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Religion and retributive logic : essays in honour of professor Garry W. Trompf / edited by Carole M. Cusack and Christopher Hartney.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the history of religions ; 126.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 383 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations, color portraitContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789047441151
  • 904744115X
  • 1282786415
  • 9781282786417
  • 9786612786419
  • 6612786418
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religion and retributive logic.DDC classification:
  • 200.92 22
LOC classification:
  • BL25 .R275 2010eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Melanesia. Jakarta and Jayapura : the dialogue of religions and "Papua, land of peace" / John D'Arcy May. Working out of two mindsets : critical methodology and PNG village traditional ways / Patrick F. Gesch. A Samo theology of mediumship : a case study of local theologising and global reflection / R. Daniel Shaw. Dema as religious symbol in Papua New Guinea / Ennio Mantovani. Cargo cults and cognitive science : the dynamics of creativity and repetition in the Pomio Kivung / Andrew Lattas. Placing and dis-placing the dead / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Ancient world. Towards an understanding of Mani's religious development and the archaeology of Manichaean identity / Iain Gardner. Some duties and responsibilities of a bishop in late antique Egypt / Alanna Nobbs. Per saturam or performance? : Seneca's Initium saeculi felicissimi : ritual hilarity and millenial closure in the Apocolocyntosis / Christopher Hartney. Consequences of bilingualism in Paul's Letters / Vrasidas Karalis -- Philosophical and methodological considerations. The religious thought of Francis Bacon / John Gascoigne. Rudolf Otto, the East and religious inclusivism / Harry Oldmeadow. The theme of conversion in Sartre's early ethics / Paul Crittenden. Approaches to the problem of dualism in Heidegger and Indian yogacara Buddhism / Peter Oldmeadow -- Historiography. "And end history. And go to the stars" : Terence McKenna and 2012 / Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Cyborgs and chakras : intersubjectivity in scientific and spiritual somatechnics / Jay Johnston. Religious studies in New Zealand : a wrong direction? / Paul Morris. Religion, sexuality and retribution : placing the "other" in Sydney / Carole M. Cusack and Jason H. Prior.
Summary: A tribute to Garry Winston Trompf (b.1940) with critical discussion of his work in relation to the religions of Oceania, millenarianism, payback.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)338673

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Melanesia. Jakarta and Jayapura : the dialogue of religions and "Papua, land of peace" / John D'Arcy May. Working out of two mindsets : critical methodology and PNG village traditional ways / Patrick F. Gesch. A Samo theology of mediumship : a case study of local theologising and global reflection / R. Daniel Shaw. Dema as religious symbol in Papua New Guinea / Ennio Mantovani. Cargo cults and cognitive science : the dynamics of creativity and repetition in the Pomio Kivung / Andrew Lattas. Placing and dis-placing the dead / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Ancient world. Towards an understanding of Mani's religious development and the archaeology of Manichaean identity / Iain Gardner. Some duties and responsibilities of a bishop in late antique Egypt / Alanna Nobbs. Per saturam or performance? : Seneca's Initium saeculi felicissimi : ritual hilarity and millenial closure in the Apocolocyntosis / Christopher Hartney. Consequences of bilingualism in Paul's Letters / Vrasidas Karalis -- Philosophical and methodological considerations. The religious thought of Francis Bacon / John Gascoigne. Rudolf Otto, the East and religious inclusivism / Harry Oldmeadow. The theme of conversion in Sartre's early ethics / Paul Crittenden. Approaches to the problem of dualism in Heidegger and Indian yogacara Buddhism / Peter Oldmeadow -- Historiography. "And end history. And go to the stars" : Terence McKenna and 2012 / Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Cyborgs and chakras : intersubjectivity in scientific and spiritual somatechnics / Jay Johnston. Religious studies in New Zealand : a wrong direction? / Paul Morris. Religion, sexuality and retribution : placing the "other" in Sydney / Carole M. Cusack and Jason H. Prior.

Print version record.

A tribute to Garry Winston Trompf (b.1940) with critical discussion of his work in relation to the religions of Oceania, millenarianism, payback.

English.