Māori, Christianity & the Spirit World — Public lecture by Bradford Haami
Schedule
Mon Sep 01 2025 at 08:30 am to 10:00 am
UTC+12:00Location
Old Government Buildings, Wellington | Wellington, WG
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In lecture theatre 2 (GBLT2) in the Law School at Victoria University / Te Herenga Waka. Ramsey Library presents a public lecture by Bradford Haami.
What happens when vastly different ways of being meet? Dame Anne Salmond writes of ‘competing cosmologies’ and ‘ontological collisions’ — European missionaries arriving in Aotearoa in the early 19th century brought a Biblical cosmology that began such a collision. In this public lecture Bradford Haami will explore the interactions between Biblical and Māori cultural and spiritual worldviews that continue to evolve up to the present.
* How do Biblical and Māori cultural and spiritual beliefs and thought relate?
* How 19th century rangatira negotiate between traditional beliefs and the Biblical narratives?
* Where do Christian and Māori ways of knowing and seeing clash, compete or enrich each other?
* What does being Māori and Christian look like today?
Bradford Haami (Ngāti Awa) is a Māori historian, researcher and author with research interests in Māori worldviews, spirituality, Christianity and cultural preservation. He is Pou Amorangi (Māori Director) at Laidlaw College in Auckland, New Zealand, where he lectures in biculturalism and sits on the governing board of the college. Haami has written several books on Māori history, culture and spirituality, with recent works including Urban Māori: The Second Great Migration (Oratia Media 2018) and Bringing Culture into Care (Huia 2019). He was the Māori curator/expert on the acclaimed Te Taiao / Nature exhibition at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum.
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