Religion and retributive logic : essays in honour of professor Garry W. Trompf / / edited by Carole M. Cusack and Christopher Hartney.

• Superior document: Numen book series, studies in the history of religions, v. 126
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Trompf, G. W.; Cusack, Carole M., 1962-; Hartney, Christopher.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of religions ; 126.
• Physical Description: vii, 383 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Melanesia -- Jakarta and Jayapura : the dialogue of religions and "Papua, land of peace" / John D' Arcy May -- Working out of two mindsets : critical methodology and PNG Village traditional ways / Patrick F. Gesch -- A samo theology of mediumship : a case study of local theologising and global reflection / R. Daniel Shaw -- Dema as religious symbol in Papua New Guinea / Ennio Mantovani -- Cargo cults and cognitive science : the dynamics of creativity and repetition in the Pomio Kivung / Andrew Lattas -- Placing and dis-placing the dead / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Ancient world -- Towards an understanding of Mani's religious development and the archaeology of Manichaean identity / Iain Gardner -- Some duties and responsibilities of a bishop(?) in late antique Egypt / Alanna Nobbs -- Per saturam or performance? Seneca's Initium saeculi felicissimi : ritual hilarity and millenial closure in the apocolocyntosis / Christopher Hartney -- Consequences of bilingualism in Paul's Letters / Vrasidas Karalis -- Philosophical and methodological considerations -- The religious thought of Francis Bacon / John Gascoigne -- Rudolf Otto, the East and religious inclusivism / Harry Oldmeadow -- The theme of conversion in Sartre's early ethics / Paul Crittenden -- Approaches to the problem of dualism in Heidegger and Indian yogacara Buddhism / Peter Oldmeadow -- Historiography -- "And end history. And go to the stars" : Terence McKenna and 2012 / Wouter J. Hanegraaf -- Cyborgs and chakras : intersubjectivity in scientific and spiritual somatechnics / Jay Johnston -- Religious studies in New Zealand : a wrong direction? / Paul Morris -- Religion, sexuality and retribution : placing the "other" in Sydney / Carole M. Cusack and Jason H. Prior.