Talk:Māori religion

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I think that more research needs to be done on this page. If anyone knows the creation myth for the Maori religion, please post it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by ZainabLove (talk • contribs)

Oh totally - this article doesnt begin to cover the subject, and one day some one will expand it with some decent info. In the meantime, the creation myth is at Rangi and Papa. Kahuroa 05:29, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I think a distinction needs to be made between 'traditional Maori religion' and 'religions followed by Maori'. Its not clear from the article what Maori believe now. Perhaps when this is expanded the structure could be something like:

  • Traditional Maori religion (bulk of article)
  • How this was affected by the coming of Christianity
  • Maori Christian movements - Ringatu, Pai Marire etc (brief explanation, and links)
  • Traditional Maori religion today (ie most Maori don't follow the old religion but many still pay attention to tapu and so forth) --Helenalex 05:14, 15 February 2007 (UTC)


More information on why this: "Māori enthusiastically embraced Christianity and its concepts and adapted them to their culture" -happened would be good. :) 125.238.90.252 11:12, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

I undid a recent change to the categories since I am not convinced that the change was well meant, given that it was made during a minor spate of irritating small changes. Kahuroa 06:08, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Religion in New Zealand

I discovered a short article about changes in religion in the NZ census and wondered why such an article existed with no major page on religion in NZ. So I changed the name and fleshed it out a little. It now includes a summary (which I copied from here), but this needs to be rewritten. Maybe someone who works on this page (Kahuroa?) can improve it a little. Richard001 04:20, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Edited it a bit. This article here is deficient - it mentions nothing of Māori christian religions such as Ratana, Hauhauism, the prophets of the 19th and early 20th centuries and so on. Kahuroa 08:20, 16 September 2007 (UTC)