Restoring the Chain of Memory

James L. Cox is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies, University of Edinburgh,and Adjunct Professor in the Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University. He has particular interests in the study of Indigenous Religions, with emphases on Africa, the Arctic and Australia and in methodologies in the academic study of religions.

• Preface Chapter One: The Context: Central Australia, T.G.H. Strehlow and His Detractors Chapter Two: Restoring the Chain of Memory: A Theory of Religion and Indigenous ReligionsChapter Three: Eternity: Arrernte Myths of CreationChapter Four: Personal Monototemism in a Polytotemic CommunityChapter Five: Songs of Central AustraliaChapter Six: ‘One Hour Before Sunset’: The Loss of Indigenous Religious KnowledgeChapter Seven: Strehlow the ‘Insider’ as a Phenomenologist of ReligionChapter Eight: T.G.H. Strehlow and the Repatriation of Knowledge in Central AustraliaChapter Nine: Knowledge, Tradition and Authority