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Robert Bos Robert Bos i(A32398 works by) (a.k.a. Rob Bos)
Gender: Male
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1 [Review] A Straight-Out Man : F. W. Albrecht and Central Australian Aborigines Robert Bos , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Studio : A Journal of Christians Writing , Summer (1993-1994) no. 53 1993; (p. 37)
— Review of A Straight-Out Man : F. W. Albrecht and Central Australian Aborigines Barbara Henson , 1992 single work biography
1 y separately published work icon Jesus and the Dreaming : Religion and Social Change in Arnhem Land Robert Bos , St Lucia : 1988 14217255 1988 single work thesis

'Examines a Christian religious movement which began among the Yolngu people of Elcho Island, Arnhem Land, in 1979: the nature of the movement; its leaders; influence of the missions; the prevailing social conditions; the relationship between the movement and traditional belief systems. Bos concludes that the movement provided an amended ideological foundation for new social conditions resulting from mission and wider European contact. More broadly, Aboriginal Law, embodied in the Dreaming, facilitates social change by maintaining open-ended symbols subject to reinterpretation, thus allowing social cohesion during periods of change.' (abstract thesis)
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