The Māori and the Bible: Aotearoa New Zealand’s Indigenous Christian Theology

Record summary

Contemporary Māori theological writing examines how Christian concepts were translated through whakapapa, whenua, wairua, mauri, and ancestral authority. This is relevant to esoteric comparison because it shows transformation claims operating through religious translation rather than through occult ritual alone. The literature also records tensions between missionary categories and Māori frameworks for spiritual agency. The exact body of work is distributed across books, theses, and journals, so researchers should identify the particular author and edition before citing any claim about continuity with pre-Christian Māori religion.