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  • Evolution as a Religionby Mary Midgley

    Routledge 2002; US$ 19.95

    This classic book by one of Britain's finest philosophers is a punchy, compelling and lively indictment of the notion of science as a religion. more...

  • The Religions Of Oceaniaby Tony Swain; Garry Trompf

    Taylor & Francis 1995; US$ 41.95

    This constitutes the first up-to-date study of the great and changing variety of traditional religions in the regions of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, collectively known as Oceania. more...

  • Handbook of Polynesian Mythologyby Robert D. Craig

    ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 75.00

    A concise reference source on Polynesia's complex mythology this book contains an annotated bibliography of the major introductory commentaries on Polynesian mythology and culture and an extensive glossary. more...

  • Unintelligent Designby Robyn Williams

    Allen & Unwin 2006; US$ 16.31

    Using all sorts of examples from the natural and scientific world Robyn Williams takes on the stalking monster of fundamentalist religion and creationism in a short, wicked and witty debunk of the nonsense that is intelligent design - a book to infuriate the religious right and amuse the rest of us. more...

  • Vision and Reality in Pacific Religionby Phyllis Herda; David Hilliard; Michael Reilly

    Pandanus Books 2005; US$ 28.00

    Vision and Reality explores the religious history of the Pacific Islands, examining the indigenisation of Christianity and other faiths. more...

  • Australian Soulby Gary Bouma

    Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 33.00

    This fascinating book challenges the idea that religious and spiritual life in Australia is in decline. more...

  • Purpose in the Living World?by Jacob Klapwijk

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 22.00

    Jacob Klapwijk offers the theory of emergent evolution as a way of bridging the gap between creationism and evolutionary science. more...

  • Creation and Evolutionby Lenn E. Goodman

    Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 43.95

    Can religion survive Darwinism? Do scientists entering the lab or heading for the field have to bracket, or reject outright, all religious commitments and convictions? Trenchantly laying out the evidence for natural selection and carefully following and underscoring the themes and theses of Genesis, L. E. Goodman traces the historical and conceptual backgrounds of today's evolution controversies, revealing the deep complementarities of religion and the life sciences. Solidly researched and replete with scientific case studies, vignettes from intellectual history, and thoughtful argument, Creation and Evolution forthrightly exposes the strengths and weaknesses of today's polarized battle camps. Religious and scientific fundamentalisms,... more...

  • Dictionary of Polynesian Mythologyby Robert D. Craig

    ABC-CLIO 1989; US$ 106.95

    Prior to 1500 A.D. the Polynesians were the most widely spread people on earth, having settled an area of the Pacific, the Polynesian Triangle, twice the size of the United States. In this first reference guide to the mythology of these Vikings of the Pacific, Craig reviews Polynesian legends, stories, gods, goddesses, and heroes in hundreds of alphabetical entries that succinctly describe both characters and events. His wide-ranging and thorough introduction sets the subject in its geographic, historical, anthropological, and linguistic contexts, offering an illuminating overview of the origin of the Polynesians as a distinct people and tracing their voyages and settlements from Indonesia to Malaysia, Tonga, Samoa, the Marquesas, the various... more...

  • Us and Themby Abe Ata

    Australian Academic Press 2009; US$ 17.95

    ssential reading for all students — secondary through to tertiary and postgraduate — requiring an introduction to Christian Muslim relations and attitudes in Australia, Us and Them offers 11 essays about interfaith relations drawn from a variety of research projects over past years including results from a national survey on attitudes towards Islam and Muslims among Australian secondary students. more...