Rejecting the Rainbow Serpent: An Aboriginal Artist's Choice of the Christian God as Creator

Rejecting the Rainbow Serpent: An Aboriginal Artist's Choice of the Christian God as Creator

Anderson illustrates the way one Aboriginal artist challenged what he perceived as an essential concept of Aboriginality, by rejecting rainbow serpent iconography. The motivations for this rejection were the artist's strong belief in the Christian God as creator and his reaction against New Age...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Australian journal of anthropology 2001-12, Vol.12 (3), p.291-301
1. Verfasser: Anderson, Sallie
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Aborigines
Analysis
Anthropology
Australia
Christianity
Christianity and other religions
Creation myths
Identity
Indigenous peoples
Interfaith relations
Native peoples
Relations
Religions
Religious art
Religious icons
Spirituality
Visual artists
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Zusammenfassung:Anderson illustrates the way one Aboriginal artist challenged what he perceived as an essential concept of Aboriginality, by rejecting rainbow serpent iconography. The motivations for this rejection were the artist's strong belief in the Christian God as creator and his reaction against New Age representations of Aboriginality in which the rainbow serpent signifies Aboriginal spirituality and is posited as the single creator for all of Aboriginal Australia.
ISSN:1035-8811
1757-6547
DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.2001.tb00078.x