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A review of Max Charlesworth, Francoise Dussart and Howard Morphy (eds), Aboriginal Religions in Australia: An Anthology of Recent Writings (Ashgate, London, 2005).

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  • MARIONMADDOX —BRINGING INDIGENOUS RELIGION INTO FOCUS 219 reflected helpfully on the ways in which an a result of this scholarly displacement, no sooner anthropologist’s own religious persuasions, had the academic world discovered Indigenous regrets or embarrassments become part of the religion than ‘many a writer about the Aborifieldwork experience.2 Nonie Sharp’s study of gines dropped the word “religion” altogether’.5 the processes that eventually resulted in the I would be tempted to think that this aspect

  • There are less admirable reasons why seemed genuinely bemused by the thought of a book-length focus on Indigenous religion according Indigenous religion the same status remains rare

  • Alexander Downer the nineteenth- and twentieth-century ethno- went to the length of pulling a dictionary off graphers who so assiduously documented many the shelf, reading out the definition of religion, areas of Aboriginal culture often neglected to and hazarding, ‘It might be drawing a long bow, pay attention to religion, or did so under dis- to define sacred sites as religious

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MARIONMADDOX —BRINGING INDIGENOUS RELIGION INTO FOCUS 219 reflected helpfully on the ways in which an a result of this scholarly displacement, no sooner anthropologist’s own religious persuasions, had the academic world discovered Indigenous regrets or embarrassments become part of the religion than ‘many a writer about the Aborifieldwork experience.2 Nonie Sharp’s study of gines dropped the word “religion” altogether’.5 the processes that eventually resulted in the I would be tempted to think that this aspect. Consciousness and Aboriginal Aus- piece on Spencer and Gillen is excerpted from tralians7 seeks an understanding of spiritual a co-authored publication of 1985.

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