Genesis Regained
Aboriginal Forms of Renunciation in Judeo-Christian Scriptures and Other Major Traditions
Will be published approx. on 25. February 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXXVIII, 265 pages
978-0-8204-4404-8 (ISBN)
Description
Genesis Regained is the fourth book in a series that began with Life Before Genesis (Peter Lang, 1985), and was followed by Return to Eden (Peter Lang, 1996), and Afterlife Before Genesis (Peter Lang, 1997). In this volume, David Turner takes a key concept critical to the Australian Aboriginal way of life, namely Renunciation, and explores the implications for interpreting other major religious traditions, particularly Judeo-Christianism. Aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam are explored along with the terms of Canadian Confederation and Sunday Morning Hockey. Renunciation is seen as a subordinate subtheme in the major religious traditions and in history.
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Person
The Author: David H. Turner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of Trinity College and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. He has worked for thirty years with the Australian Aborigines and has done comparative research on Canadian history and the Cree, in Bali, in north India, and in Japan. Apart from his three previous books published with Lang, he is author of Tradition and Transformation, Australian Aboriginal Scocial Organization, Shamattawa (with P. Wertman) and Challenging Anthropology (with G. Smith).