CONTENTS

Politics, Land and religion in colonial Natal: The Dilemmas of Missionary Trust

James Kiernan 

7

Enstasis and Ecstasis: A critical Appraisal of Eliade on Yoga and Shamanism

Stuart Ray Sarbacker 

21

The suffering mothers – The Hindu Amman Goddesses as Empowering Role Models for Women

Alleyn Diesel 

39

A Qur'anic perspective and Analysis of the Concept of Scared Space Islam

Aslam Farouk-Alli 

63

SECTION II

Preface: Religion and Rhetoric 

The art of (Hebrew) biblical Argumentation

81

Yehshwa Gitay 

85

Royal Eloquentia in 2 and 3 Henry VI: Dramatic uses of scriptural Authority

Charles Calder 

99

Christus Orator – About the Rhetorical Papacy

Philippe-Joseph Salazar 

111

The Chosen Ones: A mythic analysis of the Theological and Political Self-justification of Christian identity

Michael McFarland and Glenn Gottfried 

125