The Last Heathen

The Last Heathen

:"The Shark God redirects here. For the 1949 film, see Omoo-Omoo, the Shark God.""The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia" is a book by Charles Montgomery, published in Canada by Douglas and McIntyre in 2004. In 2006, it was published by HarperCollins as "The Shark God" in the United States.

"The Last Heathen" is the autobiographical account of the author in his journey to Melanesia, following in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, Bishop Henry Montgomery, and to study the effect of his great-grandfather's religion on the people. Montgomery traveled to Melanesia expecting to find a volatile mixture of the tribal, pagan religion and Christianity. He found a comfortable hybrid instead, the two religions living in harmony. The book details his journey as well as his discoveries, from an atheistic point of view.

The book won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction in 2005. The book has also won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize.

External links

* [http://www.thecharlestaylorprize.ca/2005/winner2005.htm Charles Taylor Prize]
* [http://www.joewiebe.com/books/last_heathen.htm Book Review by Joe Wiebe]


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