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Māori Religion — The Way of the Living WorldAn ethnographic introduction to the religion of the Māori people of Aotearoa New Zealand — the cosmology of Ranginui and Papatūānuku, the principles of whakapapa, tapu, mana, and hau, the tohunga as keeper of sacred knowledge, and the extraordinary prophetic movements that emerged in the nineteenth century as Māori encountered colonization and remade their spiritual life in response.Samoan Religion — The Way of the VāA profile of the traditional religion and cultural system of the Samoan people — the cosmogony of Tagaloa, the sacred relational space of the vā, the matai chiefly system and the aiga extended family, the tatau (sacred tattoo), the fono village council and ava ceremony, the war goddess Nafanua, the synthesis with Christianity, the ifoga ritual apology, customary land tenure, and the survival of Fa'a Samoa across a diaspora larger than the homeland.