The Fixed and the Fickle: Religion and Identity in New Zealand

by Hans Mol

This volume describes the effect of religion on the identity of the native Maoris and Pakehas (white settlers in New Zealand. The description is woven around the idea that the fixed (identity) is constantly "unglued" by the fickle (change). The Maori charismatic movements are seen as attempts to absorb the devastating effects of Pakeha incursion into a viable system of meaning. Yet the white white settlers, too, had to tame the discontinuities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554585554
• ISBN13: 9781554585557
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 120 Pages