Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- THE PEOPLING OF OCEANIA -- THE INVENTION OF THE RELIGIONS OF OCEANIA -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- Part 1 Australia -- 1 Tradition -- THE DREAMING -- COSMOLOGY -- MAINTAINING THE COSMOS -- THE EMERGENCE OF LIFE FROM LAND -- WOMEN AND LAND -- MAKING MEN -- FROM LIFE TO DEATH -- THE AUSTRALIAN/PACIFIC ISLAND DIVIDE -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- 2 Cults of intrusion -- THE MACASSANS -- THE ALL-MOTHER CULT -- INVASION -- THE ALL-FATHER CULT -- MULUNGA AND THE MILLENNIUM -- CULTS FROM THE PASTORAL WORLD -- THE WAR AND CARGOISM -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- 3 Missions, Christianity and modernity -- MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES IN AUSTRALIA -- MISSION WORLDVIEWS AND ABORIGINAL RESISTANCE -- TWO LAWS OR ONE? -- ADJUSTMENT AND ALLIANCE -- THE MEDIUM AND THE MESSAGE -- EVANGELICAL REVIVALS AND THE MOVE TOWARDS AN INDIGENOUS CHURCH -- REINVENTING THE ETERNAL -- RECLAIMING A PLACE -- MOTHER EARTH -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- Part II Pacific Islands -- 4 Tradition -- COSMOS -- PAYBACK -- POWER -- CREATIVE PARTICIPATION -- BECOMING SPIRIT -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- 5 Cults of intrusion -- CULTS OF VICTORY AND PROSPERITY -- OF KINGS AND CARGO -- INSPIRATIONS OF WORLD WAR -- YOUR OWN CHURCH -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- 6 Missions, Christianity and modernity -- MISSIONS TO SAVAGES -- ISLANDERS AS MISSIONARIES -- INDIGENOUS CHRISTIANITY -- PACIFIC THEOLOGIES -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- Select bibliography -- I AUSTRALIA -- 1 Tradition -- General -- The Dreaming -- Cosmology -- Maintaining the cosmos -- The emergence of life from land -- Women and land -- Making men -- From life to death -- The Australian/Pacific islands divide -- 2 Cults of intrusion -- General -- The Macassans/the All-Mother cult -- Invasion/the All-Father cult -- Mulunga and the millennium.

Cults from the pastoral world -- The war and cargoism -- 3 Missions, Christianity and modernity -- General -- Missions and missionaries in Australia -- Mission world views and Aboriginal resistance -- Two laws or one? -- Adjustment and alliance -- The medium and the message -- Evangelical revivals and the move towards an indigenous church -- Reinventing the eternal/reclaiming a place -- Mother Earth -- II PACIFIC ISLANDS -- 4 Tradition -- General -- Cosmos -- Payback -- Power -- Creative participation -- Becoming spirit -- 5 Cults of intrusion -- General -- Cults of victory and prosperity -- Of kings and cargo -- Inspirations of world war -- Your own church -- 6 Missions, Christianity and modernity -- General -- Missions to savages -- Islanders as missionaries -- Indigenous Christianity -- Pacific theologies -- Index.