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- catalog abstract ""Why are some religious rituals intensely stimulating and memorable occasions, while others are habituated and humdrum routines? Why do some religious practices lead to sectarianism and local divisions, while others serve to unify regional and even world-wide followings? The theory of 'modes of religiosity' which Harvey Whitehouse develops in this book answers these and a range of other questions with reference to a set of interconnections between styles of religious transmission, systems of memory, and patterns of political association."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11623644.
- catalog coverage "Melanesia Religious life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "Melanesia Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Why are some religious rituals intensely stimulating and memorable occasions, while others are habituated and humdrum routines? Why do some religious practices lead to sectarianism and local divisions, while others serve to unify regional and even world-wide followings? The theory of 'modes of religiosity' which Harvey Whitehouse develops in this book answers these and a range of other questions with reference to a set of interconnections between styles of religious transmission, systems of memory, and patterns of political association."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 204 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0198234147".
- catalog identifier "0198234155 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Melanesia Religious life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Melanesia Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Melanesia.".
- catalog subject "306/.0995 21".
- catalog subject "Cargo cults Melanesia.".
- catalog subject "Cognition and culture Melanesia.".
- catalog subject "Ethnopsychology Melanesia.".
- catalog subject "GN668 .W55 2000".
- catalog subject "Initiation rites Melanesia.".
- catalog subject "Religion and culture Melanesia.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Arguments and icons : divergent modes of religiosity / Harvey Whitehouse.".
- catalog type "text".