Payback

The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions

In this ambitious study, the first monograph on religion and "the logic of retribution," Professor Trompf shows how various aspects of "payback," both negative and positive, provide the best indices to an understanding of Melanesian views of life.

• Format
• 565 pages, Hardcover
• First published
• September 30, 1994
• Publishers
• Cambridge University Press
• Subjects
• Alternative belief systems·Religious groups·Social Science·Religion·World Religions·Religion·Sociology·Comparative Religion·Religion·Comparative Religion·Religion·Sociology of Religion·Retribution·Religious aspects·Retribution
• Language
• English