Religion and Retributive Logic -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Tribute -- In Memoriam -- Part One: Melanesia -- Jakarta and Jayapura: the Dialogue of Religions and 'Papua, Land of Peace' -- Working Out of Two Mindsets: Critical Methodology and PNG Village Traditional Ways -- A Samo Theology of Mediumship: A Case Study of Local Theologising and Global Reflection -- Dema as Religious Symbol in Papua New Guinea -- Cargo Cults and Cognitive Science: The Dynamics of Creativity and Repetition in the Pomio Kivung -- Placing and Dis-Placing the Dead -- Part Two: Ancient World -- Towards an Understanding of Mani's Religious Development and the Archaeology of Manichaean Identity -- Some Duties and Responsibilities of a Bishop(?) in Late Antique Egypt -- Per Saturam or Performance? Seneca's Initium Saeculi Felicissimi: Ritual Hilarity and Millennial Closure in the Apocolocyntosis -- Consequences of Bilingualism in Paul's Letters -- Part Three: Philosophical and Methodological Considerations -- The Religious Thought of Francis Bacon -- Rudolf Otto, the East and Religious Inclusivism -- The Theme of Conversion in Sartre's Early Ethics -- Approaches to the Problem of Dualism in Heidegger and Indian Yogacara Buddhism -- Part Four: Historiography -- 'And End History. And Go to the Stars': Terence McKenna and 2012 -- Cyborgs and Chakras: Intersubjectivity in Scientific and Spiritual Somatechnics -- Religious Studies in New Zealand: A Wrong Direction? -- Religion, Sexuality and Retribution: Placing the 'Other' in Sydney -- Contributors -- Index.