Rebellious Minds: Secular and Religious Beliefs within Māori and Cook Islands Māori in New Zealand

Hear from two intriguing speakers on trends in religious beliefs among Māori and Cook Island Māori in New Zealand in this conversation produced as part of the Stout Research Centre’s Rebellious Minds seminar series. Historian Dr Steven Loveridge talks with Te Henare, a leading voice in the Māori Atheists and Freethinkers group Atuakore, and Arama Tairea, a postgraduate scholar at Victoria University of Wellington. The conversation considers their insights and private opinions, explores changing patterns in religious and spiritual beliefs and asks what wider implications these changes may hold for communities and cultural identities.