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Ancestors in post-contact religion : roots, ruptures, and modernity's memory / edited by Steven J. Friesen.

Contributor(s): Friesen, Steven J
Material type: TextTextSeries: Religions of the world (Cambridge, Mass.): Distributor: Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, 2001Description: xxix, 271 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0945454325 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0945454317 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Ancestor worship -- CongressesDDC classification: 291.21/13 LOC classification: BL467 | .A54 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-261) and index.
Contents:
The living living and the living dead: a source of harmony in the Melanesian Worldview / William B. Ferea -- The cult of saints and souls in New Orleans / Ewert Cousins -- The Hawaiian 'Aumakua: ancestors as gods / Rubellite Kawena Johnson -- To praise and to reprimand: ancestors and spirituality in African society and culture / Jacob K. Olupona -- Defeating death and promoting life: ancestors among the Enga, Huli, and Kewa of Papua New Guinea / Mary N. MacDonald -- Into the mist / Ulunui Garmon -- Voyages of Maori ancestors from Hawaiki: two Ngt̂i Porou traditions / Margaret Orbell -- Enlightenment, ancestors, and primordiality: a note on modernity and memory / Charles H. Long -- Encounters with Korean ancestors: rituals, dreams, and stories / Laurel Kendall -- Rhythms from the past beating into the future / Pualani Kanahele -- Aloha 'Aina: love in the land in Hawai'i / David Ka'upu -- Living the dreaming: Aboriginal ancestors past and present / Diane Bell -- Honoring the ancestral bones: the grave protection and repatriation act and the Algonquia feast of the dead / John A. Grim -- Spiritual relations, bodily realities: ancestors in the European Catholic tradition / Jill Raitt -- Disconnection and reconnection / Puanani Burgess.

From a conference at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, January, 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-261) and index.

The living living and the living dead: a source of harmony in the Melanesian Worldview / William B. Ferea -- The cult of saints and souls in New Orleans / Ewert Cousins -- The Hawaiian 'Aumakua: ancestors as gods / Rubellite Kawena Johnson -- To praise and to reprimand: ancestors and spirituality in African society and culture / Jacob K. Olupona -- Defeating death and promoting life: ancestors among the Enga, Huli, and Kewa of Papua New Guinea / Mary N. MacDonald -- Into the mist / Ulunui Garmon -- Voyages of Maori ancestors from Hawaiki: two Ngt̂i Porou traditions / Margaret Orbell -- Enlightenment, ancestors, and primordiality: a note on modernity and memory / Charles H. Long -- Encounters with Korean ancestors: rituals, dreams, and stories / Laurel Kendall -- Rhythms from the past beating into the future / Pualani Kanahele -- Aloha 'Aina: love in the land in Hawai'i / David Ka'upu -- Living the dreaming: Aboriginal ancestors past and present / Diane Bell -- Honoring the ancestral bones: the grave protection and repatriation act and the Algonquia feast of the dead / John A. Grim -- Spiritual relations, bodily realities: ancestors in the European Catholic tradition / Jill Raitt -- Disconnection and reconnection / Puanani Burgess.

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