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ItemFrom unknown to known: interpreting songlines through gracious engagements from Australia to Indonesia( 2024)In this article, we explore interpretive approaches within Warlpiri (Aboriginal Australian) song and narrative that underpin ngurra-kurlu, a pattern for living purposefully among others. For Warlpiri scholar Author 2, ngurra-kurlu shapes hermeneutic activity, within traditional contexts and across cultural and religious differences. Demonstrating the expansive scope of traditional Warlpiri epistemology, we interpose ngurra-kurlu with the experience of Christians in Indonesia, as they navigate challenges of identity and belonging in this majority Muslim nation. In this, we consider theology as an attentiveness to the gift of variegated traditions. As a movement from unknown to known, theology sustains vibrant community and relational growth.
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ItemSymbolic cohesion and interpretive freedom: Embodying unity in diversity through Warlpiri ngurra-kurlu and Indonesian Pancasila( 2024)Within contemporary Australian and Indonesian society, cultural and religious diversity is often celebrated as symbolic of broader liberal and pluralist identities. However, the interpretive traditions of Indigenous and other minorities are seemingly, rarely considered integral to shaping mainstream discourses on social cohesion. In this article, we explore two contexts of minority engagement with aspirations of unity in diversity, namely Warlpiri Australian formulations of kinship through ngurru-kurlu and Indonesian Christian engagement with Pancasila. Showing the potential for these perspectives to enrich broader social discourse, we suggest that similarities in the symbolic structure of these frameworks can stimulate the exploration of mutual responsibilities across diverse cultural settings. Further, we argue that intimations of gift in traditional Warlpiri ceremony and Christian experience, provide an impetus to this endeavour. Interpretations of ngurra-kurlu and Pancasila as gift are considered integral to the realisation of unity in diversity, embodied within specific contexts of human engagement.
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ItemThe Groove of Raypirri’: Following the Clapping Sticks into a New Generation( 2024)Across Indigenous Australia, traditions of ceremonial performance shape purposeful communities through formal, educative processes in ancestral law. However, more than encoding abstract moral codes in creative forms like song, dance and design, performance generates attentiveness to the living connections of people and place that constitute experience. Creativity within ceremonial traditions is therefore inseparable from responsibilities to generations past, present and future. In this article, we give definition to nuanced intersections of creativity and responsibility by foregrounding distinct yet related voices on Yolŋu, Warlpiri and Wiradjuri ceremonial and artistic practices. We explore the formation of leaders through ceremonial processes, the impact of creative practices on physical and spiritual health, and the creation of harmonious relations through performance. Through these varied scenes, the imperative to create and to do so responsibly, emerges as a challenge to those seeking vibrant community in contemporary Australia.
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