Item #354998 Arguments and icons: divergent modes of religiosity / Harvey Whitehouse. Harvey Whitehouse.

Arguments and icons: divergent modes of religiosity / Harvey Whitehouse

2000, Paperback Edition. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #354998
ISBN: 0198234155

Physical description: x, 204 pages; 23 cm. Contents: 1. Indigenous Religions of Papua New Guinea. Initiations as Rites of Terror. Existing Approaches to Rites of Terror. The Cognitive and Political Implications of Rites of Terror -- 2. From Mission to Movement. Modalities of Codification. Early Missionization and the Politics of Memory. Christianity and Indigenous Movements. The Tedium Effect and Localized Splintering. The Political Implications of Indigenous Movements. Codification, Memory, and Group Formation -- 3. Modalities of Codification and Dissemination. The Case Studies. Doctrinal Revelations. Imagistic Revelations. Dissemination in the Doctrinal Mode. Dissemination in the Imagistic Mode -- 4. Order and Disorder in Melanesian Religion. Ritual and Exegesis. Analogic Codes. Subjects: Cognition and culture. Ethnopsychology.
Initiation rites. Manners and customs. Religion and culture.

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