Whispers and Vanities: Samoan Indigenous Knowledge and Religion

This book is written in English.

This collection of essays and selected poetry responds to an address on Samoan religious culture given by Samoa’s then Head of State, His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta’isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, to the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions. 

The address challenges some fundamental aspects of and assumptions in modern Samoan indigenous religious culture. The essays and poetry form a carefully woven critique, from within and outside Samoa, of aspects of Samoa’s religious and cultural values.

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