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Conservative Islam
Conservative Islam: A Cultural Anthropology by Erich Kolig analyzes the salient characteristics of Islam and contemporary Muslim society from the perspective of traditional cultural anthropology. Gender issues, the headscarf and veiling, alcohol and pork prohibition, the taboo on satirizing religious contents, violence and jihad, attitudes toward rationalism and modernity, and other important issues that emanate from Islamic doctrine are discursively highlighted as to their origins, symbolic meanings, and importance in the modern world. By highlighting socio-cultural configurations, the universals they represent, the circumstances of their creation, and their semiotic meaning, Kolig helps the reader gain understanding of Islam in the modern world.
New Zealand's Muslims and Multiculturalism
Issues of integration, multiculturalism and policies of ethnic and religious minority rights have gained greatly in significance in recent years, especially in relation to Muslims. This book deals with the Muslim minority in New Zealand, with special emphasis on policy aspects relevant to the integration of Muslims in the host society. The book also discusses many other issues, among which are Muslim political representation, inner coherence of the Muslim community, effects of public policies, differentiated citizenship, gender issues and gender equality, and points of friction with the encapsulating host society, including the effects of sharia application, radicalism and the fallout of the Danish cartoon affair.
Understanding the Past, Navigating the Future
There is more to globalisation than just world-wide economic interconnectedness. Equally important is that cultures grow together, engage in rapprochements, harmonise global pluralism, find common values in human existence, agree on international laws and share fundamental ethics. It is not important whether women wear a hijab, or indigenous art is copyrighted; but it is important whether the death penalty is invoked for blasphemy, apostasy and homosexuality, or whether an inconvenient journalist exercising free speech can be murdered with impunity by the justice system of a potentate. Many problems span the whole world and cannot be solved by nationalist isolation. Human rights conventions ...
Dreamtime Politics
The sway that religious issues have or had over politics in Aboriginal society.
The Future of Christianity
This book, written by a group of New Zealand scholars, theologians, historians and lawyers, examines the question of New Zealand's Western culture and Christianity. The contributors explore recent debates over secularisation, exploring its merits and explanatory power, while also showing its limitations.
The Flood Myth
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Going It Alone
This collection of essays in honour of leading anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt has as its central theme Aboriginal autonomy, and includes biographical information about the Berndts and a select bibliography of their work.
Narrating Indigenous Modernities
Preliminary Material -- “Things are not exactly black or white in Aotearoa”: The Many Facets of Kiwi Identity -- Fragmentation Reconsidered: Transcultural Identities in the Making -- Narratives of (Be)Longing: Māori Literary Voices Advancing -- Narratives of (Un)Belonging: Unmasking Cleavage, Cleaving to Identities -- Transcultural Readings: Recombining Repertoires -- Navigating Transcultural Currents: Stories of Indigenous Modernities -- Works Cited -- Index.
Asian Literary Voices
Philip F. Williams has published nine books in East Asian studies, including The Great Wall of Confinement (UCal, 2004), and has been Professor of Chinese at Massey University and Arizona State University. --
