Arguments and Icons : Divergent Modes of Religiosity: Divergent Modes of ReligiosityOUP Oxford, 1 juin 2000 - 216 pages Why do initiations in Papua New Guinea often subject novices to violence and terror? Why do some cargo cults lead to regional unity and others to regional divisions? How have features of cognitive processing in missionary Christianity contributed to new forms of identity among Melanesians? The theory of `modes of religiosity' which Whitehouse here develops answers these and a range of other questions about Melanesia with reference to a set of interconnections between styles of religious transmission, systems of memory, and patterns of political association. Although building his argument on detailed Melanesian ethnography, Whitehouse goes on to suggest that the theory of modes of religiosity may have wider applicability. Thus, in the final two chapters of this book, he explores such diverse topics as the spread of Reformed Christianity in sixteenth-century Europe, the interpretation of Upper Palaeolithic cave art, the genesis of tribal warfare, and the impact of literacy on social transmission and organization. |
Table des matières
Episodic and Semantic Memory | 5 |
Summary of the Book | 12 |
From Mission to Movement | 34 |
Order and Disorder in Melanesian Religion | 81 |
Cognition Emotion and Politics | 99 |
Interacting Modes of Religiosity | 125 |
Entangled Histories | 147 |
Modes of Religiosity and Political Evolution | 160 |
References | 189 |
18 | 193 |
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activities Anthropological anthropologists argued argument associated Baktaman initiation Barth Brunton cargo cults central ceremonial Chapter church codification coherence cohesion communitas complex conceptual context contrast cosmology crucial cultural described doctrinal and imagistic doctrinal mode doctrinal practices elaboration embahi emotional encoded episodic memories established evoked exegesis exegetical flashbulb memory forms Goody guria highly human ideas ideology images imagistic mode imagistic practices indigenous initiation rites innovation instance intellectual intense jipari Juillerat Koriam leaders literacy logical Melanesian Melanesian religions mission missionary Christianity mode of religiosity models Moreover Nevertheless Noise non-literate novices oral orators Orokaiva orthodoxy Paliau Movement Papua New Guinea patterns political Pomio Kivung Reformation religious experience religious traditions repetitive representations revelations revelatory ritual ritual performances routinized schemas Schwartz Second Cult semantic memory Shooting the Sun social societies splinter group spread symbolism Taro Cult tend theory tion transmission transmitted Turner universalistic Upper Palaeolithic village Wanek warfare Whitehouse 1995 Yafar yangis