Secularism exhausted? : non-indigenous postcolonial discourses and the question of aboriginal religion

Eurocentric intellectual frameworks misrepresent indigenous Australian cultural law. Non-indigenous representations of "aboriginal religion" are often incomplete due to difficulties in the translation of "law", "society", and "spirit" between cultures. Postcolonial and cultural theory both hinders and assists in addressing problematic representations of Aboriginal Australian sacred culture in modern Australian society.

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"Eurocentric intellectual frameworks misrepresent indigenous Australian cultural law. Non-indigenous representations of "aboriginal religion" are often incomplete due to difficulties in the translation of "law", "society", and "spirit" between cultures. Postcolonial and cultural theory both hinders and assists in addressing problematic representations of Aboriginal Australian sacred culture in modern Australian society."@en
""Eurocentric intellectual frameworks tend to misrepresent Indigenous Australian cultural Law. I argue in this thesis that Non-Indigenous Australian representations of 'Aboriginal religion' are often incomplete due to difficulties in the translation of 'Law', 'Society', and 'Spirit' and 'Truth' between cultures. I analyse how postcolonial literary and cultural theory both hinders and assists in addressing the problem of representations of Aboriginal Australian sacred culture in modem Australian society. This thesis examines the work of selected European cultural theorists by studying the work of Foucault, Geertz, Durkheim, Freud, and Thomas as a preliminary gambit to create the groundwork for an analysis of new discourses on Indigenous Australian culture. Recent writers who address 'Aboriginal religion' using post-colonial critical theories, such as Tacey, Muecke, Gelder and Jacobs, contribute to ways forward in reconciliation issues in light of cultural theory perfonnedlprosecuted by European writers. In problematising some literary representations of Indigenous Australian culture I found it necessary to undertake an interdisciplinary investigative procedure. I believe that an expanded disciplinary study of Aboriginal religion is essential if postcolonial discourses of the sacred are to have a productive future. Comparative literary criticism and cultural studies contribute alongside philosophy, psychology, and anthropology to a wider understanding of Indigenous Australian Spiritual-Life experiences or cultural Law(s)" [Taken from introduction]"

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