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Religious Change and Indigenous Peoples
The Making of Religious Identities
Exploring religious and spiritual changes among Indigenous populations
This book focuses on important changes in religious affiliation in census data over the last 15 years, exploring religious and spiritual changes among Indigenous populations in Australia and New Zealand. Drawing on both local social and political debates, it contextualises the discussion within wider global debates about changing religious identities, especially the growth of Islam.
The authors present a critical analysis of the persistent images and discourses on Aboriginal religions and spirituality. This book takes a comparative approach to other Indigenous and minority groups to explore contemporary changes in religious affiliation, which have raised questions about resistance to modernity, challenges to the nation state, and/or rejection of Christianity or Islam.
Helena Onnudottir, Adam Posssamai, and Bryan Turner offer a critical analysis of ongoing public, political, and sociological debates about religious conversion (especially to Islam) and changing religious affiliations, including an increase in the number of people who claim 'no religion'.
This book also makes a major contribution to the growing debate about conversion to Islam among Australian Aborigines, Maoris, and Pacific peoples.
