Vernacular Christianity Among the Mulia Dani: An Ethnography of Religious Belief Among the Western Dani of Irian Jaya, Indonesia.

by Douglas James Hayward

This book is about religious change. More particularly it is about the changes brought about when Christianity was introduced to a remote tribal group in the highlands of what is now Irian Jaya, Indonesia. These people who are members of a tribal group that has become known as the Western Dani, entered into a process, through their contact with missionaries, that has been the shared experience of hundreds of tribal groups for the past two thousand...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761807608
• ISBN13: 9780761807605
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 340 Pages