Byron Rangiwai

Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Manawa, Ngāti Porou

Ngāti Whare



Byron Rangiwai's research interests include Māori development, iwi and hapū history, and theology.

Biographical sources

  • Email correspondence 27 July 2018

    Non-fiction

  • Rangiwai, B. (2011). ‘Race’ and the politics of land loss: Colonising discourses for Patuheuheu and Ngāti Haka. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal of Indigenous Pacific Issues, 4 (1), 40-96. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/112
  • Rangiwai, B. (2011). Te Umutaoroa, Patuheuheu and Ngāti Haka: Towards a prophetic model for unity and transformation. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal of Indigenous Pacific Issues, 4 (1), 1-32. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/110
  • Rangiwai, B. (2012). The potential of prophecy: Māori prophetism and community development. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal of Indigenous Pacific Issues, 1(1), Special Edition 1, 69-85. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/96
  • Rangiwai, B. (2017). The critical theory of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 10(1), 194-240. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/165
  • Rangiwai, B. (2017). Māori prophetic movements as sites of political resistance: A case study. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 10(1), 130-192. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/160
  • Rangiwai, B. (2017). Te Umutaoroa – the slow-cooking earth oven: A case study of intergenerational transference. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 10(1), 241- 275 . Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/168
  • Rangiwai, B. (2018). Atuatanga. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 11(1), 222-224. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/209
  • Rangiwai, B. (2018). The Atuatanga model: A methodology for researching Māori theology. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 11(1), 181-194. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/191/164
  • Rangiwai, B. (2018). “God is…” : A personal theology based on stories from my grandmother. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 11(1), 171-172. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/179/159
  • Rangiwai, B. (2018). “Hell… unless they repent of their sins and turn to God”: The problem of Bible translation and the potential impacts of Israel Folau’s comments on Māori and Pasifika minority sexualities. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 11(1), 250-282. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/214
  • Rangiwai, B. (2018). Hereditary entanglement - whakapapa and genealogical locatedness in Māori research: A researcher’s personal experience. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 11(1), 139-170. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/177/158
  • Rangiwai, B. (2018). The impacts of contemporary embalming practices on tikanga Māori. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 11(1), 229-249. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/213
  • Rangiwai, B. (2018). Mixed-up theology. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 11(1), 175-176. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/184/161
  • Rangiwai, B. (2018). My emerging theology. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 11(1), 337-365. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/231
  • Rangiwai, B. (2018). “Stories are knowledge, and knowledge is literature”: Viewing and re-viewing sites/cites of mātauranga Māori as an alternative to traditional Western literature reviews. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 11(1), 489-492. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/229
  • Rangiwai, B. (2018). Syncretism in Māori theology. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 11(1), 177-180. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/186/162
  • Rangiwai, B. (2018). Tangihanga. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 11(1), 173-174. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/182/160
  • Rangiwai, B. (2018). Te Umutaoroa: A model for Patuheuheu hapū development. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 11(1), 21-100. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/176
  • Rangiwai, B. (2018). Te Umutaoroa: A Patuheuheu research model. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 11(1), 1-20. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/169/153
  • Reviews

  • Rangiwai, B. (2018). A reflection on Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 11(1), 493-497. Retrieved from: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/230
  • Rangiwai, B. (2018). Reflections on The Book of Mormon musical: Flirtations with Mormon theology. Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 11(1), 283-318. Retrieved: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/215
  • Theses

  • Rangiwai, B. (2010). The effects of racism on Māori land loss: Colonising discourses for Te Patuheuheu and Ngāti Haka. Unpublished master’s thesis. Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, Whakatāne, New Zealand.
  • Rangiwai, B. (2015). Ko au ko Te Umutaoroa, ko Te Umutaoroa ko au: Toward a Patuheuheu Hapū Development Model. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. Retrieved from: http://hdl.handle.net/10292/8851