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All around Australia and overseas: Christianity and indigenous identities in Central Australia 1988.
- Source :
- Australian Journal of Anthropology; Apr2010, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p110-128, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- This paper discusses the themes and practices of Christian performance at the Western Desert Aboriginal community of Warlungurru in 1988,<superscript>1</superscript> six years after the Pintupi return to their homelands (see ; ; ) and the enthusiastic Christian revival-nightly Gospel singing, a ban on gambling-experienced in the first years of their return. My concern is with how a distinctively Lutheran focus in Pintupi Christianity (in opposition to competing Pentecostal orientations in Central Australia at that time) was grasped by some Pintupi as a structure organising relations between Indigenous people and others in the world, and how specialised knowledge constituted positions of prestige and authority. Thus, I explore certain convergences between prior Indigenous formulations of personhood and relatedness and the way in which Lutheran Christianity was articulated during this period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10358811
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Australian Journal of Anthropology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 63067982
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1757-6547.2010.00070.x