RELIGION 32: Introduction to Indigenous Pacific Religion

Professor Therese Lautua

2024 Fall Term 

Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

This course offers an introduction to the complex relationship between Christianity and Indigenous spiritualities in the Pacific, including Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. Texts in the course will focus on the significance of relationality through the connection between Moana (ocean), Fanua (land), Tagata (people), and Atua (God), and how colonisation has impacted understandings of these key aspects of life. Students will be invited to consider what decolonisation looks like in their own contexts.

See also:
Harvard University Native American Program with Turtle and Veritas Shield