Introduction
Part I: Phenomenology: Method and Application. 1. Methodological Views on African Religions ; 2. The Contribution of TGH Strehlow to the Contemporary Global Study of Indigenous Religions ; 3. Missionaries, the Phenomenology of Religion and 'Re-presenting' 19th-Century African Religion: A Case Study of Peter McKenzie's Hail Orisha!
Part II: The Phenomenological Subject and Object of Study. 4. Religious Typologies and the Postmodern Critique ; 5. African Identities as the Projection of Western Alterity ; 6. Phenomenological Perspectives on the Social Responsibility of the Scholar of Religion ; 7. The Transmission of an Authoritative Tradition: That Without Which Religion is Not Religion ; 8. Reflecting Critically on Indigenous Religions ; 9. Kinship and Location: In Defence of a Narrow Definition of Indigenous Religions
Part IV: Indigenous Religions in Global Contexts. 10. Secularizing the Land: The Impact of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act on Indigenous Understandings of Land ; 11. The Study of Religion and Non-religion in the Emerging Field of 'Non-religion Studies': Its Significance for Interpreting Australian Aboriginal Religions ; 12. Global Intentions and Local Conflicts: The Rise and Fall of Ambuya Juliana in Zimbabwe
Part V: Affirming Indigenous Agency. 13. The Debate between E.B. Tylor and Andrew Lang over the Theory of Primitive Monotheism: Implications for Contemporary Studies of Indigenous Religions ; 14. T.G.H. Strehlow and the Repatriation of Knowledge
Conclusion: A New Interpretation of the Phenomenology of Religion for Future Academic Studies of Indigenous Religions
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