of human consciousness. The author conducts his readers through the most complex anthropological pageant on earth, illustrating his arguments from western New Guinea to Fiji.
In this ambitious study, the first monograph on religion and "the logic of retribution," Professor Trompf shows how various aspects of "payback," both...
Delving into the 'tool-kit' of the Christian historians, this book identifies and explores the logic of retribution that pervades their records. It argues that the writings of the Early Christian historians reflects this logic and compares this development with pagan history-writing.
Delving into the 'tool-kit' of the Christian historians, this book identifies and explores the logic of retribution that pervades their records. It ar...
