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Book Review

Oceania and the Pacific Islands

Jean E. Rosenfeld. The Island Broken in Two Halves: Land and Renewal Movements Among the Maori of New Zealand. (Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions.) University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1999. Pp. xi, 323. $49.50.

The New Zealand Maori religious movements that arose following European settlement are a fascinating and fertile subject of study, well documented and analyzed by a number of New Zealand scholars from the viewpoint of several disciplines. Jean E. Rosenfeld acknowledges that her book is based on the research of these authors (pp. 15–16). Rosenfeld adds no new information regarding the movements but suggests further interpretations. 1

There were scores of such movements, but Rosenfeld looks at three: the King Movement, Pai Marire, and Ringatu—although she comes to focus on that of Rua Kenana, which she sees as a variant of the last-named. The three are linked through their concern with alienation of land (this is also applicable to other movements in the period from 1860 to 1900). Commendably, Rosenfeld gives full consideration to the movements' primary religious focus. She "proposes" Rua Kenana, one of the many prophetic figures of New Zealand's postcolonial period, as a savior. It must be remembered, however, that Rua was one of many "saviors" to the Maori during this period, being far from the first to make such a claim or be acclaimed as such by his followers. . . .

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