Changing Concepts of Embodiment and Illness among the Western Arrernte at Hermannsburg Mission
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10197899 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacqueline Van Gent (0000-0002-6454-9292, Edith Cowan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 329-347 |
| Publication date | 2003-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4227 • E-ISSN: 1467-9809 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9809.2003.00199.x |
| OpenAlex | W2117926502 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This paper argues that the interaction between Lutheran missionaries and Arrernte people at Hermannsburg mission was shaped by different body practices and discourses. Notions of sickness, causation and healing were central to the ideas of the body. Both missionaries and Arrernte paid attention to these somatic states in their social interactions. Lutherans attempted to reinforce an individualistic notion of the body, while Arrernte people continued to believe in the fundamental interconnectedness of the person with ancestors and kin. In the new social environment of the missions, the indigenous socio‐somatic view of a person remained flexible enough to accommodate aspects of Christian ontology and ritual
Body of Christ · Causation · Clan · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Indigenous · Individualism · Ontology · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Christian Theology and Mission · Ecology · Law · Moravian Church and William Blake · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2020 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |